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Made two of these for Christmas presents, then in the building process decided I wanted one myself. They are made mostly out of reclaimed pallet lumber and some small cutoffs that I had sitting around. Finished with a couple of coats of BLO.
The basic design of the mallets came from ShopNotes #95 Sept. 07. The laminations are thicker in my mallets due to the fact that I don’t have a band saw (yet) for resawing and only resaw on the table saw as a last resort. The mortises were formed after the glue up by drilling the chiseling.
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TreeBones
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#1 posted 1964 days ago
Very nice. I just make mine from oak limb wood and they get trashed when I use them with my fro.
-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3 http://www.portablesawmill.info
rikkor
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#2 posted 1964 days ago
There are very nice.
Douglas Bordner
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#3 posted 1963 days ago
Those are sweet. Did you just form the mortises in the process of gluing up? That seems ingenious to me. Now I have no excuse to make the plane hammers I have been contemplating. Thanks for sharing these.
-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.
Karson
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#4 posted 1963 days ago
Nice mallets. are the gifts used as nut crackers or do you have woodwokers as friends.
-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
RobS
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#5 posted 1963 days ago
from Pallets to Mallets, nice job.
-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX
Bob A in NJ
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#6 posted 1963 days ago
Great design, love these!
-- Bob A in NJ
cajunpen
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#7 posted 1963 days ago
Great looking pallet mallet. Thanks for sharing them.
-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/
Bradford
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#8 posted 1963 days ago
Can you blog or link us to how they were put together? I and probably many more of us LJs would like to make ourselves a couple of them. They definitely add a touch of hand made craftsmanship to a shop. Nice work there FM.
bradford
-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford. Wood-a-holics unanimous president
Blake
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#9 posted 1963 days ago
Nicely done! Those are very attractive and will be fun to use.
-- Happy woodworking! http://www.blakeweber.us
sIKE
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#10 posted 1761 days ago
Those look very nice, I made three using the same plans. My blog on the process is here.
-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"
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