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    Default Mallet Head Replacement

    On 20th June 2012, in the thread Ebay Droppings Thread (post 921) I wrote

    Quote Originally Posted by Vann View Post
    Hmmm... I need a mallet head. I wonder if the timber would be suitable...

    I bought a mallet on Trademe. It looked fine in the photo. When I unpacked it there were 50 borer holes in the other side .
    NZStu offered me a piece of New Zealand grown English Oak, and dropped it at my place a few weeks later.

    I liked the mallet. It was a shape and weight that suited me, and I kept using it until it was a complete write-off and I just had to make a new head…

    Mt1ML.jpg Mt1aML.jpg

    The oak was not thick enough to make the head in one piece, but I don't know that I have the skills to mortise a hole for a one piece head anyway, so my intention was to make a three-layer laminated head. In the end I made it two laminations, cutting the tapered slot for the handle with my SCMS.

    Mt2ML.jpg Mt3ML.jpg

    I should have taken more care to align the grain in both pieces .

    NZStu hasn’t posted here since 2013, but I’d like to publicly thank him for so kindly giving me the timber. The mallet now has a new lease of life, and I have a good tool again. Thanks Stu.

    Cheers, Vann.
    Gatherer of rusty planes tools...
    Proud member of the Wadkin Blockhead Club .

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    Nice one Vann,
    I like that you used the old handle so it is still the same mallet just with a new head.
    Regards
    John

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    Bit excessive, you could've used the good side of the old mallet...
    We don't know how lucky we are......

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    Quote Originally Posted by orraloon View Post
    I like that you used the old handle so it is still the same mallet just with a new head.
    Just like the fabled grandpa's axe - 5 new handles and 3 new heads over its/his lifetime, but it's still the same old axe.
    I got the handle, the shape, and the inspiration from the old mallet - so, yup! it's still the same mallet .

    Quote Originally Posted by seanz
    Bit excessive, you could've used the good side of the old mallet...
    You know me Seanz. I'm a bit impulsive at times. This impulse only took 3 years...

    Cheers, Vann.
    Gatherer of rusty planes tools...
    Proud member of the Wadkin Blockhead Club .

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    I am still alive! Just been very busy with woodworking's crude, loutish brother: house renovations

    Good job with the mallet John...

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