I like your crisp working style and spare commentary.

"Necessity is (indeed) the mother of invention!" I admire anyone who can create a useful "jig" or "tool" that enhances the fabrication experience. Nice job. Best wishes and stay healthy.

You keep your shop spotless. I'm envious. Nice video. Lots of great ideas and instruction. Thank you.

Another beautiful video - thank you so much. I like your project very much, but it' also a joy just watching you work. You have a calm and unhurried confidence that really shows the pleasure you feel as you do the work.

By golly I think you have made the best ever guided tap ranch!!! And I noticed that power table being used quite often!! Awesome idea, thanks Winky!!!!!

As many tools as I have (enough to build a car, boat or airplane) I was not aware of the square drive tap holders and had been trying to invent something much like this. Holding the tap was the last problem to solve. Many thanks!

New to your channel. Love your content! Best ever guided tap wrench.......most honest description on the Internet!

Great job, as usual. Tapping has become a chore for me after tapping SO many hole at work and home. Still love the old movie projector rolling at the end of the video.

Nice job. Back in the days of steam, we used to use taps chucked in a Jacob's chuck, in a vertical mill, and power tapped. The tap would slip when the threads were at the point that we would finish off manually. Another trick was to use a socket just bigger than the tap OD to guide it when starting. Working smarter not harder when ever possible. Keep up the good work and ideas!

I like it! I've used a spring loaded tap guide for quite awhile, but this has some definite advantages.

NOT HATE MAIL ... I've been a fan of your Channel for a long time and have learned many things and ideas. One comment I've debated with myself over is watching you stop the drill press chuck with your left hand after shutdown. It hearkens me back to 1967 when my summer job before starting college was working at the Chevrolet Assembly Plant in Flint, Michigan. My work station was next to a guy who had recently transferred from the 4 cylinder motor assembly line to the V8 line. Before it became automated, his job at both locations was operating a stantion drill press to assure certain water passages in the engine block were symmetric. For years, while working on the 4 cylinder line, he had stoppled the chuck by grabbing it with his hand, without incident. On his first day on the V8 line, and while doing the same job as before, he reached up to stop the chuck. Because these chucks used an allen key versus a chuck key, and the drill in the chuck on the V8 line was larger in diameter that the one on the 4 cylinder line, the tip of the allen key protruded slightly, which grabbed his wedding ring and ripped his finger off, including the tendons that connect it into the hand. Obviously, "you" don't wear a ring when you work in the shop, but many Channel Observers do. Even though virtually all of us have a "chuck key" arrangement, I can still see a situation where the teeth of the chuck could grab a ring and do the same damage. Anyway ... it's off to better thoughts.

First time viewer here and now a subscriber. Thanks for the tapping tips and the small project. I have had great success using form taps and have yet to break one so whenever I need to purchase a new tap I select the forming tap. By the way all the manufactured tools I have tested are usually around Rc 36 in hardness, soft enough to drill through.

well Wink,i just finished my new (borrowed from you) tap-wrench,i absolutely love it....keep up the good work

So slick. Awesome little build.

Love that idea. Great work.

Great video. I like the different types of tap wrenches and advantages and disadvantages of each. I do a lot of tapping in my 15 inch drill press, especially on aluminum, with the tap held in the chuck. Takes a low speed, reversing motor, a bit of oil, and a quick in and out.

Very nice build Wink, a few of my tools have sliding handles like your new tap handle, I solved the sliding problem with 2, O rings on the shaft so it can still slide when I want it to for extra leverage. Also, on another subject, I have an 80s Craftsman brand drill press that I hate but it has one nice feature for a long time I never knew it had. It's possible to set the quill spring to force the quill up or force it down by pulling the 3 spoke handle out and adjusting the spring tension either way. It's a very handy feature for drilling, with the exception that you have to lock the quill in the up position, but it is very easy to change the force direction anyway. I mostly have it set to the force-down direction for an easier drill bit to punch mark alignment. Don't know if all drill presses have that feature but I stumble on it when I was replacing the quill bearings by a setup mistake.

Great invention. Thank you for sharing.

What a Great project Mr. Winky. Thanks for sharing.

I decided to follow your video and made a tap follow like yours, I already had the Irwin tap holder. I have to say it is the best follower I have now

Hey Winky, when you finished it and tested it out I noted your reaction. You said "I love it"! My guess is that anyone who has ever tapped a hole will Love It. PERFECTAMUNDO! Chris

Very cool tap wrench.

👍👍😎👍👍 - tappin' holes can be so satisfying. Thanks for the ideas

Love the t handle idea. It feels so good when an idea is not good but actually great.

Very elegant. Thanks!

Nice to figure new ways of making things easier....Cheers; Mike in Louisiana

Thanks Mark, nice work again.

I’m going to make one, I have them tap holders! I’m also going to steal your idea of your chuck key on a leash!!!! Love it! Keep it up!

Nice!! It´s on my to do list, I liked the design👍👍. Stay safe sir 🖖

I bought a couple of those tap heads with a similar goal, now I know how to do it!

I want one too! Nice design and implementation.

Excellent design Winky.

That is a good idea, especially since you can interchange taps quickly.

Your shop is so clean... 😲!!!

wink,i'm looking at your video again,i just love this video,it has to be one of the best ones yet..thanks again my friend

I remember back in the 60's a die shop I worked at had a tapping fixture. A C-frame with a floating spindle, with a handwheel that had a spinner handle on it, attached on the top end. Place the work under the spindle and turn the handwheel. There were collects for every size tap. The C-frame kept the workpiece from spinning.

Very nice Mark, Thank You.

I was really enjoying this video till you started polishing your knob!...Then I bursted out laughing and had to make this comment!...I'll see myself out now! Keep up the good work!

Thank you winki for the tip

Thanks for video, great job!!!

Awesome job I like it thank you

congats Mark,this is on Best home made tools,congrats again,see i said it.best video yet.....you deserve it my friend.

Great video winky, keep'um coming.

Great design

Great job mark I like the new tap handle

What a great design! As I see it, the most important aspect of this design, is the guide for the tapping tool provided by the de-burring tool and adaptor you made. So the question for me is how to make an adapter for my tap wrench - which works fine and will be even better if guided. Thanks Winky!

As usual, very informative and entertaining video.

Thanks for this Mark, I've been looking at those tap holders. Nice job on the T-handle. Another option for securing it would be an o-ring on either side. That way ithe handle could be easily moved if tapping in tight quarters.

Hi Winky, An interesting solution to your problem... Take care Paul,,

Interesting. Very nice work

I'm a bit late in the game here. I've been watching your videos for a couple years now, just missed this when it came out I guess. An improved tap handle is on a short list that I should be getting too soonish. I hope you don't mind me taken some of your ideas as inspiration. Only major difference is mine will have a removable spring guide "pusher" in or really with it if I don't need it for something in particular. Got some nice ideas from this video that should really help lower the complexity of the finished tap handle. Always enjoy your videos Winky, I might miss one every now and a again, but I think I'll be watching these videos as long as you are still putting them out. Learn something new in alot of them and kinda feel like a buddy is showing me what he's been up to in the shop.

awesome, awesome video thanks for sharing.

Nice job winky It turned out very usefull

It's a gooder Wink, Thanks for sharing Cheers

Awesome idea Mark! Adding to the project list! ATB.....Dean

Thanks for the great video and information. Just subscribed.

When you were thinking about brazing the Tee bar I was talking to my screen and saying 'just put a grub screw in the shank'....you must have heard me😨. Nice job,I like your design very much👍

Great idea Mark i am sure going to have to add this as a priority to my project list. Like you to many tapped holes gets a bit to much. Completely agree.😊😊👍👍🏆 Champion idea between tap sizes too.

knurl the center and that makes a hard press fit. Looks good with the set screw. nice job.

My husband used the same female tap adapter but he used a sliding T handle that had a 1/2 square male on the bottom and a combination 3/8 and 1/4 male adapter on the top of the sliding T handle. He put a deep 10 mm socket onto the 1/4 adapter on top and now had a tool very similar ot the one you made but using ready purchased tools.

Just rewatching your video not realizing I'd watched it before until I saw my comment, I improved all drill press work by removing the handle on the drill chuck key and welding it through a box end of a combination wrench 1/2" or 9/16" and the first time I used it I thought why did I do this 10 years ago.

You read my mind! I saw you use this in the cut-off holder video, and I said to myself "I want one of THOSE!"

Really nice! Maybe a ball detent set screw with a small groove? Working on my square column drill press now!

Good job, useful tool! 😊 -Mark

Looking good. I just put the tap in the drill press chuck and start the motor then when I get close to the hole stop the motor and jam the tap in. Starts strainght every time.

I was sent two of those socket type tape wrenches for free from the manufacturer. Now I know what I'm going to do with them! Even the adapters were a Harbor Freight freebee.

Very NICE.

Top job , glad you didn't braze the lever in as you may be short of room one day and have to slide it back and forth.

What a good idea

That is an interesting take on a tap wrench

Love seeing creative solutions. Thanks for the video. I just subscribed. What is the source of Your tap holders?

Nice tool Winky! One tip if you wish to make the handle tight in the body, then put a deep coarse knurl where you want it tight and if it is not too slack in the first place then it will become a light press fit. I did this when I made an unequal length handle for my Chinese 6" three jaw chuck on my lathe to give me just a little more purchase. It worked a treat. ( Not my idea, I was only copying the original stock handle)

You're awesome!

Liked it very much. Funny how I used taps all my life and never had a problem with them being non-concentric. ...Badda-bing-badda-boom... UNTIL I started doing some precision work. YIKES -- never realized just how off they could be !!! This appears to be a great solution - got the Irwin tap socket set $29 in my Wishlist for the next set of orders. Will be fun to make. Would have been nice to have a spring-ball type mechanism for centering the handle, but I sure don't see any easy of of doing it w/o making the upper handle of a 1/4" larger diameter. But really not important that set screw can be let out if leverage is REALLY needed. Thankyou.

link or more detailed description of those items which hold the taps? And nice work and thanks for sharing your ideas/designs!

Oh yeah I got to have one of those

Nice...I'm going to build one

I like it!

Fun! Gonna make one. BTW who makes that bench vise you have? Looks pretty neat. Mine has so much backlash. Time to replace.

I like it.

nice job thats the nicest tap handle I've seen. hope you don't mind if I use your idea and make one for myself.I have really big hands and I find those t-handle tap handles very hard on my hands after awhile. great video.

I like that, it gives the use of both hands to tap. Where do you buy those 3/8 tap adapters from ?👍

Nice. Me, i would have just added leverage to the little wrench's handles to solve the comfort issue, and hooked a weight on the drill press handle to solve the need for a third hand issue. But i can't get shmancy tools like the cool adapters you used.

Second time watching. Question is the handle is sized to fit over the countersink? I do love how it is free to slide on that shift. But I don't think my countersink has that much of a shoulder. What do you think about just having a steel shaft to chuck up as the guide? Did find the chuck adapter on Amazon.

Great idea! You should patent and sell!!!! Brilliant!

Perfect for use in the lathe too….may need a shorter handle…but that’s no problem

The set screw was a stoke of genius, I would add a groove centered on the ‘T’ handle for the set screw to hold and balance it. Although in retrospect, I am a little OCD at times.

nice one thanks

I like it 👍

Very nicely done. You could've also knurled the tee handle and then press fit it to the tap drive.

Great idea! I do lots of tapping at work, definitely will start on one of these. Where did you source the 3/8" holder?

I like that Wink

enjoy your video as I am from Australia where do u purchase the adapters as i can't seam to find them over here

If you like spring loaded guides, just drop an appropriately sized spring in the top before you insert the countersink bit, and set your quill position to preload the tap handle.

Excellent tap wrench/tap follower! But, won't it be harder to break taps with the shorter handle?? :)

Very nice idea, Now a question, your drill press has a reverse? If so why not tap using it? I know some don't.

Hey Mark Great video liked it alot fantastic idea too. But am wondering about excessive torque on small to medium size taps and may cause to snap especially in tougher material. What do you think? Stay safe and take care mark.👍

Thanks Winky, what oil are you using, when you tap?? Could it be any oil, even,...temporarily..... olive oil ? ??? Just asking =)

Sure like your Videos.

I would put a thumb screw instead of set screw when you have to change the position of handle. A good project.