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2023 Holiday Gift Guide

2023 Holiday Tool Gift Guide This year’s TBB’s 2023 Holiday Gift Guide will help you pick out the perfect gift(s) for that hard-to-buy-for tradesperson in your life. Especially if you’re shopping for someone who just wants tools but already seems to have too many. Or that special person talks about tools and hardware even when […]

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Festool Outdoor Systainer

Festool Enters the World of Outdoor Adventures Weather your enthusiast or are looking too treat yourself, or you know one,  Festool has you covered with their outdoor themed Festool Systainer. This new Systainer package features two insulated stainless steel Festool branded mugs and a camouflage-style Festool hat.  It is also compatible with Festool’s well-known Systainer […]

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Milwaukee NEW TOOLS for 2022

Milwaukee Releases NEW TOOLS for 2022 We recently attended the 2022 Milwaukee Pipeline event to preview the recent tools releases and updates for Qtr. 2. Most of these tools will come out in August or October 2022. Below is a sampling of just some of the products released by Milwaukee! M12 – New Generation 3 […]

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2021 ToolBoxBuzz Subscriber Survey

Please Take Our Reader Survey Hey guys, Rob Robillard here from Tool Box Buzz. While I am usually here to share some information with you — be it tool reviews, or carpentry tips, or DIY projects — today, I want to flip the tables. Today, I want to hear from you. Why? Because everything we do […]

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2020 Holiday Tool Gift Guide

2020 Holiday Tool Gift Guide Every year we put out a holiday tool gift guide to help you pick out a gift for that hard to buy for tradesperson in your life or maybe a gift for yourself. All of the tools in this year’s guide are ones that are in my job site kit […]

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What It Means to Gift a Tool

What do you build when you give a tool as a gift? The gift giving season is fully underway and the pressures to give a memorable and thoughtful token is the battle that many of us face. For tradesmen, contractors, woodworkers, hobbyists, homeowners, parents, etc… tools are often the de facto gift of choice. However, […]

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S31 CAT Construction Phone Review

CAT S31 Rugged Smartphone Not too long ago, when I went to work at commercial constructions sites, one of the first things I put on with my high visibility vest was a job site two-way radio. These communication systems were job specific with a set of crystals that enabled all of the radios to communicate […]

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Promoting The Trades

EMNARI Youth Remodeling Career Day In August of this year, we, at Toolboxbuzz, were approached by the Eastern Massachusetts National Association of the Remodeling Industry (EMNARI), to see if we would be interested in participating in the second annual Youth Remodeling Career Day at the Bolton Fairgrounds.  At Toolboxbuzz we know that there is a huge […]

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Tool Box Buzz Survey

  Hey Guys, We’re big on continuous improvement here at Tool Box Buzz. We want to deliver content that’s timely and relevant to the work you do. Quite often we have discussions amongst ourselves about what is going well and what we could do better. There are three areas that help enlighten us for these […]

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STIHL Dealer Experience

STIHL Dealer Experience About a month ago, I walked into my local Stihl dealer, C&S Supply, looking for a new chainsaw. I do a lot of custom carpentry with local wood. Local as in the tree is from the property where it’s being installed. I do all the felling and initial milling with a Stihl […]

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