| Project by Dick, & Barb Cain | posted 328 days ago | 458 views | 0 times favorited | 7 comments |  |
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Someone asked me for the dimensions for a medium sized carving mallet today.
And I realized that I hadn’t posted this as a project yet, so here it is.
I started out with an 1 5/8” square piece of Red Oak, & then glued on some 3/4” thick soft maple for the head.
I should have use hard Maple for this, but It’s all I had at the time.
It’s starting to get kind of beat up, but it still does the job.
I’m going to make a new one, one of these days.
-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1
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MrWoody
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posted 328 days ago
Dick, I appreciate your kindness. Hopefully I can do as well.
Thanks,
John
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Karson
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posted 328 days ago
Very nice Dick and it looks like its had a very servicable life.
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Tony
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posted 327 days ago
Nice to see it has been abused a lot.
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Dick, & Barb Cain
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posted 327 days ago
Thanks to all of you.
It hasn’t been used very much lately, so I better get into the swing of things.
-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1
Grumpy
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posted 326 days ago
It looks like that mallet has had a lot of use Dick.
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jockmike2
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posted 326 days ago
I picked up a couple of those when I bought my lathe, I use them a lot. They work a lot better than a hammer when your doing some light chiseling. Otherwise I use the old standby persuader. You can tell you’ve had a light touch through the years. Mine are not that old, but chewed up pretty bad.
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dennis mitchell
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posted 326 days ago
It does show some age. Nice job.
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