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13th April 2013, 03:22 PM #1Senior Member
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Joiners mallet
Many of you would know that tools you make yourself soon become your favourites, this is certainly the case with my joiners mallet. I didn't realise how much of a favourite it was until I had misused it bashing the back of hatchet trying to split a log ...... I had a teary moment after the mallet exploded.
anyway I had to make a new one and I thought somebody would be interested in this fairly easy project, I originally got the design from wood smith mag.
As you can see from the photo the head of the mallet is laminated up from three sections of timber, in this case tas mytle. The middle section has a 2 degree cut made to allow the tenon to be wedged open. The holes were filled with the smallest lead sinkers that I could find, this adds a nice weight to the mallet, very handy for knocking joints together.
I glued the head together and allowed at least a day to cure fully before inserting, the handle, glueing and wedging.
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13th April 2013, 03:30 PM #2Senior Member
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The finished mallet, as you can see I shaped the sides and faces of the mallets head. The shaping on the side I think just looks good, but the shaping on the face is to keep the corners away from the bashing zone.
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13th April 2013, 05:56 PM #3Skwair2rownd
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13th April 2013, 06:18 PM #4
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13th April 2013, 06:53 PM #5
That's one dang purdy knockometer
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3rd June 2013, 03:40 PM #6Senior Member
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I'm considering making myself a mallet also (hopefully it turns out as nice as jrocks) . Wouldn't have the foggiest on where to get my hands on some Tassy myrtle, is there an alternate timber anyone could recommend that readily available ?
Many thanks,
Scott
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3rd June 2013, 05:16 PM #7
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3rd June 2013, 05:55 PM #8
That's excellent Jrock, looks a beauty.
Do you know which edition of Woodsmith mag it was from?
Cheers,
Nathan.
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3rd June 2013, 08:46 PM #9
Hi jrock,
I have had to replace one as well. I guess mallets are to be used and if you can make a replacement then so be it.
I know what you are saying about favourite tools however. As long as it served its purpose then it can rest eazy. Both the ones I made were just the old traditional solid wood ones as the heavy woods available here on the big island hardly need added weight. Myrtle would be too good for a mallet here and saved for something special. Anyhow its a good looker.
Regards
John
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3rd June 2013, 08:52 PM #10New Member
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Mallet
I once made a mallet, because I wanted a heavy one for a job.
I used bits of hardwood that came to hand - beech and oak, I think.
It was a bit crude - laminated, as this one is - the thickness of the handle being the same as the middle leaf of the lamination. So that I could shape a taper by halving the middle leaf at a slight angler, reversing one half, ann separating the halves by the width of the handle.
The whole was glued and screwed.
It lasted for years
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3rd June 2013, 09:49 PM #11
Just the impetus I needed to do the same. A good looking job!
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3rd June 2013, 11:32 PM #12Senior Member
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Im sorry I can't find what issue I had got it from. All I know is it was from the American edition, which was dad's copy. I thought it may have been published in the Australian edition too, but couldn't find it in the index or any of my mags.
I'll take a few measurement of my mallet and sketch a picture, to give you something to work off.
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3rd June 2013, 11:44 PM #13SENIOR MEMBER
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very nice, I made one from blackwood (melanoxylon) a few months back, no where near as fancy but seems to have a nice weight and balance, Now I use it more often than not.
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4th June 2013, 08:11 PM #14Senior Member
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Bit of a rough sketch, but should give the general idea. This mallet is slightly bigger in the head than my old one and has a slightly longer handle.
The head is laminated from 3 pieces, the shaded area indicating the middle section. I used 20mm thick timber for the head and the handle slightly thicker at 25mm to give the tennon a shoulder.
There is no reason why the sizes can't be changed to suit timber available or user preference.
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4th June 2013, 09:02 PM #15
Awesome, thanks Jrock.
Great work once again.
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