I finally got my set of 13 HSS forstners from LV today.
http://tinyurl.com/y6nw7gkp Upon opening I was stunned to find that the box
screamed out in bold print "made in China". I can't say that LV made me
aware of this as the source of manufacture. I looked again, didn't see
anything, but am not claiming misrepresentation. It was my fault for not
looking for that. So why am I against "made in China", well I'm not really
but I haven't yet felt comfortable with Chinese industrial manufacture of
tools. I'm sure there are good ones, but I haven't been impressed as of yet.

So the big question, has anybody used the LV HSS forstners and are they as
good as LV claims or are these just worthless metallic junk - like the
cheapy no name set I got 10 years ago from who knows where? I'm sure I can
return them to LV, but if they are a pretty good set, then I have no
overriding reason to do so.

Thanks
Scott G in Duluth GA

PS - wow 3 posts to OT in one day...pretty good record for a guy hiding
under the porch in the dark