Osage Orange Mallet

That VERY cool! Fantastic looking.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Very Very Cool…next time my wife questions why I collect drift wood I’ll show her this

-- Cheers

You can get another color using plain waterlox. But that looks very nice. mike

-- Mike. Profisher50@yahoo.com

Thanks Gary, Shawn and Mike.

Shawn – A few of my projects are drift or found wood, so have her check those out too, and pretty soon she’ll be collecting right along with you.

Mike – That color is all wood, the Howard’s darkens it just a hair but no color change. What would the waterlox do?

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

If you find a guy who looks like me in your neck of the woods, just tell him what an osage tree looks like and he’ll be on his way. I want to make an

I think a plane blade slightly curved would make a good replacement for the stone.

-- Thuan

Hey Thuan. I’ll keep my eye out for a piece like that, should not be too hard to find…

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Rob,

I really like the look of this piece. This is a nice use of “found” wood.

Thanks for sharing.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

awesome.
You guys are having too much fun!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

What a neat find! It looks sooo good…

-- Maplewood, MN

Thanks for the mallet – and the encouragement to USE it. I’m sure it’ll help coax lots of things into place, bits of lumber, plugs, 16 penny nails, railroad spikes and the random 4 (or 8) legged shop visitor.

it feels solid – and might even outweigh my hammer.

Keep those ideas on the back burner, I have a couple for future years… useful and beautiful things (tools of different sorts) I haven’t attempted yet.

-- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative

Great discovery Rob. A real caveman tool.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Very nice find, all I have is fallen pine and oak where i live.

That is neat. Pine and oak is about all I ever get around here.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Wow. Can I tromp through your woods?

-- Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Thanks everyone. And yes, Trifern, any lumberjock is welcome to check out the woods in my area.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Very, very nice – I’ve been wanting to get my hands on some osage orange for a long time. Any chance of some kind of trade, Rob? All we have up here in Maine is is lobster, and they don’t make very good mallets!

-- "No Board Left Behind"

I just got my hands on some osage, looking forward to doing something with it.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Hi Rob;
—-great mallet there//here.....since the osage orange is now residing in NH or on it’s way to the woodworking hands of Scott. Here comes an-other piece of Texas wood, that is going to be waking up in the colds of snow….

I have never used the ‘Howard’s Orange Wax and Feed’, but am planing on looking around here for some to try out.

....the thought just came to me that it want be long and you’ll be having all kinds of LumberJocks tromping through the fields of your woods down there in Texas….LOL.

Thanks for sharing this one with us here at LJ.
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Excellent mallet! I am really impressed that 1. you saw this sitting in the tree, and 2. were able to execute it wonderfully. This ranks as one of the coolest mallets I have ever seen.

Frank, Howard “Feed N Wax” is awesome stuff. I use it constantly, it is my favorite lubricant for use when rubbing out finishes, and it is a superb overall furniture wax/polish as well. Smells nice, too. If it were in a different labeled bottle, it could be sold for massage oil.

-- Just another woodworker

Hey Thuan, just walk along almost any old fence row near Dallas and you should find Osage (or Bois d’arc). As RobS says, it’s native to the North Texas area, but was planted along many fence rows too.

-- North Texas

massage oil… that’s funny… I could still see that though, Afterall Howards is what keeps our hands from turning to anything south of 220 grit – and way more manly than palmolive ;)

-- The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation. -- Wood T's: http://www.printfection.com/snbcreative

Thanks Everyone! I appreciate the comments.

Frank-
.. from blistering to blizzard, I’d have to imagine one of the first things that wood said when being exposed to NH was “ahhh!”. After decades in the 100+ temps, it probably would bask in the snow.

Howard's is great, and it’s funny that Scott and I both used it on our gifts to each other this time, without even talking about it.

And as far as Lumberjocks searching for treasures in the woods around my house, well bring ‘em on, maybe we could get it sponsored, ha.

Schwingding -
”one of the coolest mallets ever” wow, that is quite a compliment, thanks! And I like to think I have a knack for “seeing” projects within the wood.

Tom-
you are right, I still notice osage, bois d’arc, horse apple trees all over the DFW area.. It’s a shame so many people think they are trash trees.

Thanks again!

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

This is a great idea. I have large piles of the stuff lying around on my wifes farm. I would like to know how well it works? I might like to try it.

-- Terry Roswell, L.A. (Lower Alabama) "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans."