Grizzly, known for their hobby and industrial metalworking and woodworking tools, machinery, and related equipment, has announced a new arrangement with Home Depot.
Through the increased cooperation, for lack of a better way to put it, Grizzly tools will apparently be more visible on Home Depot’s online store, thanks to a new brand page.
I was able to find Home Depot’s new Grizzly brand page without too much trouble.
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In their post on social media, Grizzly said:
Grizzly Industrial now has a brand page on The Home Depot website. 🎉
Grizzly machines are now available on Homedepot.com. Order on-line and have Home Depot deliver to your home – or have it delivered to their local store for pick-up!
Join the Grizzly family and visit our Home Depot brand page to help us celebrate this HUGE achievement!
At this time, Home Depot’s Grizzly Tools page looks like a smaller version of what the machinery supplier shows on their Amazon Store page. Grizzly’s own website is of course far broader than both remote storefronts.
It will be interesting to see if and how this develops. I for one am very eager to see Home Depot expand further as an equipment supplier. Even with a Grizzly page, Home Depot trails far behind woodworking and metalworking machine suppliers with respect to brand and tool selection.
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Home Depot sells sofas and mattresses on their website – why not more table saws, band saws, planers, jointers, lathes, milling machines, shears, and similar?
David
I’ve been curious about what, if any impact this could have on shipping costs for Grizzly gear. If I can pick it up at Home Depot or have it delivered from the local store rather than drop shipped from Grizzly it might have a positive impact on costs.
Mike
That was my initial thought also, but I compared a couple of items between HD and Grizzly and it looks like HD is just priced to more or less compensate for the shipping.
T31739 drill press: HD: $452 Griz: $385+$70
G0704 Mill drill: HD: $2312 Griz: $1995+$249
G1023RLX Table saw: HD: $2870 Griz: $2595+$329
Bob
Every once in a while, HD has a better price on a Grizzly item. A year or two ago HD had the Shop Fox hybrid table saw for well below Grizzly’s price+ shipping. But that seems the exception.
Stuart
I noticed the same as Mike; Home Depot’s listings simply have the shipping fees baked into the price.
Jared
That’s common in Canada too. I think that, rather than Home Depot selling products, what’s actually happening is their just acting as a storefront for the product. So in this case when you order, the product may just ship from Grizzly.
It’s a curious practice on Home Depot’s part because they price match – so for some products, they just end up much higher than their competitors but will either match online stores or beat local retailers by 10% if you ask.
I’m not speculating – I bought a pair of Knipex Cobra XS from Home Depot last month. Home Depot wanted a whopping $68.98 for them, available online only. A local store sold them for ~$35. When I asked for a price match, Home Depot had no issue beating the price by 10% and shipping to me for free.
When the package arrived, it clearly came straight from Knipex. I can’t see Home Depot making any money doing that. I suspect it’s just a strategy to help make Home Depot the first place you go shopping – because they sell much more than they stock, so it increases the odds they will have what you’re looking for.
Rafe
Shipping to home depot could also be helpful to customers who don’t have the ability to unload heavy freight from a commercial delivery vehicle at their residence.
DRT42
Yes. That’s me.
Jeremy Henderson
I just purchased a Grizzly 1023 RLWX 5hp through Home Depot not to save money but instead for the convenience of being able to pick it up,Home Depots pricing is exactly the same as the Grizzly website by time you add shipping,Hime Depot claims to be giving you free shipping except they have the price inflated to make up the shipping charge.
Albert
The G0768 lathe has been on my wishlist for years (although I’m undecided if it is really worth buying). Home Depot’s price with free shipping has always been the same as Grizzly’s price plus shipping, without lift gate feee, and usually without the 5-10% discount that Grizzly offers regularly. I hope this improves. I like the idea of picking up from the store at a time that is convenient for me, being able to check the contents for obvious damage before accepting, and renting a truck by the hour.
S
Who/what is Grizzly? Up until now, I’ve never heard of the brand.
Looking through home depots pages, it appears to be competing with Jet products, as well as a line that competes more with harbor freight type discount tools?
I otherwise don’t see anything new/novel about them…
Rafe
Grizzly has been around since the 80’s and was developed to out compete brands like Jet and Powermatic on price while still offering the same types of tools. As you can imagine insofar as you get what you pay for, some of their machines are fairly crude but they offer more expensive lines of tools now that are decent. Grizzly has also replicated a number of products with what I assume are expired patents that are sold under the “Grizzly” name which are decent also.
MM
Like you said Grizzly has been around for a long time, and they sell product from many of the same factories overseas which are made/make tools for other brands like Jet, Powermatic, Delta, etc. I once purchased a Craftsman Professional 14″ bandsaw for my old university job. A few weeks later a buddy asks me for help setting up his new Grizzly…I noticed it was identical, even down to identifying marks on the castings, with just three exceptions: the Craftsman had different color plastic knobs for the blade tension & guides, it was painted a different color, and it had different decals on it. It was also about half the price.
In my experience their tools are hit and miss. The aforementioned bandsaw was great for its size. I have an older 5hp 12″ table saw and it’s been a reliable workhorse. The miter gauge was terrible quality but the saw itself is solid. Their belt/disc combo sanders like G1183 and G1276 are very good. Oscillating spindle sander G1071 is solid. Their larger bench grinders with cast-iron guards are surprisingly good. They used to have three models, 8, 10 and 12″, all under the Grizzly brand. Now I only see the 10″ and they’ve put it under their South Bend brand, no, SB1494. Now, the “hand punch”, no. T21321? Garbage. Sloppy construction, terrible material quality, it’s nowhere near as capable as its ratings suggest, and in my experience most of the punches & dies you might buy for it weren’t even hardened properly and would last for maybe 5-10 holes in 14ga mild steel. Also about the only way you could make it less ergonomic would be to wrap the handed in barbed wire. Metalworking lathes and Bridgeport clones? Not terrible, but not great either, definitely on the lower end.
Stuart
This is answered in the opening sentence of the post…
They make metalworking and woodworking tools, machinery, and related equipment…
Albert
Before the pandemic, tariffs, and recession, Grizzly’s contribution to woodworking was (among other things), the G1023 cabinet saw with cast iron table, two cast iron wings, 3 HP motor, cast iron trunnion, solid cast iron handwheels, cast iron trunnion, and cast iron miter gauge. All for $800.
Rafe
I think you’d have to go back 25 years to get this for $800. Even 12 or so years ago G1023 was $12-1300. Bought a 2HP “hybrid” model as an extra shop saw for $895 in 2019.
Mopar4wd
Grizzly seems to not be as aggressive in pricing as they were years ago. Everytime I go looking over about the last 2 years I’m surprised how expensive many of their items are. I’m not sure if it’s just their costs rising or something else.
Stuart
Rising costs. Prices are up across the board at every machinery company.
DrS85
I bought a $100 bench grinder from them, and while I have no comparison, it seems pretty good. Mostly, I like that because I bought a $100 grinder, they sent me a giant 200+ page catalogue where I can see their CNC machines that cost more than my car.
Saulac
If available, in store return would be a plus and would be a deciding factor in some cases.
Bob
What does seem to work is that you can get the 10% military discount on the price. I priced out the G0555LX bandsaw at 948 and it applied my 10% discount to bring the price down to 853.20. Griz’s price on their website is 715+199 which is supposed to be a sale price.
Bill Sung
How would one compare Grizzly quality to Wen’s as far as their Shop Tools (Wood Working)? Bandsaws, Joiners, Table Saws . . .
Stuart
From what I have read and heard over the years, I would say that Grizzly’s quality starts on-part with Wen and goes up from there.
Tool Junkie
Stuart, there was an article years ago in one of the woodworking magazines about these machines. It said there was a mile long road in Taiwan that had machine manufacturers/foundries. Jet, PM, Grizzly & numerous others all came out of the same plant. The same product was being sold by various manufacturers, which is why the aforementioned Craftsman looked identical to the Grizzly.
The differences were in the details. For example, higher quality specified parts from a different plant. A company representative from Jet or whomever, at the plant in Taiwan, turning down poor castings or lesser quality machining. This is obviously still the case somewhat; however, a lot of the parts are now being made in China, with the not so great manufacturing.
China wants to take over Taiwan, in part because of their great skill in manufacturing. For example, they have one of the highest quality computer chip manufacturing plants in the world there. The US Government is now paying out-of-pocket to compete buy trying to make a similar plant in AZ.