With a low-stress component such as a beer tap handle, you don't need the kind of meticulous welding work you'd want on, say, a suspension. A few zaps and the job was done.

Beer tap handles come be made of all sorts of material including wood or metal like this one. Bothell’s Decibel Brewing makes tap handles out of recycled microphones.

RANDOM LAKE, Wis. - Cone heads, zombies, beards, bananas -- they are some of the creative beer tap handles that have become a big business as the number of craft breweries has skyrocketed. There ...

Breweriana collector George Baley, who wrote the book ‘‘Vintage Beer Tap Markers: Ball Knobs, 1930s-1950s,’’ estimated that there are between 25,000 and 40,000 different handles.

Breweriana collector George Baley, who wrote the book “Vintage Beer Tap Markers: Ball Knobs, 1930s-1950s," estimated that there are between 25,000 and 40,000 different handles.