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Infinity Tools Taps For Woodworking

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Our Premium Taps Are Specifically Designed For Woodworking!

A Tradition Of Strength

The history of nuts and bolts is fascinating. Today they are mostly associated with metalworking but that wasn't always the case. Early woodworkers of the Middle Ages used threaded joinery in engineering projects like flour mills, winches, and watermills. Using wooden threads and bolts eventually became impractical due to the ever-growing complexity and the size of machines that required stronger mechanical fasteners. Modern woodworkers have been tapping threads into wood for installing workbench hardware, making custom jigs and fixtures, and even creating knockdown furniture. It simplifies construction, allows for easy assembly and disassembly, and produces very strong joints. But until now woodworkers have had to use metalworking taps to make threads in wood and the results have been less than ideal because taps for metal don't have the necessary geometry or clearance for cutting wood and they don't produce a proper thread.

Made Specifically For Wood

We've designed our new Woodworking Taps to produce clean and sharp threads in your choice of hard or softwood. They're made of high-speed steel and are machined to a tight tolerance for precision and accuracy. We apply our proprietary Chrome-Armor plating to each tap for durability, lubricity, and corrosion resistance. Unlike metalworking taps that tend to 'crush' a thread into the wood, our taps cut cleanly and have ideal flute geometry and chip clearance for making defined threads that will accept your choice of bolts. They feed effortlessly into their pre-drilled hole without burning or binding and allow you to drill up to 3-¼" deep while cutting threads almost to the very bottom of a blind hole. And unlike metal working taps that have a square drive, the Infinity Tools Wood Threading Taps have a machined hex shank that won't slip in your drill's chuck.

For ease of use and identification, we go the extra mile and laser mark each tap with its thread size and suggested pilot hole diameter for softwood and plywood. For hardwoods, we recommend drilling a pilot hole 1/32” larger than that marked on the shank. The Infinity Tools Wood Threading Taps are available in six Imperial sizes from ¼"-20 to 9/16”-12, and three metric sizes: M6, M8, and M10.

Features Include:

  • Chrome-Armor plated high-speed steel for durability, lubricity, and corrosion resistance.
  • Hex drive shank designed for electric drill use
  • Extra-long relieved shank allow for drilling up to 3-1/4" deep
  • Each tap is laser marked with the thread size and correct pilot hole size for use in softwood and plywood. For hardwoods, we recommend drilling a pilot hole 1/32” larger.

    Infinity Wood Threading Taps

    We've designed our new Woodworking Taps to produce clean and sharp threads in your choice of hard or softwood. They're made of high-speed steel and are machined to a tight tolerance for precision and accuracy. We apply our proprietary Chrome-Armor plating to each tap for durability, lubricity, and corrosion resistance. Unlike metalworking taps that tend to 'crush' a thread into the wood, our taps cut cleanly and have ideal flute geometry and chip clearance for making defined threads that will accept your choice of bolts.

    Infinity Tools Wood Taps are designed from the ground up to cut clean and precise threads in all types of wood.
    Infinity Tools Wood Taps are designed from the ground up to cut clean and precise threads in all types of wood.

    Have you ever wished you could just tap a hole in a piece of wood and screw it together like a piece of metal? I know I have. This would be a huge time saver for making all sorts of jigs, fixtures, and even complete projects. The Infinity Tools Wood Threading Taps allow you to do just that; tap threads into a piece of wood so you can use standard hardware store bolts. Worried about strength? Don't be, in most cases these taps will create joints that are as strong or stronger than if you were to use some form of a metal insert, let's take a closer look.

    The Infinity Tools Wood Threading Taps are available individually in six imperial sizes from 1/4"-20 to 9/16"-12 and three metric sizes, M6, M8, & M10. All allow you to quickly and easily cut threads into hardwood, softwood, and plywood. We also have these taps available in a variety of money-saving sets.

    With a cutter geometry designed specifically for wood, The Infinity Wood Taps cut cleanly to create strong joints.
    With a cutter geometry designed specifically for wood, The Infinity Wood Taps cut cleanly to create strong joints.

    Unlike taps for metal, these unique taps have been designed specifically for wood in order to cut clean, strong threads. Instead of a square drive, these have a hex drive and are intended for use in a handheld drill. The long, thin shanks allow you to tap holes up to 3-1/4" deep, most metal taps can only reach about 1" at best.

    Undersized and extra-long bodies allow the Infinity Wood Taps to reach up to 3-1/4
    Undersized and extra-long bodies allow the Infinity Wood Taps to reach up to 3-1/4" deep.

    Standard metal taps have a long "lead" specifically for starting in metal. The Infinity Wood Taps have a short "lead" making them better for starting in wood and allows them to cut threads almost all the way to the bottom of a blind hole.

    Not just a renamed metal tap, Infinity Wood Taps are designed specifically for use in wood.
    Not just a renamed metal tap, Infinity Wood Taps are designed specifically for use in wood.

    Just like our saw blades, we go the extra mile and Chrome-Armor plate our taps. This keeps the taps from rusting, reduces friction, and makes them easier to keep clean.

    Our taps are made of high-speed steel. We chose HSS specifically for its edge-holding characteristics to extend the life of the tool and because it cuts clean threads in all types of wood. To eliminate clogging the Infinity Wood Taps have extra-large flutes that clear wood shavings much better than a metal tap.

    Chrome-Armor plated and laser marked bodies make it easy to know you have the right size and we also tell you what size pilot hole you need to drill.
    Chrome-Armor plated and laser marked bodies make it easy to know you have the right size and we also tell you what size pilot hole you need to drill.

    Each tap is laser marked with its size and the correct pilot hole size for use in softwood and plywood. If using the taps in hardwoods and some dense plywoods you will want to choose a pilot hole size roughly 1/32" larger. Don't worry, these taps are tough, you will know when to switch to a larger pilot size because the tap will become difficult to start. Once started, the tap will "self-feed", only requiring you to gently guide the drill. Once the hole is tapped to the desired depth, put your drill in reverse and back the tap out and you are done.

    Stronger than you think! 1/4
    Stronger than you think! 1/4"-20 threads cut 1" deep into the end grain of a 2x4 were strong enough to hold our router table weighing over 130 lbs.

    How strong of a joint can these taps create? Without getting too technical the answer is, pretty darn strong. We drilled and tapped a pair of 1/4"-20 holes 1" deep in a piece of Pine 2x4, installed a pair of eye hooks, and used it to pick up our router table. At over 130 pounds the router table was no match for the tapped holes and ensures that simple jigs, fixtures, and knockdown furniture created with an Infinity Tools Wood Threading Tap will definitely be up to the task.