Cat Whacker...errr...Wooden Mallet

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!

-- Jason K

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 !

-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.

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!

-- Mauricio - Woodstock, GA - "Confusion is the Womb of Learning, with utter conviction being it's Tomb" Prof. T.O. Nitsch

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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-- tr ...see one, do one, teach one...

helluva nice man hammer Terry. And the fence … whoa … props for not farming that one out.

-- "there aren’t many hand tools as awe-inspiring as the #8 jointer. I mean, it just reeks of cast iron heft and hubris" - Smitty

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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-- tr ...see one, do one, teach one...

Great mallet.