MikeKrueger


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Re: Lie-Nielsen Toolworks and Woodcraft part ways

I have dropped more $ than I care to admit with both LN and Woodcraft, so far no complaints on either, but this LN/WC change is concerning because of how LN is explaining it. I assume that we the unwashed masses will never know the real story, but reality is that LN is now mainly an online/catalog situation and it would take them a while and a ton of work to build up a national presence of the sort (hands-on retail) they are describing. Seems to me that somebody getting into hand tools buys what they can touch. Down the road comes the lust for the higher end stuff to fill in the gaps and replace the initial buys. LN needs to keep the focus on that later-stage crowd. Hopefully the story they are offering now is just so much positioning while initial reactions blow over.