Skil Power Cutter

Skil recently released the power cutter and is advertising it pretty heavily. It's got many interesting uses, and this innovative tool is great year-round, indoors and out.

Cutting landscaping fabric is a great use this time of year. Scissors can easily dull while trying to cut this stuff, and knives are dangerous, so the auto-sharp blade on the power cutter is a great option here.

Great for Birthdays, Holidays, weddings and other gifting events, the power cutter makes easy work of wrapping paper, ribbons and boxes.

Excellence in cutting fabric means it's great for crafts and hobbies like sewing and quilting. Scissors can tire you out when doing large projects, so the power cutter is the perfect addition to any sewing room.

Outdoors, you'll find it a great choice for cutting vinyl siding, tar paper and more.

Of course, we can't show you everything, but some other uses include cutting carpet, plastic packaging, fabric, leather, paper, cardboard, vinyl siding, vinyl flooring, wallpaper and many others. Use your imagination and you'll find plenty of justification to buy this handy tool.

Limited Time Only - Penny Shipping

For the end of December and the month of January, we're offering penny shipping on all orders over $99 and totaling under 75 lbs. Depending on how this program goes, the end date could be sooner or it could be later. We'll just have to see how it goes, but for the meantime, enjoy this year-end special from your friends at ToolBarn.com.

Hitachi Miter Saw - Perfect Holiday idea.

It's almost a crime that we're selling the Hitachi C10FSB for $399 when our competitors are at least $50 higher. What's even worse is that Hitachi is picking up ground shipping charges through the holidays, meaning $399.01 can get it delivered to your door. That's a great deal, since a 60 pound saw is pretty expensive to ship. The only thing we can't do is gift wrap it and put it under the tree for you.

This is a great miter saw with all the features you could want in a 10" dual compound sliding miter saw. Ok, so that's a big name for this tool. Basically, that says it has all the bells a whistles that you could possibly want except a laser, and you can always add a laser for $30 by buying the Irwin add-on miter saw laser, and then you'll get a free ($4 shipping) Irwin Marathon blade by mail for the saw to top it off.

Hitachi will even let you try this out risk free. If you don't like it, just send it back and they'll let us issue a full refund for the tool. What better way to do some great bargain shopping this holiday season? I may have to show my mother this saw. Oh, that reminds me, Dad - don't read this post.

Limited Supplies - Stanley Socket Sets

For a very limited time, we've got fabulous pricing on a 20 piece mechanics socket set, a 20 piece 1/2" drive socket set, a 37 piece socket set and a 55 piece 1/2" and 3/8" drive kit. Prices start under $20 and don't get over $40 for these, so grab them while they're hot. I've already picked up a couple of the 37 piece for myself - one for that car and one for the house. These make great gifts for the upcoming holidays, not to mention they're just all around good quality tools.

If you're in need of a set of socket wrenches, make sure to check out all the deals we have right now. Even if you don't need them (like me), it's still hard to pass some of these up.

Easter is approaching

As Easter is approaching, I was reminded of some of the easter eggs we have embedded in the search on our site. As products get added, we have a sense of humor and add in a few silly terms. So, we're going to have an easter egg hunt right here on my blog. I'll give a couple of examples to start things out.

Red R2 Unit
another example

These are, of course, just silly searches that we figured would amuse people if they stumbled across them. There are plenty of other examples, but it'll take some creativity on your part to uncover them. Go ahead and see what you can locate, then leave a comment here with your findings. We have one that has been identified as the grand prize winner, which is an all expense paid trip to... Matt tells me that's not in the budget, so I guess it'll be some colorful "Easter-Eggish" ToolBarn.com Stress Balls. Just make sure you're using a registered account (free to set up through blogger.com) and have an IM contact in your profile if you want to be eligible.

Go ahead and get started with the form below:

Oh, and contest runs until the end of April, 2006 and is open to all legal US residents, blah blah blah, yada yada yada. Since the prize isn't worth 1000's of dollars, we'll mail them wherever you like addressed to whomever you like, even Fido. Just make sure you use a registered account so we can track who the winner is, which will be first one to find our "specially selected" easter egg. Good luck and happy searching.

Christmas Day.

It's Christmas Day. That seems like a great day to say thank you to our loyal customers for making this our best holiday season yet. Hopefully you got what you wanted, but if not we still have some inventory left. Oh, and when you go to assemble that great new toy you or your loved ones got this holiday season and realize the tool you need is broken, make sure to head over to Tool Parts Direct to get what you need to fix it.

Enjoy the holiday, and we'll talk to some of you via phone on Tuesday I'm sure.