Cost of space, labor, supplies, lighting, furniture, tape guns, foam peanuts, insurance, utilities - it all adds up. Even so, a shipping department is not cheap to operate. As to shipping, maybe it did indeed cost less than half of what you paid to for the actual freight. I'd be more than happy to pay more for a high quality tool that will work perfectly and last, than get one that "works good enough" for a bargain price. I think their tools are too cheap on average. This leaves those who would be willing to pay a fair price for truly professional-grade tools having to either search elsewhere, or often make or have made their own custom specialty tools. They generally seem to stop far short of ideal tool design and construction however, less they risk making them too expensive and loosing sales in the wider low-budget market.
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They will make many tools and parts good enough to function okay for the occasional hobbyist, and maybe for light duty professional use. Similar cases seem repeated through so many of the tools they carry. It's a shame, as now I have to source many of my nut files elsewhere in order to get the professional quality tools I really prefer. In the example of nut files mentioned here, I'm actually disappointed that StewMac no longer stocks the Grobet joint edge files they used to carry for nuts, and instead switched to a cheaper import version years back to better compete in the low-budget-driven market. Not to be critical, but it seems to me that the Home Depot, Walmart, Harbor Freight generation has come to expect stuff for cheaper than what I think may be reasonable, and appear more than willing to to accept a "good enough" compromise in quality, just so long as the price is right. I don't know, I'd say StewMac is pretty cheap on most things - too cheap if you ask me. Well, I guess I should quit belly achin' and go get started on some of those tweaks I've been putting off.
Oddly, I think spending $13 for ground shipping for something that was not fragile, in a container that couldn't weigh half a pound, chapped my shorts more than paying $140 for four double-edged nut files and a quarter-round fret crowning file!
In fact, they only offer eight slotting files and six of them are basically sized for a. I checked Warmoth first and they were about 15 or 20% cheaper on files but didn't have all of the ones I needed. Results varied.Īnyway, now that I've spent the $140 (plus $13+ shipping for ground shipping a box that couldn't weigh a pound) it occurs to me that someone here might have a great source for special tools like nut files from a supplier that isn't quite so proud of their stuff (I've bought other things from StewMac, too, but only when I couldn't find any other source). In the past I've used everything from a small pocket knife with ridges filed across it (actually worked pretty good for treble strings) to welder's tip cleaners, to 600-grit wet-or-dry paper around the edge of a credit card. I've needed them for years but wasn't able to convince myself to lay out $140 for five small files until I'd collected a sufficiently large collection of boogered up guitar nuts. I finally broke down and ordered some nut slotting files and a fret crowning file from StewMac.
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