All New Craftsman V Series! A Harbor Freight ICON Killer?! A Look At The New Tool Series Lineup.

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[spartus]

I'm always impressed with the quality of tools made in Taiwan. I hope Taiwan will be okay, they deserve independence.

[Hipsters_N_Hippies]

They needed to go with professional grade Tools. Craftsman was the affordable professional grade tool. Name one mechanic that doesn’t have something so they need to do something like this if the craftsman name is to go forward, it has to remain an affordable professional grade tool. Period.

[garretlewis]

👍 no skipping. I really hate it when you get a wrench set has skips.

[enrwidget]

This doesn’t feel like craftsman any longer. I was able to buy 99% of my craftsman tools directly from sears between 2017-18 and I must say I am happy I did. Got a lot of old stock usa made stuff and it’s way better than anything coming from Stanley

[charliebrown]

I think the key to Craftsman's success lies with their ability to force their retailers to enforce a standard return policy that is 123 easy.
1 bring in the broken tool and lay it on the counter, 2 no questions asked, 3 the clerk hands you a replacement.
Not 1234 not worth my time. 1 register the purchase, 2 email a request for a return authorization # 3 mail off broken tool, 4 wait for possible denial of satisfactory result.
The success of Sears Craftsman tools was as much Sears customer service as the tools themselves.

[madcratebuilder]

I still have most of the Craftsman wrenches from my 1971 101 piece set.

[kazriko]

IMO, Taiwan is on my list of countries that I'm equally comfortable buying from as the US. (Japan, Singapore, Canada, US, UK, Germany, Australia, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Israel, Taiwan, etc...) You pretty much know that you're getting decent quality when you're buying from those countries.

[lcar]

The big thing for me will be how Craftsman handles their warranty going forward. I've began buying Craftsman tools back in the 70s. If one broke, you brought it back and they gave you a new one. In the years leading up to the demise of Sears warranty replacement was horrible. I have started to buy some of the HF Icon tools. Fit and finish is nice and, while I have not had any break yet, others have said that HF just replaces any broken tools, no questions asked and no receipt needed. If Lowes etc honor the warranty like a true lifetime warranty, then maybe I will go back. Thank you for doing the video!

[josephklimchock]

As a 47 year mechanic, I hate about all internal head, allen head screws, bolts etc, due to most having too shallow a hole and thus rounding replacement screws are made with deeper holes, so these new style wrenches are on my list to 47 years at it and STILL buying mew tools!!!!

[TheEclecticHandyman]

As an old school Craftsman USA fan and collector, this was informative and interesting. Great job. I like the nod to the old V series USA manufactured tools from back in the day.

[kingsporttoolreview]

I haven't been a fan of the new Craftsman, but I Kinda gotta secretly admit that I have looked at that Craftsman 3000 Series tool boxes at least 10 times. am glad to see Craftsman name being brought back to respectability.

[captgraybush]

I will never buy craftsman again. My local Lowe's is very, very picky about the warranty. If the serial # on the broken tool doesnt match the serial # on the tool they sell then its a not happening and they direct to the number for craftsman. Even if the broken tool and new tool are identical in every way if the serial# don't match Lowe's wont warranty the tool out. I sold all my craftsman tools and bought Pittsburgh and Icon. Harbor Freight has no issue honoring their warranty.

[papilloncycles]

Love my old Craftsman pro wrenches from the early 90's

[ekonig]

Until Craftsman tools are made in the USA I will continue to purchase the best performing tools for my money. I don't know about you but when I purchase tools I am willing to pay more for tools made in the USA as long as it is a high-quality tool. Thanks for providing this review of the V series tools.

[EdAtoZ]

Mr Subaru, Lowes ran a small sale on the craftsman V wrenches, so spurred and got the 12pcs SAE craftsman V wrench set. Why simple I have owned the Facom 440 wrench set in metric for a good number of years. So now I look at it as if I have them is both measurement units. Conpairing the two set the thing that jumps out is the Craftsman's are shinier than the Facom and the feel is different, the Facom's feel like they are coated in Aluminum were the Craftsman feel more like the chrome on the Milwaukee wrenches. I would all most bet the wrenches are made in the same factory, . One more thing the Craftsman V SAE wrench set run from 1/4 to 15/16 but skips 13/16, but does come with 11/32, a some what odd thing to me.

[andygilbert]

I thought they looked familiar, I have the Facom 440 wrenches. I had to replace most of my day to day kit quickly about 15 years ago when my van was broken into. I went with Facom as that was what I could get locally in a hurry. (I’m in the UK) Not sure if they were still made in France then, but it was before Stanley bought them out. I did grow to like the wrenches, and am still using them today, they’re tough enough but not up to Snap-on quality. (Much cheaper though!) Those screwdrivers and ratchets look very like Facom too. They are OK and again I’m still using them but bought Snap-on again when I could afford it. I much prefer Snap-on ratchets in particular. I’ve never seen Craftsman tools over here so I doubt we’ll see these either. In fact many brands you folks have don’t make it over here. It’s ages since I’ve seen a MAC van, there’s no Harbor Freight, no Matco, and sadly there’s very little British tool industry left either.

[tylerrobbins]

A lot of the older guys like to say that craftsman is trash now that most of the tools aren’t made in the usa but honestly they’re still pretty good. I’ve been using all of their hand tools for about a year and the sockets and ratcheting wrench’s are very good. The only things I have broken so far are the ratchets and adapters (used an impact on non impact adapters lol) and with a lifetime warranty I just go in and swap it and it’s good

[carboumen]

Hi from spain. Nice wrenches you've got there. I've got my Facom OGV 440 series in the year 2008 and still like the first day

[ifitsnotbrokenfixit]

Having the Mac set. These look good for a go bag I do like the holder for them. Thanks for showing a side by side.

[diegofernandez]

If you're on a budget just buy Tekton. Great tools, great warranty. No brainier.