CHT prices

[johnnyb]

Is it me or are classic hand tool prices for used stuff beyond reason. Especially for lie nielsen. I guess there making a mark up plus price to the seller. Make ray illes et al seem cut price. It's a very bizarre mart imho.

 

[Eshmiel]

Is it me or are classic hand tool prices for used stuff beyond reason. Especially for lie nielsen. I guess there making a mark up plus price to the seller. Make ray illes et al seem cut price. It's a very bizarre mart imho.

There's been a fetish and a feeding frenzy in the LN market for some years now. It seemed to start post-Covid, possibly because the LN production rate dropped and never seemed to recover.

 

[Blackswanwood]

They seem to be able to find buyers willing to pay the prices.

Someone questioned their sale price for a limited edition set of Clifton Planes on Instagram. The reply was that it was a commission sale so I guess the seller set the price.

 

[johnnyb]

That explains it. A covid blip that's affected the company permanently causing a used market frenzy. Its strange how things knock on. Not unlike the puppy dog market.which has now returned to normal. My perception is coloured by not really liking there a2 blades. But actually there value lies in there slightly exclusive nature. Heirloom indeed.
Veritas production seems to have got back to normal. Maybe the effect of tariffs will cause those guys problems eventually, hopefully not

 

[johnnyb]

There's a used dovetail marker for £195 on ebay...really.

 

[Terry - Somerset]

The price of some premium woodworking brands has little to do with function.

They are not lacking in capability, they have merely assumed a status and price which far exceeds their function - they are essentially woodworking baubles to adorn a well equipped workshop.

Owners are not by association supremely skilled woodworkers (some may be), they generally evidence much deeper than average pockets.

This behaviour is no different to other premium products - cars, watches, wine, clothing, etc - whose owners take pleasure in owning/using/wearing, the product, admire the quality and craftsmanship, or simply want to demonstrate they have what it takes to acquire same.

The rest of us look on with either envy at their good fortune, or in bewilderment that anyone would contemplate paying 2 or 3 times the price for that which would anyway do precisely the same job.