Making a Badass Woodworking Mallet

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In this video, I show how I created a badass joiners mallet out of some exotic hardwoods and some red oak. I made this mallet for use around the shop, but it looked so pretty that I ended up putting finish on it. The entire build took two days.

The woods used are zebrawood, purple heart, maple, and red oak. The inside is weighted with lead fishing weights to make the mallet extra heavy. The handle was custom shaped out of red oak with a spokeshave to match my grip. No finish was applied to the handle, as I prefer the grip and feel of rough wood.

The head of the mallet is secured to the handle with a double wedged mortise joint, the wedges are made from purple heart for aesthetic purposes.

One face of the mallet is hard maple, and the other face is leather attached with double sided tape (for cases when you want to be sure not to leave a mark on a workpiece).

The final weight of the mallet is 727 grams, or 1.6 pounds. The handle is 8" long, measured from the base of the mallet head. The head is 6 inches by 2 inches by 2 1/8 inches in size.

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Nice use of the spokeshave sir. Nick Offerman would approve.

JoshuaTreeJoinery
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In the words of Cousin Eddie Griswold, "She's a reeeeal beaut, Clark..."

tomkennish
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Always interesting, thank you very much, as always good video! Тhis material contains 16000 variants, and you can learn to do beautiful things yourself: I and my father really liked it👍

holisticregression
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Really beautiful work, dude! 😃
I just subscribed! 😊

MCsCreations
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Obrigado pelo o vídeo para eu aprender boa tamos junto

lrinformaticaevariedades
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I may be late to this question haha, but why you didn't cut an angle on the head??

sirrick
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Which spokeshave are you using? Flat or curved?

aldocoin
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Why did you choose to put glue on the weights instead of letting them free float inside the mallet?

pppppppppp
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Nice job on the hammer. The puppy pic stole the show though. I recommend more gratuitous puppy shots to increase the number of sponsors. I have a girl just like your.

smartlikestick
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Video content was good, the music not so much

reloadNshoot
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How did you attach the hard maple to the face?

aldocoin