Chisel Mallet

Nice work Bruce. I need to make one of these as soon as I get my lathe up and running.

-- Lee - Northern idaho~"If the women don't find you handsome, at least they ought to find you handy"~ Red Green

Lovely combination, with the bloodwood and walnut.

-- ian | "You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity."

Nice looking carvers mallet.

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Nice…how does the bloodwood hold up? I don’t have any experience with it.

-- How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.

I think it should hold up. This is the first time I’ve used bloodwood. The place I get my wood from has a bin of cutoffs they sell and I picked up a piece of bloodwood to play with. It is quite a bit harder than Purpleheart and yellowheart. The piece I got has some pretty wild grain. It planed real well. When I ran it thru the jointer 1/2 the edge looked real nice and the other half chipped out real bad. I turned it around and the results were just the opposite. It turned really well and had a pleasant smell. I’ll use it on some more projects.

-- Bruce, Boise, ID

Really nice looking woods. I’ll have to get some of that blood wood.

-- In the end, when your life flashes before your eyes, will you like what you see?

Too pretty to use—really nice job though.

-- John C. -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." George Washington

I subscribe to the theory that nice looking tools just make the job that much more pleasant.

-- Bruce, Boise, ID

It can’t just look good though. It has to perform well too. If it doesn’t perform well it just sits there and looks good, of course if that is what it is designed to do than it is performing well. lol

-- In the end, when your life flashes before your eyes, will you like what you see?