Hello. My research led me to believe that Nicholson stopped making files in the United States several years ago and are now owned by Crescent and the files are manufactured in China or Mexico. A couple years ago I bought a few Nicholson files on eBay. They have Made in the USA stamped on them, I think in a circular design and they were listed as NOS (New Old Stock, or made a long time ago but never sold and still new) made in the USA files. Now I need a triangular taper file and I wanted one of the old NOS files made in the US. I found one on eBay and bought it, but now that I've received it I have doubts that it is really one of the old NOS made in the USA files. At the bottom on the back it says the Cooper group, and under that it has the words CRESCENT LUFKIN NICHOLSON WELLER. And in tiny letters it has an address in North Carolina. It is stamped with the circular Nicholson logo, and it is stamped Made in the USA but that is not in the circular pattern that my other old Nicholsons have (I think), rather it is two horizontal lines of text.
My thinking is that since it says Crescent on it, it is not one of the old good files from Nicholson. The packaging looks brand new. I would not expect it to last like one of the real old Nicholsons.
Yet it is made in the United States. So I'm quite confused. Does anybody know more about this? Thanks a lot.
My thinking is that since it says Crescent on it, it is not one of the old good files from Nicholson. The packaging looks brand new. I would not expect it to last like one of the real old Nicholsons.
Yet it is made in the United States. So I'm quite confused. Does anybody know more about this? Thanks a lot.
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