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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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posted 280 days ago
Very nice. I just make mine from oak limb wood and they get trashed when I use them with my fro.
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rikkor
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posted 280 days ago
There are very nice.
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Douglas Bordner
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posted 280 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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posted 280 days ago
Nice mallets. are the gifts used as nut crackers or do you have woodwokers as friends.
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RobS
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posted 280 days ago
from Pallets to Mallets, nice job.
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Bob A in NJ
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posted 280 days ago
Great design, love these!
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cajunpen
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posted 279 days ago
Great looking pallet mallet. Thanks for sharing them.
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Bradford
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posted 279 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.
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Blake
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posted 279 days ago
Nicely done! Those are very attractive and will be fun to use.
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sIKE
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posted 77 days ago
Those look very nice, I made three using the same plans. My blog on the process is here.
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