If there is one thing we can’t stand in Meadville, it’s seeing people shell out good money for cheaply made, poor-quality tools. In our view, you should be able to feel a tool’s quality when it’s in your hand, be able to bang it around while working and then throw it into a drawer or tool chest with no consequences. After a few days, months – even years – it should still perform just like the day you bought it. 

Poor-quality tools made cheaply overseas are everywhere. Once the tools are packaged and displayed on hardware store and home improvement center shelves, it seems like the only distinguishing characteristic is price. Who hasn’t looked at the wide selection and thought, “What’s the difference?”

The difference becomes all too clear when you’re taking another trip to the hardware store after rounding off a nut, stripping a screw or busting your knuckles. Be honest: How many times have you been snookered by the empty promises of cheap knock-offs in the middle of a must-get-done job? Once? Twice? Too many to count?

At CHANNELLOCK^®, we believe it’s time to declare independence from unreliable tools. It’s time to vote for quality. To help you get started, from now until July 4, we’re bringing back our Red, White and CHANNELLOCK BLUE^® Sweepstakes. Simply enter the contest by clicking here, and you could win a five-piece CHANNELLOCK^® tool roll that future generations will rely on.

The five-piece tool roll includes the 10” 430^® tongue and groove plier, our new 8” 368 high-leverage linemen’s plier, the 7.5” 357 end cutting plier, the 8” 3017 long nose plier and the 6.5” 412 V-Jaw plier. All five tools are made in the USA from die-forged, high-carbon, C1080 steel, include an electronic coating for rust prevention and feature CHANNELLOCK BLUE^® comfort grips. It all adds up to quality you can feel when you hold the tools in your hands.

We’ll pick a winner every other week until July 4. For sweepstakes rules, click here. 

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Michele M. King

Communications & Training Manager

Channellock, Inc.