Tools for rural living.
Jen -- hide the credit cards...
Kevin Kelly runs a site (on the BlogRoll) called
Cool Tools.
He updates a couple times/week and these are useful tools for living. An online Whole Earth catalog as it were.
Today,
he pointed to a place I never heard of before. I went to their site and started drooling profusely.
They carry stuff we can use!
The place I'm talking about is
Gemplers
Their prices are quite a bit higher than other online sources -- I'll use the Felco #2 pruner for an example -- a basic and very well made tool.
Gemplers charges
$37.95.
The FelcoStore charges
$31.26
For chuckles, I looked up Smith and Hawken -- a high-end mail order and retail "Gentleman Gardner" store and they only charge
$35.20.
What I think Gemplers will be good for is for those esoteric items that we simply cannot find anywhere else and also as a resource to look up possible manufacturers for a specific need and then locate the same item elsewhere cheaper.
Very good online resource though!
Posted by DaveH at April 20, 2005 9:07 PM
I found your blog when searching for info on Gempler's. I think you might have visited Smith & Hawken when they were having a sale or something, because now their price is $44. Felco too - now their price is $38.34. You can double-check the links just to make sure I'm not mistaken, but I just thought I'd let you know.