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Hello again out there in woodland. I needed a nice heavy mallet for a couple new ray iles mortise chisels I aquired. After seeing what was avaliable through the local wood stores I decided I just needed to build my own. I chopped the mortise in this by hand with the chisel you see here. I'll tell you what I learned, I dont want to chop a whole lot of 3 1/2" deep holes. For the handle I cut the tenon first, then I cut out the rough shape on the bandsaw. For the final shaping I used my trusty #50 wood rasp, then a little sandpaper. To hold the tenon in place I cut a saw kerf along the width of the tenon and drove in a wedge about an inch deep. Works like a charm. I think it looks pretty good. Should make those mortise chisels work a lot faster. thanks for looking.