I live in a small town in the boonies of Saskatchewan so I feel you Tyger.
I HATE HATE HATE HATE Chinese tire. Awful service and crap from china overpriced
and not even the stuff of big city CT's here at ours.

I got really lucky and found a great old 1x42 Norton grinder. It is loud and scary
and once in a while throws a belt but it is fantastic compared to the little harbour freight ones.

A good example of how bad we get screwed as canadians is my mom wants a nice kitchen aid mixer. It is 349$ but you get 40$ off at Amazon. Here in Canada
it is 700$ at Sears. Now you would think that we could simply buy it from Amazon but they are not allowed to sell it to Canadians not by a law but because Kitchenaid tells them to so SEARs can continue ripping us off. I am cleverer than that though so we bought one from Amazon and had it sent to my bestus buddy in the US who has then shipped it to us. Even with 70$ shipping and another 30$ duty and tax is is still 300$ cheaper.

Free market my bum

Even worse is the Can Am quad my cousin bought is 5 grand cheaper in the US and the [censored] thing is made in CANADA! It is not the dollar either as ours is worth more than the US dollar right now.

Free markets are really only an advantage to big business. They send our jobs to mexico while having monopolistic deals like the one between kitchenaid and Sears.

I just realized I went ranting way off topic on my own thread.

In the interest in getting back on topic i can tell you guys about the 99 year old Ross bayonet i got that was a broken ball of rust. I ground off the broken
bayonet lugs and rust ,made new maple scales and re did the edge and finish.
I am almost finished and just need to do the edge on the new edge pro and I will be sending it out for a new sheath. Opps I forgot I need to do some finish work and varnish or linseed oil on the handle as well.