A friend asked me to do 2 carving mallets for him, and left full size plans.

Not being a carver, I have no idea what woods are preferred or avoided?

He left me some fairly green walnut branch wood, but I'm guessing that for his
mallets I'd want to use something drier, maybe oak or something?

Any suggestions, ideas, flames, etc. welcome as usual..

Feliz Navidad..



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mac davis wrote:

A friend asked me to do 2 carving mallets for him, and left full size plans.

Not being a carver, I have no idea what woods are preferred or avoided?

He left me some fairly green walnut branch wood, but I'm guessing that for his
mallets I'd want to use something drier, maybe oak or something?

Any suggestions, ideas, flames, etc. welcome as usual..

Feliz Navidad..

One piece mallet, the green walnut might work. It might split but....
I've used greenish hard-maple and other domestic hard woods

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In article ,
mac davis wrote:

A friend asked me to do 2 carving mallets for him, and left full size plans.

Not being a carver, I have no idea what woods are preferred or avoided?

He left me some fairly green walnut branch wood, but I'm guessing that for his
mallets I'd want to use something drier, maybe oak or something?

Any suggestions, ideas, flames, etc. welcome as usual..

Feliz Navidad..



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IMHO - Not oak - it tends to splinter. I prefer beech, but also make
them from maple, birch, etc. My "ironwood" (hop hornbeam/blue beech -
and there's debate as to whether those are the same, while ironwood is
at least 70 different species across the globe, according to one source)
is usually too small to get a good sized mallet from. Walnut would be a
bit low-density for my taste in a mallet.

I normally make the one-piece style, from the firewood pile. They end up
in the stove when they have been used up.

If making a two piece (either in the same style as the one-piece or in
the two-piece hammer-style) and operating with a big budget, you can dig
out the lignum vitae. Doing a one-piece in LV these days is a flagrant
waste of material unless you go to a lot of effort to trim off usable
chunks from the handle area before starting to turn.

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mac davis wrote:
A friend asked me to do 2 carving mallets for him, and left full size plans.

Not being a carver, I have no idea what woods are preferred or avoided?

He left me some fairly green walnut branch wood, but I'm guessing that for his
mallets I'd want to use something drier, maybe oak or something?

Any suggestions, ideas, flames, etc. welcome as usual..

Feliz Navidad..



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I have several. Walnut works but may be a little soft. Wild Cherry is
also too soft. Persimmon works great, but doesn't finish up as pretty.
The one-piece mallets are easy and fun to turn. Make several in
whatever woods you have around and let your friend try them and decide .

--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

A naked man never worries about
pickpockets.

On Dec 25, 9:55*am, mac davis wrote:
A friend asked me to do 2 carving mallets for him, and left full size plans.

Not being a carver, I have no idea what woods are preferred or avoided?
snip

Hi, I don't have a lot of experience but FWIW I have made two two
piece joiners mallets one maple and the other oak. I also turned a
carvers mallet out of dogwood. I find the dogwood is the better/
harder of the three.

Someone here mentioned persimon. The older style golf club heads were
made of persimon. Dogwood was also used. I would think that if these
two woods would stand up for golfing they might also do well for
mallets.

Bob

I have made a few.

Cherry: light and too soft.
Osage Orange: really hard but a little light weight.
Pear: Very hard and very heavy. Gave it to my dad and he said it is
to nice to use.

The commercially made mallets that I have seen have been made from
either beech or maple.

Ted

On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:50:33 -0800, Ralph E Lindberg wrote:

In article ,
mac davis wrote:

A friend asked me to do 2 carving mallets for him, and left full size plans.

Not being a carver, I have no idea what woods are preferred or avoided?

He left me some fairly green walnut branch wood, but I'm guessing that for his
mallets I'd want to use something drier, maybe oak or something?

Any suggestions, ideas, flames, etc. welcome as usual..

Feliz Navidad..

One piece mallet, the green walnut might work. It might split but....
I've used greenish hard-maple and other domestic hard woods

Thanks, Ralph...
I turned a little of the walnut last night and it's soft and open grain, so I'll
probably use oak..
They are one piece, sorry for not mentioning that..
Same height and handle, but one has a much larger diameter head than the other..


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On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:33:22 GMT, Ecnerwal
wrote:

I work mostly in Desert Ironwood and though heavy, I can't see it as a mallet...
Too fragmented and cracked..

I had planned to use oak, but now I'll have to rethink that..
OTOH, these are a freebie for a "soon to begin" carver, so maybe the oak would
be ok until he learns a little...



In article ,
mac davis wrote:

A friend asked me to do 2 carving mallets for him, and left full size plans.

Not being a carver, I have no idea what woods are preferred or avoided?

He left me some fairly green walnut branch wood, but I'm guessing that for his
mallets I'd want to use something drier, maybe oak or something?

Any suggestions, ideas, flames, etc. welcome as usual..

Feliz Navidad..



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IMHO - Not oak - it tends to splinter. I prefer beech, but also make
them from maple, birch, etc. My "ironwood" (hop hornbeam/blue beech -
and there's debate as to whether those are the same, while ironwood is
at least 70 different species across the globe, according to one source)
is usually too small to get a good sized mallet from. Walnut would be a
bit low-density for my taste in a mallet.

I normally make the one-piece style, from the firewood pile. They end up
in the stove when they have been used up.

If making a two piece (either in the same style as the one-piece or in
the two-piece hammer-style) and operating with a big budget, you can dig
out the lignum vitae. Doing a one-piece in LV these days is a flagrant
waste of material unless you go to a lot of effort to trim off usable
chunks from the handle area before starting to turn.


mac

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On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:57:03 -0500, Gerald Ross wrote:

I have several. Walnut works but may be a little soft. Wild Cherry is
also too soft. Persimmon works great, but doesn't finish up as pretty.
The one-piece mallets are easy and fun to turn. Make several in
whatever woods you have around and let your friend try them and decide .

Thanks, Gerald...
As you know, my wood choices are very limited here..

I did just remember as I was reading your post that I have some kiln dried
walnut..
I did a set of goblets a few years ago and the client gave me a bunch of walnut
4x4 cutoffs to work with.. That might be an ok choice since it's dry and pretty
solid..
Good idea on making several.. There's probably a market here with all the
ironwood carvings that the locals sell..


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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:01:24 -0800 (PST), Ted wrote:

I have made a few.

Cherry: light and too soft.
Osage Orange: really hard but a little light weight.
Pear: Very hard and very heavy. Gave it to my dad and he said it is
to nice to use.

The commercially made mallets that I have seen have been made from
either beech or maple.

Ted

Thanks Ted.. you rang a real bell there!
I have some cuts off maple bowl blanks that might be big enough..

Damn, this group is just too cool..


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Mac,
Ive used apple to make a few carvers mallets with very good results.
Kevin
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:01:24 -0800 (PST), Ted
wrote:

I have made a few.

Cherry: light and too soft.
Osage Orange: really hard but a little light weight.
Pear: Very hard and very heavy. Gave it to my dad and he said it is
to nice to use.

The commercially made mallets that I have seen have been made from
either beech or maple.

Ted

Thanks Ted.. you rang a real bell there!
I have some cuts off maple bowl blanks that might be big enough..

Damn, this group is just too cool..


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Mac - around here the wood of choice for the heads is Live Oak. It is
a twisty, gnarled, member of the oak family that isn't good for much.
Around here it is bbq and firewood most of the time.

But for as long as anyone can remember it has been a favorite for tool
handles, mallet heads, chisel handles (socket type) and anything else
that can use a smaller piece of wood.

All the carvers around here use it for their mallets, and also make
the old fashioned pattern maker's mallets as well as the cabinet
maker's mallets. As a testimony to its endurance, I have a buddy of
mine that uses one his grandfather made in the '30s. It was made as a
utility mallet and was obviously used to wail the snot out of anything
that was in reach.

This link might work - it's a bowl made from Live Oak. You can easily
see the interlocking grain. Don't look at this picture and think
that's an unusual piece of wood. It's the norm.

http://tinyurl.com/7gzvf9

This stuff grows around here every where. In the next couple of
months I will be making some traditional pattern maker's mallets,
probably with either kiln dried white oak heads or Live Oak, handled
with some mesquite.

Are you making yours for gifts or for personal use?

Robert

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:08:24 -0500, "Kevin Cleary" wrote:

Thanks, Kevin..
Not too many apple trees around my neighborhood, though..lol
(Baja California)

I'm curious, though, if you turned the apple green or dried..
All my experience with fruitwood has been that it turns really nicely green but
immediately cracks..


Mac,
Ive used apple to make a few carvers mallets with very good results.
Kevin
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:01:24 -0800 (PST), Ted
wrote:

I have made a few.

Cherry: light and too soft.
Osage Orange: really hard but a little light weight.
Pear: Very hard and very heavy. Gave it to my dad and he said it is
to nice to use.

The commercially made mallets that I have seen have been made from
either beech or maple.

Ted

Thanks Ted.. you rang a real bell there!
I have some cuts off maple bowl blanks that might be big enough..

Damn, this group is just too cool..


mac

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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:49:55 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

Mac - around here the wood of choice for the heads is Live Oak. It is
a twisty, gnarled, member of the oak family that isn't good for much.
Around here it is bbq and firewood most of the time.

Might be what they call "scrub oak" or "**** oak" in California?

I have several logs drying that are this variety..

snip?
Are you making yours for gifts or for personal use?

A friend brought me some black walnut branch wood from the States, along with
plans for the 2 mallets from some magazine.. (dated 1987)

He wanted to "commission" me to make him a few but I'd rather make it a freebie
than do that kind of business with friends..
As others have pointed out, though, there might be a market for them here..


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Mac,
I turned them dry.I have had some crack but others were ok.
I guess there wouldn't be too many apple trees in Baja.
Have you come up with a wood to use yet?
Kevin
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:08:24 -0500, "Kevin Cleary"
wrote:

Thanks, Kevin..
Not too many apple trees around my neighborhood, though..lol
(Baja California)

I'm curious, though, if you turned the apple green or dried..
All my experience with fruitwood has been that it turns really nicely
green but
immediately cracks..


Mac,
Ive used apple to make a few carvers mallets with very good results.
Kevin
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:01:24 -0800 (PST), Ted
wrote:

I have made a few.

Cherry: light and too soft.
Osage Orange: really hard but a little light weight.
Pear: Very hard and very heavy. Gave it to my dad and he said it is
to nice to use.

The commercially made mallets that I have seen have been made from
either beech or maple.

Ted

Thanks Ted.. you rang a real bell there!
I have some cuts off maple bowl blanks that might be big enough..

Damn, this group is just too cool..


mac

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On Dec 27, 2:23*pm, mac davis wrote:


Might be what they call "scrub oak" or "**** oak" in California?

I don't think so. These trees get to be a few feet around, and some
trees will hit about 40 feet or so. I have seen a couple with a total
canopy of about 60 feet out on old ranches, and in some old city
squares.

While some of the large branches have the size and girth, the wood
twists and moves a lot when drying, so no one uses it for furniture,
etc. But that same snarly/gnarly grain makes it wonderful for things
you don't want to break.

Robert

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:08:28 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

On Dec 27, 2:23*pm, mac davis wrote:


Might be what they call "scrub oak" or "**** oak" in California?

I don't think so. These trees get to be a few feet around, and some
trees will hit about 40 feet or so. I have seen a couple with a total
canopy of about 60 feet out on old ranches, and in some old city
squares.

While some of the large branches have the size and girth, the wood
twists and moves a lot when drying, so no one uses it for furniture,
etc. But that same snarly/gnarly grain makes it wonderful for things
you don't want to break.

Robert

Might be the same thing.. When they brought the oak down, the trunk wood was
about 20" diameter or so..
Don't know how big the tree was, because they used the bottom part of the trunk
for paver rounds..
From the bowls I've turned from it, I'd guess it's the same or close to your
description..


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On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:37:37 -0500, "Kevin Cleary" wrote:

Mac,
I turned them dry.I have had some crack but others were ok.
I guess there wouldn't be too many apple trees in Baja.
Have you come up with a wood to use yet?
Kevin

I think they're going to be a mix, Kevin..

I have some walnut 3x3 cutoffs and a few 4x4x10 slices from a maple bowl blank
that I was going to make goblets out of..
I gave up that idea when I saw how few goblets were selling..

I'd guess that 75% of the pieces that have sold well here are Desert Ironwood..


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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:08:24 -0500, "Kevin Cleary"
wrote:

Thanks, Kevin..
Not too many apple trees around my neighborhood, though..lol
(Baja California)

I'm curious, though, if you turned the apple green or dried..
All my experience with fruitwood has been that it turns really nicely
green but
immediately cracks..


Mac,
Ive used apple to make a few carvers mallets with very good results.
Kevin
"mac davis" wrote in message
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:01:24 -0800 (PST), Ted
wrote:

I have made a few.

Cherry: light and too soft.
Osage Orange: really hard but a little light weight.
Pear: Very hard and very heavy. Gave it to my dad and he said it is
to nice to use.

The commercially made mallets that I have seen have been made from
either beech or maple.

Ted

Thanks Ted.. you rang a real bell there!
I have some cuts off maple bowl blanks that might be big enough..

Damn, this group is just too cool..


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Walnut and maple should be fun to turn.That ironwood sure is pretty
stuff,something I don't see too much of here in Maine.
If you can post some pictures here of the mallets that would nice.
Kevin
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On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:37:37 -0500, "Kevin Cleary"
wrote:

Mac,
I turned them dry.I have had some crack but others were ok.
I guess there wouldn't be too many apple trees in Baja.
Have you come up with a wood to use yet?
Kevin

I think they're going to be a mix, Kevin..

I have some walnut 3x3 cutoffs and a few 4x4x10 slices from a maple bowl
blank
that I was going to make goblets out of..
I gave up that idea when I saw how few goblets were selling..

I'd guess that 75% of the pieces that have sold well here are Desert
Ironwood..


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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:08:24 -0500, "Kevin Cleary"
wrote:

Thanks, Kevin..
Not too many apple trees around my neighborhood, though..lol
(Baja California)

I'm curious, though, if you turned the apple green or dried..
All my experience with fruitwood has been that it turns really nicely
green but
immediately cracks..


Mac,
Ive used apple to make a few carvers mallets with very good results.
Kevin
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m...
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:01:24 -0800 (PST), Ted
wrote:

I have made a few.

Cherry: light and too soft.
Osage Orange: really hard but a little light weight.
Pear: Very hard and very heavy. Gave it to my dad and he said it is
to nice to use.

The commercially made mallets that I have seen have been made from
either beech or maple.

Ted

Thanks Ted.. you rang a real bell there!
I have some cuts off maple bowl blanks that might be big enough..

Damn, this group is just too cool..


mac

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I'm surprised that no one has suggested Elm, particularly Rock Elm for
this mallet. It's hard, is tough to split and of moderate weight.
There's still plenty of American Elm around here, trouble is, it dies
when the trunk gets to about 10" diameter.

Pete Stanaitis
-----------------


mac davis wrote:
A friend asked me to do 2 carving mallets for him, and left full size plans.

Not being a carver, I have no idea what woods are preferred or avoided?

He left me some fairly green walnut branch wood, but I'm guessing that for his
mallets I'd want to use something drier, maybe oak or something?

Any suggestions, ideas, flames, etc. welcome as usual..

Feliz Navidad..



mac

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Dumb question here...

When people say "carving mallet", are they (in general) referring to the
standard "T" shaped mallet or one that is turned around one axis? The "T"
shape would be 2 pieces, a head and a handle and the other would be round
(on one axis) all the way from the handle to the head.

Ed

"spaco" wrote in message
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I'm surprised that no one has suggested Elm, particularly Rock Elm for
this mallet. It's hard, is tough to split and of moderate weight.
There's still plenty of American Elm around here, trouble is, it dies when
the trunk gets to about 10" diameter.

Pete Stanaitis
-----------------


mac davis wrote:
A friend asked me to do 2 carving mallets for him, and left full size
plans.

Not being a carver, I have no idea what woods are preferred or avoided?

He left me some fairly green walnut branch wood, but I'm guessing that
for his
mallets I'd want to use something drier, maybe oak or something?

Any suggestions, ideas, flames, etc. welcome as usual..

Feliz Navidad..



mac

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In article ,
"Ed Edelenbos" wrote:

Dumb question here...

When people say "carving mallet", are they (in general) referring to the
standard "T" shaped mallet or one that is turned around one axis? The "T"
shape would be 2 pieces, a head and a handle and the other would be round
(on one axis) all the way from the handle to the head.


Carving mallets are generally one piece, and not T shaped, two piece

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Mac,

Not sure where you are located. Go for a closed grain, dense wood. I
consider walnut and ash too soft for a carving mallets. I don't care
for red oak either. White oak might be ok. I live in San Diego and I
make them out of sugar gum eucalyptus, They are tough and hard. I
occasionally drive nails with them, but they do get beat up by that.
I would use rock/sugar maple, beech, or birch too. Make sure the head
is flat or concave on the end so the mallet can stand on end.

Joe Fleming
San Diego

On Dec 30, 7:36*am, Ralph E Lindberg wrote:
In article ,
*"Ed Edelenbos" wrote:

Dumb question here...

When people say "carving mallet", are they (in general) referring to the
standard "T" shaped mallet or one that is turned around one axis? *The "T"
shape would be 2 pieces, a head and a handle and the other would be round
(on one axis) all the way from the handle to the head.

Carving mallets are generally one piece, and not T shaped, two piece

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In article ,
"Ed Edelenbos" wrote:

Dumb question here...

When people say "carving mallet", are they (in general) referring to the
standard "T" shaped mallet or one that is turned around one axis? The "T"
shape would be 2 pieces, a head and a handle and the other would be round
(on one axis) all the way from the handle to the head.


Carving mallets are generally one piece, and not T shaped, two piece

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I have made several one piece carving mallets.
I only wish I could find a solution to prevent them from, after a while, cracking.
Aside from not removing the pit I must do something wrong?
I would benefit from any corrective feedbacks.
TIA

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"Denis M" wrote:

I have made several one piece carving mallets.
I only wish I could find a solution to prevent them from, after a while,
cracking.
Aside from not removing the pit I must do something wrong?
I would benefit from any corrective feedbacks.
TIA

Most of the time, cracks are irrelevant. If the wood is greenish, it
will often check (crack) while drying, and the checks will mostly close
up when it fully dries. If starting from dried material, it should stay
put unless you are using an unsuitable wood that actually cracks in
service.

However, you should not have the pith in the piece at all - if you want
a 6" diameter mallet, start with a 12+" diameter log.

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"Ralph E Lindberg" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Ed Edelenbos" wrote:

Dumb question here...

When people say "carving mallet", are they (in general) referring to the
standard "T" shaped mallet or one that is turned around one axis? The
"T"
shape would be 2 pieces, a head and a handle and the other would be round
(on one axis) all the way from the handle to the head.


Carving mallets are generally one piece, and not T shaped, two piece




Thanks. That's what I always called a carving mallet but I've seen both one
and two piece wooden mallets called such.

Ed

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:33:17 -0600, spaco wrote:

Good idea, Pete..
Haven't turned elm in a few years, but I have a friend in NY that's mailed me
elm from his wood pile before.. hmmmm..

I'm surprised that no one has suggested Elm, particularly Rock Elm for
this mallet. It's hard, is tough to split and of moderate weight.
There's still plenty of American Elm around here, trouble is, it dies
when the trunk gets to about 10" diameter.

Pete Stanaitis
-----------------


mac davis wrote:
A friend asked me to do 2 carving mallets for him, and left full size plans.

Not being a carver, I have no idea what woods are preferred or avoided?

He left me some fairly green walnut branch wood, but I'm guessing that for his
mallets I'd want to use something drier, maybe oak or something?

Any suggestions, ideas, flames, etc. welcome as usual..

Feliz Navidad..



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On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:58:14 -0800 (PST), Joe Fleming
wrote:

Hi Joe...
I'm in San Felipe, N. Baja...
About 6 hours from San Diego. 3 hours from Yuma..

I turned a sample one last night out of native eucalyptus and it seemed pretty
light weight, but that could be a species difference, I guess..

Mac,

Not sure where you are located. Go for a closed grain, dense wood. I
consider walnut and ash too soft for a carving mallets. I don't care
for red oak either. White oak might be ok. I live in San Diego and I
make them out of sugar gum eucalyptus, They are tough and hard. I
occasionally drive nails with them, but they do get beat up by that.
I would use rock/sugar maple, beech, or birch too. Make sure the head
is flat or concave on the end so the mallet can stand on end.

Joe Fleming
San Diego

On Dec 30, 7:36*am, Ralph E Lindberg wrote:
In article ,
*"Ed Edelenbos" wrote:

Dumb question here...

When people say "carving mallet", are they (in general) referring to the
standard "T" shaped mallet or one that is turned around one axis? *The "T"
shape would be 2 pieces, a head and a handle and the other would be round
(on one axis) all the way from the handle to the head.

Carving mallets are generally one piece, and not T shaped, two piece

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On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:00:31 -0400, "Denis M" wrote:

snip
I have made several one piece carving mallets.
I only wish I could find a solution to prevent them from, after a while, cracking.
Aside from not removing the pit I must do something wrong?
I would benefit from any corrective feedbacks.
TIA

Don't hit anything with them?

Sorry, couldn't resist it.. smartass mode kicked in before I could stop it..

Are you turning them out of green or kiln dried wood?

Are they cracking from the "inside out"?


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On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:38:19 -0500, "Ed Edelenbos" wrote:

These are a few examples at Woodcraft..

My friend has 2 designs sketched, one with a fairly small diameter head and one
more like the pictures on the link above..




"Ralph E Lindberg" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Ed Edelenbos" wrote:

Dumb question here...

When people say "carving mallet", are they (in general) referring to the
standard "T" shaped mallet or one that is turned around one axis? The
"T"
shape would be 2 pieces, a head and a handle and the other would be round
(on one axis) all the way from the handle to the head.


Carving mallets are generally one piece, and not T shaped, two piece




Thanks. That's what I always called a carving mallet but I've seen both one
and two piece wooden mallets called such.

Ed


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