I did but wasn't prepared to pay $27 for the handle!

Yep,kinda rough when they're puttin' the screws to you. Needed one shark bite fitting,27$ at local Builder Center. Drove 15 miles to Home Depot, got it for 7$.

Thirty miles round trip plus your time, gas, wear and tear on your car was worth 20 bucks? I would just ordered it from amazon.

We have a local family owned grocery/hardware/sporting goods store here that has about anything you'll need, and if they don't have it all ya gotta do is ask if'n they can get it. Most times they can.

Now you won't beat online places very often on price but there's so.getting to be said about someone working one on one with ya to get the product.

And, they're not overly priced on things and sometimes lower.

The thing that frustrates me is the locals that are left ,their stock is short and the help is also. We can order it on the next stock order. When is that, every 2 weeks>>>>WHAT!
Don't you dare call and ask if they have a particular item, can you hold, then the long wait. AND ITS EVERYWHERE!

Now here Walmart, Fred Meyers will deliver.......Just like Amazon! WHY didn't they do it before Amazon?

Tool handles are crazy expensive, mostly due to the lack of quality timber, and skills/knowledge to make them, not to mention nobody really knows how to fit and put them on the tool.

If it was the same make of handle that's terrible
I have found, especially for hatchet and ax handles, that sometimes the cheap ones are just that...cheap
You have to look closely at the grain of the wood and make sure it won't let the head split off in the first few swings

2X4s treated are 2X the cost locally they don’t make it easy.

How much was a new tool?

I doubt that head is still made.

Too late now but in the future try House Handle they have a handle for about anything you can imagine, really good prices and high quality. I have given up on trying to buy handles locally super high prices and low quality.