Building Beautiful Wooden Mallets!!! How To // Woodworking // DIY

How to build a beautiful hand made wooden mallet. Curly maple, cocobolo, rosewood. Woodworking How To.

DISCLAIMER: Woodworking and the use of power and hand tools can be extremely dangerous. You are responsible for understanding the safe use of your tools and techniques. Your safety is YOUR responsibility, I accept NO responsibility or liability for any injuries, accidents, death occurring to you or others if you attempt to do the things that I do or use advice that I give.

Mid-Michigan Woodworkers Guild Meets in Dewitt MI at the Memorial Building. Meetings are from 7-9pm on the third Tuesday of each month. The meetings consist of a woodworking presentation/seminar, show and tell, info on upcoming local woodworking events, and shooting the sh*t with fellow woodworker. All ages, sexes, and experience levels welcomed!!! Come check it out, or find a club near you. You can thank me later!

[FishersShop]

Wow wow wow, Chris! What a beautiful set of mallets! And again, your craftsmanship astounds me. I would have broke down and used the miter saw and table saw almost immediately. I love that spalted maple handle, gorgeous! But the other elements that you put into each one really set it off from the typical "pretty mallet" build... like the hand-made brass transition and the protruding wedged mortise with the chamfer. But mainly it's just a stellar choice of wood that sets it apart from the rest, you really made some awesome decisions and the design is perfect. I was so excited to see my sticker slapped up on your cabinet! Thanks for the shout out! I just hope I can live up to the hype, haha! Give Utz another bone from Fisher's Shop. :)

[guitarlover]

Hey Chris, gorgeous mallets! One advice, the Germans have a saying which translated means "Life is too short to drink a low quality wine." Thus, we can apply the same idea to your mallets. Just use them and enjoy them. As they get older, thru normal use, they will reveal their true beauty. Cheers. :)

[AJsWargaming]

One of those would be an awesome gift for your friend who is teaching you how to use the lathe. Nothing better than giving back to a friend.

[tompfarrell]

The worst thing about finding channels like yours (and there are not many) is that after a day or so I've watched everything - I can't stop.

Sensational work from the design to the finish. Congratulations.

[davem.]

Absolutely the most stunning pair of mallets I have ever seen, and I am 70 years old. Excellent craftsmanship! This two mallets warrant art exhibit showcase.

Outstanding woodworking skills...that's all can say.

[DylansDIYWorkshop]

possibly the best mallets I've ever seen

[OhHenrysMusic]

This whole time I've been living in Mid Michigan and had no idea there was a club! After this whole Rona stuff calms down I look forward to attending a meeting!

[ericlee]

Poor Utes looks so sad at 1:34. You've obviously done a great job training him. Mallets look fantastic, and I really appreciate your mix of hand and power tools.

[lloydpittonet]

Definitely the maple headed one. The spalted handle looks so cool, but from a structural standpoint, that spalt just ain't gonna last

[tiredsentinel]

Beautiful. Both are beautiful. I don’t know how else to describe them.

[JSaltyfabricator]

Great work man!

Quick tip on filing/rasping from the machinist world:

They only cut on the push stroke. Putting your focus on controlling the push stroke, and lifting the file/rasp off the workpiece on the pull will give a much cleaner cut (not that yours looked bad or anything!) and prolong the life of your tool.

Try pushing with a long stroke and a twisting motion around a radius.

Cheers from Victoria, BC!

[andreassund]

Really nice looking mallets! You gave me a few tips on how to get started 👍

[zaneh]

I have some beautiful Olive tree Mallets, but these are taken to the next level, Absolutely beautiful

[levipeterson]

Chris, I just wanted to let you know you’ve inspired me start woodworking! I have since subscribed to multiple woodworking channels and yours is still, by far, my favourite! Your very easy to listen to, your level craftsmanship inspiring and your videos are so well put together! Keep doing what your doing. (Also I’ve watched your bench build video at least three times cuz I just like that much!)

[JakeThompson]

How in the world am I just now finding your channel??? Beautiful work man!!

[GMMilambar]

That white(ish) and black handled one, is absolutely gorgeous. Not too keen on the other I'm afraid.

[MohamedAhmed-ziru]

5:58 Omg ... feed my soul 😂 i love this part the most

[halfawhiteguy]

wow the spalted handle is my fave, , , beautiful

[romanov]

Великолепная работа! С ручным инструментом получаешь удовольствие, работа становится более интересной и внимательной! Спасибо за прекрасное видео! Удачи! И привет из Москвы (Россия).