Neo, I personally can sympathizes with you on tooling, the number of make, design, manufacture and models are mind boggling. It would seem that there is no one place to purchase all one may need but as stated in previous post MSC is hard to beat, they have specific seemingly knowledgeable toll free support and always seem to ship full orders, that is a real plus as secondary shipping from other suppliers can raise the cost/time factor considerably. Here is another tip, if your friends (where do they all come from)
want to use my old manual mill I hand then the made in China Stuff. I have also learned to never expect much from Chinese quality, it is not that they cannot make top quality but there market is for price conscience buyers, we have all bit on these haven’t we.
No more cutters from China for me.
I also ask and read the experts here on the board what they would suggest or mention and then listen to them.
EDIT:
The only place Cheap comes before Quality or Success before work is in the dictionary.
