Those pliers look very nice! I wonder who makes these for Matco? And are they made in USA?
Thanks. They are Mac, actually. I'm not sure, but to be brutally honest with you: I would look elsewhere. Some background: The friend in question works at the same shop I used to and several guys had them including the owner and my friend. They are decent pliers, but the quality leaves a lot to be desired compared to most truck brand offerings. They are Chinese made, I believe. They sure as heck aren't USA. Anyway, the big problem are that they aren't very precise, the fit and finish is fairly poor, and they develop excessive play after a while. But, the biggest problem is that the manufacturing tolerances are all over the place. Better off buying Channellock, except they don't make the real long ones, unfortunately. If all you work on is cars it's not so bad. The set also comes with a long nose straight plier and a long diagonal cutter, and the small hose
plier but he knows I'm good on that front, so he left them out. The duckbills are pretty good I now have two sets of those. The set was about $100 on special, so it's not bad if you don't have many pliers yet. But I would rather spend my coin on individual pieces of higher quality, since there's a fair amount of redundancy in this set. Not meaning to sound negative, Knipex has spoiled me.
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