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Depends on the hobby. If it's something I'm going to use regularly or where the quality of the tool directly affects the quality of the experience or the finished result, then I try to get something at the
inflectionpoint of the price curve where the tangent is around one. As an example, I won't buy Lie-Nielsen or even Veritas hand planes, but I won't buy some vintage Soviet shit off the local equivalent of Craigslist or anything from the DIY big box stores either. But Dick or the house brands of two dedicated local carpentry stores are usually at the right price point.If it's some random one-off task, I go the Hazard Fraught route and buy the cheapest tool that will do the job. Right now I am on vacation in the mountains and I've bought literally the cheapest hiking shoes I could find. They and my feet held up well.
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