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Hi everyone…it's been a long time since I've had a completed project to share…unless you want to see the 5 acres of fencing I've worked on this summer.

…which I seriously doubt… :)

You guys can blame the appearance of this cherry piece on the new Mallets of your Dream thread…after enjoying a few lovely whackers on the thread, I realized I don't even own a real mallet. I've been using a stick of walnut from the firewood pile for so long, I've just become used to the sorry performance. The shame!

So, I carved this guy out this past weekend from a chunk of 16/4 cherry that has been drying in the shop for too long! I used both power and hand tools in the creation…finish is simply BLO.

Overall length is 11.5"; weight is 15oz.

Blog is here.

Any ideas and comments are welcomed…

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Gotta be careful what you say now days. PETA will be after you :)

I don't have an official one either. Well done.
 

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Great job! I'm still amazed that you carved that beast out of one solid chunk!
 

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Monte's right, but suffice it to say that we are not all cat lovers . . . Still a handsome mallet. Looks like a nice (Auriou ?) rasp in the last photo too.
 

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"Cat Whacker…errr".......I can see it happening on Looney Tunes : ) LOL

Very well done !
 

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Beautiful mallet Terry. I have a few sizable chunks of cherry left over from my bench. Hmmmm.
 

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Cool design and it looks super ,great job.
 

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very nice, i gotta make one, i'm always grabbing a board to use as a mallet
 

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nice job i would like too see the fence job too may be a movie of the fence would be best to show how big it really is
 

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Sweet!
 

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Thanks for the kind works, everyone, really the wife and I are cat lovers, so no chance they'll be malleted…

Dude, my friend, you wanna see the fence? OK, here's a long shot…the small blue dot in the distance is my F-250 with big off road tires:



and another shot with our mountain of hardwood in the background:



After clearing the land needed, I dug in just shy of 200 poles…mostly by hand! No kidding! We have a 1/2 acre quarantine pen, and a larger pen of about 4.5 acres. The square fencing PLUS the barbed wire at ground level total nearly 4500 feet…all hand tools there! Both pens meet at our old barn which I'm still re-building to suit our needs…I think I'll be able to say that for years to come!

...but lucky for me…I saved thousands of $$$ by doing the labor myself, so the wife didn't even blink when I dropped a grand on exotic wood yesterday! no kidding! heck, I need to post a photo of all that wood in the front seat of my truck :)
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helluva nice man hammer Terry. And the fence … whoa … props for not farming that one out.
 

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Mallet looks awesome Terry, you have my sincerest sympathies on the fence, LOL.

I would love to see a pic of your exotic wood score…..seems like with a grand you'd have more than just the front seat filled?? Or is it that exotic?
 

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Lucas, I have a pretty huge front seat…and the wood IS that exotic…Bolivian Rosewood, East Indian Rosewood, Wenge, Bloodwood, Cocobolo, Ziricote, Sapele, Makore…will post a photo later today. (I gotta buy guinea feed asap :)

and I earned it the hard way. work. :)
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Terry, Great design! The wood looks so beautiful too. I am looking for a wooden mallet with a similiar traditional shape to ring a large bell. Would you be interested in doing something like that?

Sue
 
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