While you’ll find all manner of tools at discount prices on Black Friday, some types of tools and tool brands are more ubiquitous than others. DeWalt and Milwaukee, two of the top tool brands in the business, love to lean into sales events, and you can always find a good price on a cordless drill from one of these brands.

The WIRED team boasts decades of experience in product testing and a nose for sniffing out the best deals, backed by price tracking tools. For Black Friday, we cross-reference our buying guide recommendations with the latest sale prices to find the best early Black Friday deals on gadgets and gizmos worth owning.

Check out our Deals page for more discounts on our favorite Wirecutter picks. I’ve covered Black Friday sales for Wirecutter since 2016, vetting hundreds of thousands of bombastic bargain claims and navigating seas of mediocre “blowout” TV deals.