How To Make A Timber Framing Mallet

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How to make a timber framing mallet. Next make a small nick on the other side of the handle at the bottom of the mallet and the top. As the mallet wood expands it should tighten around your handle organically. This simple project can be mad.
Use the 135mm Commander Mallet to move your logs or timbers to their exact position. I use a 12 chisel and a guide block to cut the right shape mortise. PLANS FOR THIS MALLET NOW AVAILABLE.
The mortise is tapered inside to match the taper on the handle. Not only is it an extremely useful tool but it is a great exercise in skills. Make a Mallet or Two Woodworking Plan.
Its a 3 x 6 and just long enough for the mallet head. Minimizes risk of cosmetic damage to the log or timber due to the larger face of this mallet. Therefore make sure to use mallets if you have to hammer down nails or the wood itself.
Hand-made mallets can be effective and good ones can earn you mild envy from novice woodworkers and friends. The part that goes through the head is left at 1 thick. This wedges the handle in place when it is assembled.
A Joiners wood mallet should be made out of a hard wood like oak maple etc. Roy Underhill showed how to make a joiners wood mallet in his classic TV show The Woodwrights Shop. To start the mortise through the head a 78 hole is drilled.