Man, now I feel bad for whoever gets my mallet. I may have to make them another and send it out to make up for mine.

 

Hammerthumb, I'm glad the mallet made it in good shape! It's Osage orange for the head. I apologize if there are marks in the face, I beat on some metal backed chisels pretty hard to make sure the splits wouldn't propagate prior to filling the cracks with epoxy. If it ever breaks or splits, please let me know.

Hope you've got some arm on you cuz that thing is a crusher.

 

Some sweet looking mallets here fellas.

Jmart that's cool you offered to make Eddie a mallet if his doesn't show. It just so happens that Eddie and I live in the same town, and since I got 2 1/2 mallets I also feel like the right thing to do is offer one of them to Eddie if his doesn't show. So keep us posted Eddie and we'll get ya taken care of either way!

P.S. - Don that one that was repaired is warrantied right? ;-)
Locust and birch, sweet!

 

My new tool gloat/ smasher!!! Thanks Hammerthumb!

It's a beast! Has some cool pin work too.

I don't mind the Initials at all.

Thanks for the letter included too. I wish I would have done something like that. Very cool!

Rip- Hopes you like it. Now you can see why I didn't want it leaking!

Thanks to Terry for a cool Christmas in July!

 

PAJA, I already put it to use. It is smaller than my other shop made one, and it balances beautifully. Love it!

 

Glad you like it PAJA. I'll try to get a project post up later today. The assembly of this is a little different and will require pictures to explain. Hope it works well for you.

Thanks for the correction of the wood species Pez. Never worked with osage. It is really dense stuff. Was wondering why the grain looked so different from yellowheart. Really cool stuff. Can you tell me how the handle is attached?

 

Some seriously awesome mallets!! Excited to get home and open mine from Mos!!!!

 

Lots of nice whackers so far.

Here is the one I got from Reds shop. Bubinga with a White Oak handle and big brass pins.

It's got nice weight and is the perfect size for most of my pounding needs. All it needs is some leather faces so I don't dent everything with it. Thanks Red. I really like it

 

Great looking Mallets so far guys !!!!

Big THANK YOU to TerryR for hosting this swap !!!!!!!

 

Glad you like it Greg. I nearly put some leather on the faces but I didn't know if that's what my recipient would want. Easily done though.

I have it's twin in my shop. Now I can bring it out of hiding.

 

Thanks, 7Footer, that sounds like a good plan.
PM coming your way…

EDIT…And, Eddie's mallet was coming from Canada, so maybe another few days will see it turn up?

 

Ok guys, I was lucky enough to get Airframer's mallet, but if you want to see it, and I know that you do, you'll have to endure this little video short I threw together to commemorate this momentus occasion, my first swap here on Lumberjocks!

Please enjoy. Watch it 'til it ends! Pics to be posted in a bit…

(Thanks Eric! I LOVE IT!)

*Mos! I hope you enjoy the mallet. It's made of a very special Black Mulberry wood (Morus *************************) which is the very same wood from a still living tree (that bears delicious fruit every other year) that GOT me started into wood working last spring. Once I saw how gorgeous and hard it was, I had to learn more (rest is history).

I included a chunk of the black mulberry for you as well. The handle is reclaimed walnut (it was a paint stirrer stick from a cabinet shop in its former life) accented with black mulberry. The brass pins are salvaged from a local metal works, and the maple wedges/inlay came from that same cabinet shop. Box is balsa wood from a pallet originating outta India.

 

Palaswood-- well done! and one goregous mallet!! Love it. Airframer outdid himself!

 

My goodness it IS like Christmas in July!

Hammerthumb, the handle is just attached with mortise/tenon and glue. I hope this isn't a bad thing? I noticed everyone else has theirs pinned or wedged… Now I'm paranoid.

 

Dear heavens. You guys have made amazing mallets. Good work all.

 

Don't be paranoid. It's just a mallet. If it gets loose, I might have to find a woodworker to get it fixed. Have a little time to post a picture of how I assembled the mallets I sent.

As the wood was exceptionally dry (Las Vegas climate - wood 4-5%), I made it so if the wood has a tendency to expand, it should only make the head tighter. At least in theory! ;-) Hope mine does not have any issues either.

It's difficult to make something for a different climate. Don Broussard made a plane for me in the plane swap that by the time it got here and had shrunk (he's in the gulf coast), I had a hard time getting the iron out of the plane. A few adjustments fixed it.

I'll let you know how it works though. Should have time to take it for a test drive this evening.

 

^I didn't make that nice of a joint, but I think my 1/2" brass pins should hold;-)

Got mine posted. Even dedicated a song to my new Canadian friend….

 

Y'all are really displaying some very NICE / COOL mallets!

 

I think I won the lottery, not the swap. Thanks 7footer!

We start here

Incredible packing job. Nothing in here was gettin hurt, but wait till you see what is in there.

First, a well documented letter, complete with build pics, materials, finish and final weight. Then a hat from 7'sbusiness.

Next up, the mallet. A real whopper. Oak, purpleheart, and cherry, loaded with lead shot in the end to make it like a dead blow. All that coming in around 42 ounces of beatin the crap outa stuff. Friggen sweet.

7 took signing it to a whole new level. Yeah, he put his initials on it. Yeah it says 2014. But he called up my LJ buddy Bob who lives here in town and asked what I was into. Bob told him bikes as that is my other hobby, so 7 put a bike on the mallet too.

Then he put an Oregon quarter in the other end as that's where he's from. (nice touch)

Then there is a magnet in the top. Why is there a magnet in the top? Cause he built a base to store it when not in use, of course.

But there is still one package left. What could it be? Hmmmm. Heavy. Mallet shaped. Nope, 22 oz of Oregons finest Citus Mistress.

Definitely Christmas in July at Johns house! Thanks bro! Totally friggen awesome!

 

Wow! 7footer that is the way to do it!! Congrats john2005!

 

Dang 7. You're like the guy who brings an iPod to yankee swap

 

Nice mallet! What a score John. 7 did you right.

 

Lol, man I had this whole plan for a bonus item (2nd mallet) and it fell through, so I was trying to make up for it!

 

2cool 7footer way to go!

Strong work and some incredible mallets.

 

7- I think we would get along just fine…
-Mallet
-Magnet
-Beer

#brothafromanothamotha