XX shown with optional bench mount

Customer Reviews

Shawn from San Jose, CA: Service Rating =   Product Rating =
Product Use = Part Time/Hobby

The XX punch has been made for decades, has oodles of different punches available for it, and is really tight so if you need close tolerance holes, the punches to do it are available and they will punch those square shaped holes. It takes forever for the mechanism to loosen up, so it does take a strong arm to both hold it in place and then punch with it. If you can make the hole with the no.5 punch, it is a lot easier but for odd shaped holes and for more power, the XX is the punch for all time.

Clifford from Idalou, TX: Service Rating =   Product Rating =
Product Use = Part Time/Hobby

I must give this testimonial. I bought my hand punch almost 20 years ago and have used it on all types of jobs through the years. Only once have I had a die break and that was because a helper once dropped it on cement. It works as well as the day I bought it. Up until this last January, I still had it in the original plastic case (yes, with care it too survived all these years on construction jobs) with all of the original dies I bought with it. In January of this year I suffered a house fire in which I lost everything. After the fire I sifted through the ashes and gathered the blackened remnants of any tools I thought might be usable if cleaned or worked on. I came across my whitney punch and put it in the box with the rest of the things I found including some of the loose dies I found in the ashes. Needless to say, there was no sign of the melted plastic case other than the gunk that was melted around parts of the punch in solid globs. I ran across it the other day as I was cleaning tools and decided to see if it was salvageable. I chipped away the solid gunk, cleaned the remaining rust and residue from the tool with a wire wheel on a bench grinder and sprayed a little WD-40 on the moving parts and guess what? It was a little stiff at first but loosened up with a little determined manipulation. The rubber handle were melted off, the case is gone and I don't know yet whether the heat of the fire damaged the temper of the dies, but the punch itself made a full recovery and now works once again as good as it did the day I bought it. This demonstrates and is a tribute to the quality of your product and I thought you should know about it. I can truly say that I am proud to own a tool of that high of a quality and durability. I will update you later as to whether the dies held up under such harsh heat treatment and can still perform their function without bending or breaking.

Stephen from Pittsburgh, CA: Service Rating =   Product Rating =
Product Use = Part Time/Hobby

No. 5 JR HAND PUNCH - Sheet metal is a little hard to punch with it, but it is very accurate since you can see through the bottom to line up your mark & hole. Very solidly built - stronger than most tools I use, and even when you wear out the punch you like most, all you do is replace the worn piece! Needs to include limitations for materials it is to be used on, I almost had to stand on the thing to punch 1/8" sheet aluminum. oh and take off the depth spacer, it makes too much of a thumb slicer if you catch it right. thankfully only my thumbnail got caught.