It does matter what country something is made, I take it you’ve never been down sized or outsourced.. Just ask the guys over at the former vice grip plant in DeWitt Nebraska if it matters where vice grips are produced. If you don’t care for more than your own wallet or that YOU get a good tool and could care less whether your fellow countryman has a job or can afford your services, fine go buy that foreign tool.
Or maybe you need to look at all the reasons they can maximize profits for their corporate parents. No environmental regulation enforcements. They are free to dump all their toxins in our oceans and to emit as many noxious gases as they please into our air. Pollution knows no boundaries.
Need I mention, their records on treatment and safety of their workers or supporting a government that opposes all the freedoms we enjoy.

Hitachi: 5 Years (Limited) - 90 day coverage on driver blade and o-rings
Does not cover malfunctions resulting from normal wear, neglect, abuse, accident. Excludes normal wear Items - Bumpers, driver blades, o-rings, pistons, piston rings, negator springs, air inlet casing.

Senco: 1-2 Years (Limited) - Excludes: o-rings, seals, and driver blades.
Senco will replace any tool destroyed by “An act of God” within the normal warranty period.

Paslode: 90 Days (Limited) - Excludes: Bumpers, o-rings, driver blades, and piston rings.

Bosch: 1 Year - Covers ALL components. No exclusions. 1 - Year Warranty, 30 - Day Money Back Guarantee - 1 - Year Service Protection Plan! Bosch will cover ALL normal wear items.

So, as you can see the Bosch Pneumatic line will covered by the “Best Warranty Plan” along with some of the industries best innovations in Pneumatic Nail Guns!

We all know what “Limited” means…

Lets just say I have a good relationship with my local rep.

I have one on order to add to my tool collection, I picked it up for $315.

It DOESN’T MATTER what “country” something is made in,
and every one of us knows it:

Have YOU ever worked with a crew that cared about integrity/quality of work,
in your country?

Have YOU ever worked with a crew that cared ZERO about integrity/quality of work,
in your country?

http://www.MEC.ca/ has a simple policy:
they employ people,
in *any* country,
who are paid fair wages,
who care about *making* it right,
and NO-one here can convince me that no-one,
whatsoever,
in China, cares about quality work.

IT DEPENDS ON THE CREW, NOT THE COUNTRY.

However, the main reason corporations prefer to employ Chinese/Indians is because they can be paid what, to us, would be dirt,
and get selling the product for better profit
( or even be *able* to sell, at all, with customers being so
“I don’t care if the makers even WERE paid: I want it cheaper”
attitude ).

I proudly buy whatever is made right, that I require,
no matter where it was made,
and have been burned by makers/workers in every country I’ve ever
( indirectly, even ) dealt with.

Including crews I’ve worked with, or for, in my hometown(s).

If it’s Bosch in charge of the making, the process, and the quality-control, I trust it:
no matter where it’s made: they value the reputation they earned.

Good work is worthy. Period.

Cheers,

- Captain Obvious (:

1640VS FINE-CUT SAW USA
1773AK CONCRETE SURFACING GRINDER GERMANY
12524-03 CORDLESS HAMMER DRILL KIT MEXICO
1365 14INCH ABRASIVE CUTOFF MACHINE GERMANY
1775E TUCKPOINTER GRINDER GERMANY

They make awesome stuff, them and festool. But they know they make good tools and charge accordingly
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I like Bosch stuff too. I will be very disappointed if I have to pay top dollar for something made in China though.

I can also tell you that being too light was something they took into account when designing the gun with framers who are going to use it all day in mind. Plus they did a great deal of user testing in the field with it to get the weight right. I thought it felt good. Not being a pro framer myself though [shrug] I can’t speak for the guys that might use it 10 hours a day… at least not till we get our hands on one.

Being lighter, I wonder if recoil will become a problem.