My Mitutoyo Vernier caliper calipers pair of calipers instrument cost, I think, around 30 pre-Brexit UK pounds, and that’s as nice a tool as you can get, and makes you feel like you’re an engineer in a luxury car commercial. Unless you’re buying 100 for a prison workshop or something, I think it’s silly to try to save like $10 on something that would otherwise last a lifetime and be actually pleasurable just to hold.
That sounds pretentious, but (a) I think you are pragmatically more likely to leave a cheap-feeling tool on a garage floor and end up running over it, and (b) what, you’re measuring stuff to the nearest tenth of a millimeter on the reg, but you don’t care about details?
