Rubber mallet vs dead low hammer
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(09-23-2019, 06:25 AM)WxMan Wrote: Me, too.  The orange dead blow is my go-to beater.  Must be an Iowa thing.

I have both the 1 lb orange dead blow and a rubber mallet.  Never use the rubber mallet.

I have been making a concerted effort to remember that I turned a round mallet from a big chunk of apple wood last year to whack chisels with.

I have a rubber mallet around here somewhere.  I stopped using it because it made marks on my wood.  I think I removed it from the drawer because it made the drawer hard to close, but not sure where I put it.

I bought a metal lathe and took my orange hammer out to use it there.  Yep, grease and oil all over the hammer - so I bought a black hammer for the wood shop.  I just couldn't get used to using the black hammer in the wood shop, so I bought another orange hammer for the metal lathe and brought my original orange hammer back into the wood shop.  Now my drawer is crowded again - because I have an orange hammer in there as well as a black hammer (which I rarely use in the wood shop).

Yea, I know.  Why is my life so difficult?


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(09-23-2019, 07:51 AM)6270_Productions Wrote: I have a rubber mallet around here somewhere.  I stopped using it because it made marks on my wood.  I think I removed it from the drawer because it made the drawer hard to close, but not sure where I put it.

I bought a metal lathe and took my orange hammer out to use it there.  Yep, grease and oil all over the hammer - so I bought a black hammer for the wood shop.  I just couldn't get used to using the black hammer in the wood shop, so I bought another orange hammer for the metal lathe and brought my original orange hammer back into the wood shop.  Now my drawer is crowded again - because I have an orange hammer in there as well as a black hammer (which I rarely use in the wood shop).

Yea, I know.  Why is my life so difficult?


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I don't have a rubber mallet or a dead blow hammer...I do have a large rawhide mallet for woodwork, steel hammers out the wazoo and both a copper and a lead hammer for my metalworking machines...Machinists have used lead hammers for more than 100 years to center stock in their lathes.....One can never have too many hammers.
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I have a rubber mallet, but it's somewhere in the shop covered with dust . . . . replaced by wood and dead blow long ago . . . .
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(09-23-2019, 08:32 AM)Timberwolf Wrote: ...........................
I don't have a rubber mallet or a dead blow hammer...I do have a large rawhide mallet for woodwork, steel hammers out the wazoo and both a copper and a lead hammer for my metalworking machines...Machinists have used lead hammers for more than 100 years to center stock in their lathes.....One can never have too many hammers.
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". . . never have too many hammers."

Agreed - but you gotta get bigger drawers.


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(09-23-2019, 09:30 AM)6270_Productions Wrote: ". . . never have too many hammers."

Agreed - but you gotta get bigger drawers.


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(09-23-2019, 01:52 PM)Timberwolf Wrote: ....................
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#36
For bench work and something that doesn't get in the way, I made what I call a hand knocker. An old rusty ball hitch with compressed leather pads on one end. If a metal surface is fine, you just turn it around and use as a hammer- works on nails too.


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 I glue the leather and use high pressure in the press to compress it.
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#37
Once I tried using a rubber mallet for joint assembly. Once.

It just bounced right off. And it lleft marks on the wood.

Now I keep it around for occasional auto repair jobs--not for woodworking.
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#38
I have 20+ hammers. Pick hammer, chip hammer, square/round body hammer, rubber one, soft plastic end hammers, tack hammers, pin hammer, claw and frame hammers, small and big ball peen hammers, wooden hammers/mallets, arm & hammer, sledge hammer. Many as old as I am.

Hardly use most of them, but boy do they look impressive hanging up in the shop.
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