ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
A carpenter in Betoota Heights has today entered a rare and deeply personal state of euphoria after experiencing the clean, confident cut of a saw blade that does not immediately shit itself on first contact with wood.
Tom Morrison, 32, had just slotted a brand new Kango 40 tooth into his battered circular saw when the moment hit. After pulling the trigger and running it through a length of pine, Morrison stood still beside the workbench for a full fifteen seconds, eyes closed and rolling into the back of his head, lips parted and chest rising with the kind of deep sigh typically reserved for a newborn’s first cry or that first ice cold can on a client’s new deck.
“It just went through,” he said.
“No moan, no burn, no dip in RPM, no screeching. Just whooshka. Clean. Like it wanted to.”
Colleagues say Morrison is not normally one for public displays of emotion but was visibly moved by the sensation of using a blade that might actually last longer than an hour.
“Last week he was going through those bargain bin specials like party pies at a Christening,” said another carpenter.
“They come in a ten-pack and you’re lucky to get three cuts out of each. I saw him frisbee one into the skip bin without even looking at it.”
Morrison says the difference is simple. It’s Kango. Whether it’s a 48-tooth metal blade, a versatile 40 tooth for your timber cuts, or even a 60 tooth ultra fine finish for the few of them who still believe in craftsmanship, it’s the only brand he trusts now not to go blunt on him or send him to the poor house.
“It’s like using a real tool again,” he said.
“Not some shiny piece of junk that falls apart if you look at it wrong. Kango’s built proper. Built to last.”
At time of press, Morrison had completed an entire set of decking cuts without once calling the saw a name that’d get you sacked on the spot in any office job.
More to come.
