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I know this is boring stuff, but I need to prove that I’m still in the shop;)
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I’m working through some plane setting gift mallets for some of my planehead friends on this great site. This one is of 3/4” brass from McMaster (who, as I’ve said many times before, has the most freaky shipping speed of any company I’ve ever dealt with; If I had three thumbs, I’d put them all up). Cheap, too.
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This is simply a rosewood spindle piece that I brought down to 3/8 on the lathe (EZwood finisher). Took is from 120 to 2000. I used a freaky mix to finish it: local beeswax, turp, and a good bit of shredded PennState PPP light and dark bars. I leave a bit cake of local beeswax floating in the mixture and over a few months, it dissolves. I’m no scientist, but it’s a really cool mixture (I actually have the actual ratio concoction if anyone’s interested). I chucked the raspy 3/8” end into my drill press and dressed the dimple left from the tail stock. I left the tenon really dirty.
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I made a pneumatic press back when I was in my pen phase and I started pressing the tenon into the brass, shaving a bit, pressing again, you know the drill. When it was well seated, I burned both sides with a Dagger and you couldn’t twist the head with all your might. This is the first time I’ve tried this.
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I like the heavier weight of the large brass rod. I can’t recall which brass I ordered, but it’s heavy. I also like the shortness of the handle. I can’t really say why, though.
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Anyway, I appreciate you looking at it.
-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog
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Don W
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#1 posted 166 days ago
Nice Al.
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bhog
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#2 posted 166 days ago
Cool mallet Al.Can you describe “burned both sides with a dagger”? It went over my head.
-- They just don't get my chub on.-Bertha on modern handplanes
Bertha
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#3 posted 166 days ago
Hog, I got the tenon as tight as I possibly could under a 1 ton jack pressure, then I burnt both sides with a woodburning tool (Dagger). I’d swear it tightened that thing up tighter than Stef’s Fleshlight.
-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog
bhog
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#4 posted 166 days ago
Aww haa.Cool,thanks.
I thought Stef WAS the fleshlight??
-- They just don't get my chub on.-Bertha on modern handplanes
SPalm
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#5 posted 166 days ago
Nice little wacker.
Seems like you had a nice little time making it too.
Love your finger thingy.
Reminded me of this:
Steve
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a1Jim
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#6 posted 166 days ago
Very nice
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Monte Pittman
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#7 posted 166 days ago
Nice mallet.
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Mosquito
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#8 posted 166 days ago
Very nice, Al.
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Jim Jakosh
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#9 posted 166 days ago
Great handle on that mallet!!!!!!!!!!Thanks for sharing…..........Jim
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waho6o9
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#10 posted 166 days ago
Nice proportions on the mallet Al!
Thanks for posting.
GMatheson
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#11 posted 166 days ago
Nice hammer Al and your buddy looks a lot like my assistant.
Maybe they are related.
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TopamaxSurvivor
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#12 posted 166 days ago
You can whack in style now!
-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0
kiefer
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#13 posted 166 days ago
Nice and well proportioned love the handle .
Looks like there is order in the plane court or else !!!!!!!!!!!
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#14 posted 166 days ago
Stylish Al.
What is the dry weight of a plug like that? What is that end grain goodness you are displaying it on?
Thanks for sharing.
-- ~Tony
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#15 posted 166 days ago
Nicely Done Al, if this doesn’t make the top 40 of the day I will be shocked…...
-- What we do in life will Echo through Eternity........
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