routermaniac
11th June 2005, 07:59 PM
Hey guys, these are a few things I made over the hast few days for stress relief... currently studying for exams and slowly going mad, that may explain the ridiculously large mallet :) .
The chisel blades I picked up from the sunday market at about one dollar each, the socket chisel is a Titan 1 1/2 inch bevel chisel and is an absolute joy to use. The other chisel is a heavy 1 1/2 inch English framing chisel which was heavily pitted but will be ok for rough jobs. As you can see from the handle I made for it I intend to bash the #@$! out of it :D .
The handles were made on my crappy GMC lathe using Aussie hardwood offcuts.
Now moving on to the mallets, the smallest one will be used for setting the blades on my Muji handplanes (similar to the HNT Gordon in size). The next size up is for light chisel work, the size after that is roughly the same as an average woodworking mallet.
The biggest mallet was made for a joke, I have appropriately called it "Arnie", it is for some serious bashing (you can tell Im stressed cant you????) :) The head is laminated and measures 105x65x205mm with a 560 mm handle (also hardwood).
Apart from cutting the heads of the mallets, no power tools were used. The handles were shaped with my trusty spokeshaves and my muji and the wood finished off with a scraper and steel wool.
All items were finished with several coats of boiled linseed oil and are very easy on the hands.
I think I might just make one more mallet intermediate in size between the monster and the standard mallet... just for the sake of completeness.
The chisel blades I picked up from the sunday market at about one dollar each, the socket chisel is a Titan 1 1/2 inch bevel chisel and is an absolute joy to use. The other chisel is a heavy 1 1/2 inch English framing chisel which was heavily pitted but will be ok for rough jobs. As you can see from the handle I made for it I intend to bash the #@$! out of it :D .
The handles were made on my crappy GMC lathe using Aussie hardwood offcuts.
Now moving on to the mallets, the smallest one will be used for setting the blades on my Muji handplanes (similar to the HNT Gordon in size). The next size up is for light chisel work, the size after that is roughly the same as an average woodworking mallet.
The biggest mallet was made for a joke, I have appropriately called it "Arnie", it is for some serious bashing (you can tell Im stressed cant you????) :) The head is laminated and measures 105x65x205mm with a 560 mm handle (also hardwood).
Apart from cutting the heads of the mallets, no power tools were used. The handles were shaped with my trusty spokeshaves and my muji and the wood finished off with a scraper and steel wool.
All items were finished with several coats of boiled linseed oil and are very easy on the hands.
I think I might just make one more mallet intermediate in size between the monster and the standard mallet... just for the sake of completeness.