T Handle Wire Puller ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I've been fighting not having a proper pick/hook in my toolbox for a long time. This fathers day weekend my son pulled out an old box of rc plane supplies... Date: June 21, 2026 I’ve been fighting not having a proper pick/hook in my toolbox for a long time. This fathers day weekend my son pulled out an old box of rc plane supplies from my days trying to build planes like flight test. Inside there was a pack of piano wire. SUCCESS Rules -8 │ Need a tool make a tool. He had pulled this out while I had the soldering iron hot plucking away at a keeb build that I’ve had sitting idle on the workbench for a long time. The dream of having several identical working builds at the same time is very close to fruition, I just need some more work on the clone. Posts tagged: keeb I was struggling to pull wires through traces of 3d prints. You see I was once a mechanical engineer, not electrical, so 3d modeling is my hammer that I can turn into a tool for any solution, and I’ve just not put the time into learning pcb design. Someday maybe. I always just take some scrap copper make a little look and twist it around until I can get it close enough to pull with some tweezers. As he has this box out and I see the piano wire, its the perfect stiff wire to use for the job. only its so thick it doesn’t even fit down inside the traces. But after a bit of filing bending a hook and handle its proving to be a useful tool in the handwired keyboard toolbelt. Image: T Handle Wire Puller T Handle Wire Puller, with just the right hook on the end, and filed down just thin enough to slip in and grab wire. Notice I gave the hook a bit of paint, Not only does this make it easier to find, but it signifies, this is my tool, its not just a random bit of wire, its something that someone put some time and care into. Image: T Handle Wire Puller In Action T Handle Wire Puller in Action, sliding in to grab some fresh copper. Its working great so far with zero signs of benging, the piano wire is really hard to get bent in and out of shape unlike the soft copper wire I was using out of convenience.