Looking for a wood mallet or wood hammer may not be quite as exciting as researching what handplane to buy but they are necessary and there are some tips that you should know before you buy any wood mallet or wood hammer.
Brass woodworking mallet. Shop for mallets in maple beechwood rawhide and rubber along with veneer hammers brass hammers tack hammers claw hammers multi tool hammers. Ltd woodworks youtube channel. The faces of the mallet are angled so that they exert force straight downward when used to strike a chisel making this mallet an ideal choice for chopping out dovetails. I used brass for the head.
Making a wooden mallet with brass inlay maker. Dont forget to comment like share and. An option if you don t have a lathe would be use a replacement head for a brass hammer. Carpenter s or joiner s mallet.
Another great project to use up some of those short ends. One is the lee valley veritas journeyman s mallet and the other is a heavier 1 1 2 lb head mallet. In this video i show you how i made my brass mallet i was inspired to make one from a video released by sean rubino and the link to that video is below. Introduction to buying woodworking mallets hammers.
A few years ago i purchased a set of brass head mallets from lee valley that i use occasionally.