Spent $80 on a bone folder expecting junk, got a tool I use every day now

I ordered a cheap bone folder off Amazon thinking I'd replace it in a month. It's been six months and this thing is still going strong. The edges are smooth and it burnishes paper better than anything I've tried. I mostly use it for creasing covers and smoothing down spines on my rebinds. Anyone else had good luck with budget tools or did I just get lucky?

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parker22410d ago

Spent $30 on a chisel from a hardware store that I was sure would chip after one use. Three years later it's still my go-to for cleaning up book spines and trimming dowels. Had to sharpen it once but that's it. Figure sometimes the cheap stuff just works and nobody knows why. Maybe the factory in China accidentally made a good batch.

jordanm1910d ago

parker224 I had a buddy who picked up a $20 angle grinder from a flea market that looked like it survived a war. Thing was beat to hell, rust spots everywhere, but he's been using it for like 4 years to cut rebar and knock down welds. Only thing he did was swap out the grinding wheel once. Makes you wonder if some factory just had a good day and pumped out a bunch of tools that refuse to die. Probably the same kind of random luck that made your chisel last, just a lucky batch of metal or something.