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I just couldn't keep whacking those beautiful Osage Orange wedges in my bench vices with my steel claw hammer. It seemed immoral or at the very least inappropriate treatment of fine hardwood. So I made a dedicated bench mallet. Not a bench chisel mallet although it would and likely will serve that function, but a bench mallet, you know, to hit the bench with.
Like the planes and adjusting mallets I posted recently, this one is made from Osage Orange and Mesquite and like the planes, I couldn't resist a little marquetry. I am easily amused. It is nice and heavy and balances very nicely in my hand.
Like all the hand tools I have been making lately, it is far prettier and nicer than anything I used in my working life. Back then I would have scorned such gentrification of noble working tools. Now I get enjoyment from using nice looking tools that I have made myself.
I also turned a Mesquite handle today for the burnisher I got when I ordered the Hock plane blades. I didn't think it warranted it's own post.
Thanks for looking in.
Like the planes and adjusting mallets I posted recently, this one is made from Osage Orange and Mesquite and like the planes, I couldn't resist a little marquetry. I am easily amused. It is nice and heavy and balances very nicely in my hand.
Like all the hand tools I have been making lately, it is far prettier and nicer than anything I used in my working life. Back then I would have scorned such gentrification of noble working tools. Now I get enjoyment from using nice looking tools that I have made myself.
I also turned a Mesquite handle today for the burnisher I got when I ordered the Hock plane blades. I didn't think it warranted it's own post.
Thanks for looking in.