02-04-2025, 08:58 PM
Here's an osage orange and bird's eye maple carving mallet I made for my brother
It's about 3 1/4" in dia at the head, 1 1/4" dia at the handle, 10" long and weighs about 24 oz.
The shape is based on a mallet shown in Wood magazine from about 10 or 15 years ago. When I made my first one, I made a paper template and bonded it to some hardboard. I must have turned 8 of these so far out of various woods.
For this one I had a nice chunk of Osage that wasn't quite long enough. So I searched through my turning stock and found a suitable piece of birds eye maple. After I roughed them to a cylinder, I turned a 1" dia x about 3" long tenon on the handle and drilled a corresponding hole in the head. Then I epoxied them together. After the glue dried I turned it to the final shape and then added my name and date to the handle with my woodburning pen.
The finish is several coats of TruOil gun stock finish. When the finish cured, I buffed the entire mallet to give it a nice glow.
It's about 3 1/4" in dia at the head, 1 1/4" dia at the handle, 10" long and weighs about 24 oz.
The shape is based on a mallet shown in Wood magazine from about 10 or 15 years ago. When I made my first one, I made a paper template and bonded it to some hardboard. I must have turned 8 of these so far out of various woods.
For this one I had a nice chunk of Osage that wasn't quite long enough. So I searched through my turning stock and found a suitable piece of birds eye maple. After I roughed them to a cylinder, I turned a 1" dia x about 3" long tenon on the handle and drilled a corresponding hole in the head. Then I epoxied them together. After the glue dried I turned it to the final shape and then added my name and date to the handle with my woodburning pen.
The finish is several coats of TruOil gun stock finish. When the finish cured, I buffed the entire mallet to give it a nice glow.
See ya around,
Dominic
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Don't you love it when you ask someone what time it is and to prove how smart they are, they tell you how to build a watch?
Dominic
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Don't you love it when you ask someone what time it is and to prove how smart they are, they tell you how to build a watch?