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8th August 2017, 06:46 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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Small carvers mallet
As no one likes watching paint dry, me especially, and in this weather it just drags on and on I thought I would rummage though my off cuts bin and see what I could come up with. And here it is a 3 piece carvers mallet. Jarrah, Tassie Oak and Mountain Brush Mahogany. First I drilled out 38mm forstner to get a face, then 35mm, then 20mm into the Mahogany, then I used the 20mm forstner bit in a small piece of 42mmsq piece of tassie oak. I then turned the outside down to 35mm to fit the mahogany. Next I turned the jarrah down to 20mm to fit snugly into the 2 other pieces, but not enough to prevent me getting glue in there and forcing massive squeeze out. I am also going to add a store card or 2 for Sh-ts and giggles.
I find that the white line adds a nice separator between the timbers. I still have some fine tuning to do and shaping but you'll get the idea from the pics. The cards aren't in the pictures.
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I have another one planned but with a more meaty head of Queensland red gum. Tough and heavy.
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16th August 2017, 03:08 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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Finished.
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16th August 2017, 03:42 PM #3
That's quite nice I like it
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That's elegant. What did you wind up with for weight?
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17th August 2017, 12:37 AM #5GOLD MEMBER
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I've got a 375g carver's mallet for gouges smaller than, say, 8/12 and a lead-core (940g) to bash the bigger ones like a 5/35.
A cast lead core in yours would be an absolute pleasure to use.
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17th August 2017, 10:10 AM #8
Nice looking mallet fumbler.
As a carver who has destroyed many mallets over the years, I decided to turn the heads cross grain instead of long grain as I get 10 to 20 times more life out of the mallet especially if doing a lot of heavy mallet work.
Mu best and longest lasting one has an Osage Orange handle with a Lignum Vitae salvaged from the bowling balls made for Sovereign Hill bowling alley. This one has been my best ever and has lasted a bit over 30 years with little damage to the head where most of my others have splintered along the grain even after a few months use and the timber choice didn't make any difference.
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17th August 2017, 09:56 PM #9
Gee Fumbler, that's almost too nice to use
Well done,
Cheers, Ian"The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot.. it can't be done.
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18th August 2017, 04:59 AM #10GOLD MEMBER
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I know, isn't it!! I have come to the realisation that its all well and good having made some nice handled tools, but there's no point having nice tools if i don't use them. so on this basis i haven't done them with my usual high gloss finish. just some EEE, and UBeaut shellawax Glow.
i had epoxy'd it all together, but hadn't turned the final shape or put the finish on and the kids were giving me grief the other day so i whacked the dining table seriously hard (table needs sanding and refinishing anyway), to get them to stop, neither of which got damaged, nor did it stop he kids!! it worked for about 30secs when they then laughed and said do it again daddy!! Even though it didn't mark the timber, i'm not so sure it will be as resilient with a chisel handle.
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A tip for large heavy woodcarving mallets
Great way to use bits and pieces, Fumbler, and a mighty useful tool resulting. When you come to turning up the head for your big heavy mallet, can I offer a tip? My woodcarving teacher in London (William Wheeler, who wrote a handbook on Woodcarving and Gilding back in the 1960s, and has written others since) advocated turning a groove around the striking part of the mallet head. This is the width and depth of a belt-leather, and you insert a belt leather into the groove, holding it in place just at the ends with tiny tacks, or a couple of dobs of araldite. I saved my shillings and had a mighty solid mallet made for me out of lignum vitae way back then, and followed his advice. I have replaced the belt a couple of times over the years, as it got pulped, but the head remains as good as new fifty years later, none of the denting and splintering that often occur on the striking surfaces of mallet heads.
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