General Tools Automatic Center Punch - Perfect for Marking Metal and Wood Surfaces

Edgardo Macaso: work as expected

United States on Nov 23, 2023

juan alberto lopez calderon: muy buen producto, buen precio, práctico de usar

Mexico on Jul 13, 2023

Herculano: Muito bom para fazer suas marcações, porém o local onde se coloca a mão para fazer uso é muito estreito deveria ser mais largo para não se ter o incômodo da dor por muitas vezes.

Brazil on Apr 27, 2023

nadia rodrigues: não fiquei totalmente satisfeita pois esperava que demorasse mais tempo a apresentar problema.

Brazil on Mar 12, 2023

Aja: WORKS FINE. ,No problems in use almost daily

United States on Jan 18, 2023

Amazon Customer: Its not spring loaded, you have to push down on it with force, which kinda makes it pointless since you can just get a regular pointed pick. it also cause you to loose some accuracy as apposed to a spring loaded one where you can hold it directly in place with one hand while loading it with the other. all in all though, it is well made and does the job.

Canada on Sep 30, 2022

Ray Florida.: 2nd Responce I was pleasantly surprized once I shapened the point up and compared the indent with my UK Eclipse Automatic Center punch from almost 60 Years ago the indents are almost Identical.
If the body was of toughened steel I would have given it a 5 star rating.

First responce it looked nice but not as heavy as I would have expected, But I think this tool is mainly for DIY and wood work use. So well priced
I was also suprised to find the tool was not sharp.
I would like to add that I have net tried the tool as yet, But when I do, I will stretch spring to improve its performance on Metal.
My Background is a Tool Maker and lost my one several years ago. (Just Found it)
So I speak as an experenced user of this type of tool.

United States on May 05, 2022

kd: when i first took it out of the package i was initially impressed by the quality, and that's about all the good things about it.

first thing i noticed when using it is that it feels horrible, the action to compress feels and sounds crunchy. that might resolve itself once it wears more, but i dunno if i'm ever going to use it enough for that to happen.

first thing i tried it on was mild steel. no bueno. it barely touches it even on the heaviest setting.

next, i believe someone mentioned in another review that it's great for setting nails. i tried setting an 1-1/4" finish nail in some fir baseboard, not a chance.

next thing i tried was wood, it marks wood well. know what else marks wood? anything with a point. take a nail or screw and just press it into the wood with your hand, it's about the same effort and yields same result. you have 10+ things sitting around you right now that can do what this can.

i can't see a situation where this would be my go to. anything it can do, i already have something that does it better.

just to try and get some usage out of it, i might try using it as a steel scribe. if it sucks at that too, i'm probably...

Canada on Mar 16, 2022

Heeere's Johnny: An Excellent general purpose auto center punch as long as you ensure the screw-in tip is securely tightened (screwed in, CW, as viewed from the tip) before each use. If you don't, there's a chance the tip will break off at the threads meaning you'll have to get a 'readily available', new tip. Bang for your buck? On Amazon, a new tip ~$10, a new tool ~$17. You decide. After successfully using the same punch for over 5 years, I broke my 1st tip a few months back. I tried several "Lo-Priced, Menards, Lifetime Guarantee" punches that only worked for 10-20 cycles before beginning to fail the auto-re-cocking routine. If it won't re-cock it wont fire. So I took the broken one back to the, store one town south of me and was handed a brand new one in the package. Before the 4th trip, I put the horse back in front of the cart and bought a brand new Central Tool from Amazon. The old one continues laying in my drill drawer needing a new tip. It sorta, but not 100%, reminds me of the old double edged safety razor gimmick where a Blade Mfgr gave you a free shaver then you spent the rest of your life paying for razor blades. DUH?

United States on Jan 21, 2021

Sandy Ganz: I like these punches. They work well but be careful of the tips they are hard and brittle. The one problem is the tip does get loose. I have used red thread locker the help. Otherwise a heavy well made tool.

United States on Apr 22, 2020