Gedore made the mistake of renaming their cheap brand (Carolus) to Gedore Red a couple of years ago. So now you have lots of cheap tools with the Gedore name on the market, devaluating the good name of their premium tools.

I did the same

I use gedore wrenches alot and they hold up better than mist.other brands I’ve come across and that’s using pipes and dead blow hammers on them to get the job done on trucks and equipment failure zero cant say that for many other wrenches ive put to early retirement

Hi! Elora is a fantastic brand. Family owned focused on top quality only steel. There are ratchet wrenches from one generation back that still work every day on the shops! The same stands for Stahlwille. Top are also PB Swiss and felo. NWS are excellent but also knipex. Knipex is N1 and all rival are compared to it.
Wera has excellent quality, However; I heard they are built in Chequia now…

For anyone coming across this in the future, beware of NWS fakes out there sold on Amazon and AliExpress. They are Chinese knock-offs and use the brand name SMU, which if you turn the NWS logo upside down… They actually say PIANO POWER and SUZHOU (China) instead of MADE IN GERMANY and SOLINGEN (Germany) above the logo. They look similar, but they are considerably lower quality. Buy from a known Euro tool dealer online and you won’t have any issues with knock off NWS tools.

While I’d also rather they be made in France, I’d be willing to bet that it wouldn’t make any difference.

After 1960 europe and norh america start to sale everything.

They brought false capitalism to the West.
In the past, everything had an identity, but now if you talk about identity, I will accuse you of racism.
Every famous and high-quality brand is produced in the original country, but now everything is mostly produced in China and Taiwan. American, German, Italian, French, and English brands are produced in these two countries.
The meaning of writing “made in America” ​​or “made in England” means that this product must be produced in the land of America or England with the knowledge and skills of the workers and specialists of these countries.
But today, because they made money the main priority for Europe and America, the only brand of America and Europe is the same name.
When the owner of a famous American brand is an Asian capitalist, and all the products of this product are produced in Asian countries, and not even an American is involved in its production.
Ford, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz brands have American, Italian and German identities, even the names of these brands were taken from the names of the founders of these factories.
In the past, everything in Europe and America had a European and American identity, and Europe was the producer.
But today, the people of Europe have turned into consumers, and people who try to preserve their identity and patriotism are called racists.
My grandfather had a German tool 70 years ago, which he used for 30 years, and his grandfather’s promotion of its quality made many people buy that tool.
But now that brand no longer exists, and instead of the original German brand, a number of multinational brands owned by non-German and non-European capitalists have been created, and the workers are not even German.
Europe and America must regain control of their countries and restore credibility and quality. I hope that the policy governing Europe, which aims to destroy the brands and products of European workers, will disappear so that we can see real American and European products again.

I use them in work quite a bit (hydraulic manufacturing). While I don’t have a bad word to say about them and the quality feels solid , I would rather spend a tiny bit more and buy wera or knipex for my personal tools. Take that with a serious grain of salt, I love tools, they’re a hobby for me in addition to being my work tools. Gedore tools will absolutely get the job done and build to a high standard.

Nah look at YouTube tests…meh and meh. i wanted to buy their combination spanners and they failed. Seems gedore is MID- brand at best

You forgot king dick tools made in England

Plastering and bricklaying tools

Excellent quality

Great quality axes, cracking steel that really holds an edge. I’ve used several of their axes and they’ve all been excellent.

Most widely known for chainsaws, but also make a related range of gardening / forestry tools.

Their forged bypass secateurs are fantastic, at a very reasonable price too for a tool for life. Absolutely bulletproof, the way a tool should be made.

One of the last remaining toolmakers in the UK, manufactured in the UK

Goto brand for bricklayers and masons line pins, plugging chisels, bolsters, cold chisels, etc.

Their plugging chisels are fantastic, fully forged and beefy, just like how they used to be made. Side by side comparison with other chisels blows them out of the water.

It’s not the throwaway society that was the end of the once might British manufacturing sector – it was the willingness of company management to shift manufacturing overseas where labour was cheaper, and the willingness of various governments to allow them to do that.

If you’re in a fully peaceful world with open international trade, it doesn’t really matter that your socket set is made under licence in Taiwan or China – it’s when things start looking dark that you really rue the lack of strategic industries.

And of course, those economic experts espousing the benefits of globalisation never did work out how expensive it is to support regions that have had their main employers disappear; a few years support, some announcements about retraining, and then the regions were left to collapse.

I’m glad they worked out well for you!

Well, it took a bit, but they arrived yesterday!

The package arrived looking like it made the trip by horseback and sail power, but the screwdrivers were undamaged once I cleaned them off (crushed and torn exterior box, tattered packaging inside and everything covered in a thick layer of dust).

Once I cleaned them off a bit, my initial impressions were pretty positive. That IS a nice handle shape!

The ball-shaped bump part way down the handle feels great. It contours with where my pointer and middle finger fall in a normal grip – and is equally useful when I adjust my hand to the end of the driver to spin it one-handed with my fingers.

The rubbery part of the handle is very grippy and provides just the right amount of cushion without making the screwdriver feel mushy or imprecise. The butt end is smooth plastic – good for spinning in your palm. The rounded square overall shape with the two-sided flats on the business-end of the handle does a good job preventing the screwdriver from rolling on flat surfaces.

I ran around the house with the #2 Phillips to give them a test run – tightening door knobs, cabinet hardware and the like to get a feel for them. So far so good!

The tips are very sharp. I thought the black surface coating was wearing off, but after scratching at the shiny parts with my fingernail I realized it was just material transfer from the screws. No visible wear so far (which I wouldn’t expect considering I just started using it, but I thought that coating was purely visual when it appeared to wear so quickly).

The hex bolsters are neat. I might need to pull out a magnifying glass to confirm, but it looks like they are a separate piece added to the shaft. They are a darker color metal than the shaft with a crisp transition between them. That’s neither here nor there for function, but I thought it was interesting how they must be manufactured. Everything is sharp and precise.

I was trying to find fault to see if there was anything I thought could be better. So far the only “faults” are just preference considerations though. The hex part of the Phillips driver shafts is wider than the tips – that might prevent access to a recessed fastener. They aren’t much larger though.

When a screwdriver has a bolster, I might prefer a through-shaft over a lanyard hole. Again, that’s just a preference though, not a faulty design. I don’t use a lanyard on my screwdrivers – I might use the hole to put another screwdriver through for extra torque in a T-handle configuration, but that’s not needed if there’s a bolster. In that case, I might like to have the option of hammering the handle.

Last thing worth mentioning – no tip markings on the end of the handle. I like that when storing screwdrivers vertically in a rack and it might be handy for a tool belt too. They are color coded and different sizes though – and there is a mark on the side of the handles.

That is all I’ve come up with so far. I’m excited to put them to work in a real project. Thanks for the recommendation and the link Stuart! I wouldn’t have tried them otherwise.

And Gedore???

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