Where did I fuck up?
I want a mallet I could pound the absolute fuck out of, any suggestions?
Buy one.
>>1001514
kek
Should lend you my wife OP
>>1001516
topkek
>>1001511
Use milk jugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyP7YJ9O3TY
>>1001511
Form the head with the grain going the other direction. Imagine holding a bundle of paper. If you smash it into a table end on, the paper is going to get all fucked up, bent, distorted. If you smash it into a desk face first, it will absorb the blow much better. Having your grain like that allows the force of blows to transmit and cause cracks along the growth rings. Also, what is that, oak? Mahogany? I would recommend shelling out a couple bucks and getting something exotic. Wenge, Hickory, Brazilian Rosewood, etc. Pic related.
>>1001524
It's funny cause I live in brazil and here those "exotic" woods are pretty common and cheap, I'll give it a try. I dont know what wood I used on the mallet head that broke, but from shaping it I could tell it was pretty soft (the handle is also unknown, but hard as fuck)
>>1001524
Hardness would only make the head of the mallet more durable. It may still shatter on impact.
OP wants a really tough wood. Like hickory, which is the most favored wood for hammer and axe handles.
BTW, OP. You can repair that mallet easily by clamping it together with glue. It may fail again, but not in the same spot.
>>1001528
dood get me some brazilian ebony plz
>>1001535
A piece of trivia: Here in Brazil It's called "pau-ferro" (iron wood), some say that the name comes from the mettalic sound axes make when they cut it. The pieces in the picture are 4x3x14 cm and cost R$ 10,00 each (about 3 dollars).
>>1001511
>>1001540
I don't have a lathe.
>>1001511
The point of making a mallet yourself is that you make it out of wood and don't care so much if you beat the shit out of it, since you can always make another.
I made mine from solid maple, and though I've beaten the shit out of it it still seems to be holding up quite well.
>>1001511
4 wood screws, problem fixed.
>>1001541
all you need is a log, a smaller log, and a drill bit
clean off the larger log, drill down into the center of the end, clean the smaller log and shave the end till if fits snug in the hole, glue it up
>>1001560
shoot, you could even just make it out of one log, carving it out with a hatchet/saw/chisel
>>1001511
Probably cheap red oak. Grain is going the wrong way. Anytime you hammer you're trying to split the head.
Have you ever chopped firewood? Ever seen someone do it? You've essentially recreated that situation with your handle and head
>>1001511
Paul Sellars has a video on making a mallet on youtube you should check that out i guess
Isn't the problem that you used a splint / key whatever its called to hold the head in place and it split apart the wood. when most mallets have a wider shaft at the top.
>>1001511
lol log splitting mallet.
>>1001523
This guy knows.
>>1001511
You used a wedge to hold the head in place. The wedge split the head open like a wood splitter. Pin it with a dowel next time.
you should've reinforced the maul head with steel rings around each end
>>1001511
my favourite mallet style is the roll of rawhide in a steel clamp head.
honestly it's not as nice as a shot-filled deadblow but you can replace the rawhide and keep it going for generations, i still use my great-grandfathers.
>>1001672
>Hmm...seems me mallet is a bit worn
>Head down to the rawhide store
>Wait, this isn't 1844 and there's not rawhide readily available in stores
>MFW
>>1001675
Type in "Buy rawhide" into google, how hard was that?
>>1001675
>>1001523
"Truth be told, I've not been allowed to use the kitchen blender after that."
>>1001675
Lol you suburbanite.
>>1001675
>Wait, this isn't 1844 and there's not rawhide readily available in stores
You can get it at literally every pet supply store on the planet, nigga.
>>1001511
I tend to use a rubber mallet more than a wooden one, cord wrap the handle for better grip and away you go, I only use wooden mallets for chiselling work.
>>1001682
probably boil or steam it then burn your hands to shit and drop it on your feet and fall backwards onto a scrap wood pile and get tetanus from a misplaced nail
i could be wrong though
>>1001692
Rollin rollin rollin
>>1001535
I regularly work with Ipe. It fucking sucks to work with. Destroys all my blades and tools.
>>1001535
>search brazilian ebony
>get porn
bueno
From the master
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365021538/
>>1001511
glue it back together and just get on with it.
>>1001511
Time for glue and clamps. Easy fix.
Also use something that self splits but can't be damaged by conventional weapons, like wild plum wood (Prunus Americana). The mallet I made here is all wild plum wood and was made while the wood was still green. It split that much when it dried. It hasn't split or checked more since then. That was several years ago and I've used it a ton and still haven't needed to refinish the faces. I swear you could make nails out of this wood.
Another amazing wood is American Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana) which is also called "Iron wood". Which is the strongest wood I know of and once used to make wagon axles.
>>1001692
Soak it, shape it, dried it. Google it.
>>1001894
what have you done to me... I can't stop watching.
>>1001956
I had to stop watching him, I was starting to rage, he flits about too much, jumping from one thing to another like he has ants in his pants or some shit
>>1001970
keep in mind it's a show, and it's all shot in one go. It's understandable he had some things pre-prepared. Didn't seem like he was jumping in a direction that wasn't forward.
>>1001675
tandyleather
>>1001980
yeah...he can't exactly take his sweet time, and with the kind of people the show is catering to, he shouldn't need to take baby steps
The mallet split apart because the wedge forced it apart. It applied force to where the wood is weakest - parallel to the grain. Next time you try, try wedging it the other way.
>>1001765
RAWWWWW HIIIIDE
RAWHIDE!
*Johnny Test whiplash*
>>1002133
Original Rawhide theme whiplash = best whiplash.
>>1001894
Thanks, nice to see woodworking outside of youtube!
>i didn't know pbs was as good as tv.nrk.no
>>1001894
He literally performs no work, what the hell? Just shows one stroke of the plane, one chop of the hatchet, one thump of the mallet...
What kind of long odds fraud is this?
>>1001894
Seriously the worst woodwork show I've ever seen in my sinful miserable life. God damn, that showbiz fool has NO skill. GROSS how they lay it all out to be "oh here I'm working on this thing" when it's obviously not him.
>>1001894
>I'm gonna use an auger to make the hole
motherfucker where the HELL is your god damn makita? Nobody who makes money or persists hobbying off making wooden objects uses motherfucking augers.
Why did you link this imbecile?!
>>1002167
Shut your fucking mouth, nigger. He is the Jesus Christ of woodworking.
>>1002170
This has to be a meme, seriously.
The HDPE mallet made more sense than "making an octagonal handle" after you've knocked it into the fucking head. Why the hell would you even apply pressure in that direction after you've fastened the handle? If you can't NOT shave off the part that needs to be full size for the locking to the head, you've nothing behind a wood bench to do.
Jesus fucking Christ.
God damn you idiots are easily fooled. Place a few cartwheels and split saws in the background, plop a sixpence and some suspenders on some pornstached retard and what, you think you're looking at a woodworker?
>>1002168
He should be the patron saint of this board, as a matter of fact. No one does it himself like Saint Roy.
"Now this needs a little bit of more work to do [sic], but the best part"
>picks up a mallet that is stained, sanded, actually worked on
"We made it ourselves!"
>oh god
"now when you hit that chisel with a mallet, it's gonna retain some of that energy, it's gonna release it
>slowly
into that wood"
WHAT
THE
FUCK
AM
I
WATCHING
>>1002168
>>1002170
>pic related, what the hell man.
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365554510/
he talks about the wood "drying as he changes from one tool to another" after ruining it entirely by being unable to use a fucking bandsaw.
What, you think it's charming to watch some rumbling fucktard that looks like your grampa use tools that literally nobody uses anymore to ruin woods that cost more than the actual tools you'd use if you knew what to do?
Is this for the same reason "new memephone seven minus crushed on launch date" videos are popular? Can you retards just not help yourselves?
>>1002177
>rumbling fucktard that looks like your grampa use tools that literally nobody uses anymore
people like you can't even
>>1002178
What, can't even meme right? I'm not in the S club 7 or some shit? Fuck you. I'll stand for incompetence when people start being humble again. Until then, go fuck yourself. Roy Underhill is a literal retard with no skill, placed as an extra in a show written in a boardroom, with the singular purpose of showing off hand tools that were used to work wood before electricity was common.
With the pretense that this is how wood is worked.
He is part of the propaganda that causes young promising males to veer away from an honest and rewarding career as a carpenter to pursue some fucking masters in gender studies or computer science that won't pay for itself until the bank you owe money crashes.
He's part of the movement that shuns technology for being "immoral" all the while raking in dollaronies from sham shows about irrelevant topics.
He's the popsci of woodworking. And this meme is cancer.
>>1002178
>publications
>from 81 to 04 or whatever
he's a writer, not a woodworker. Were he a woodworker he'd work wood, not write about it.
Every video I've seen with him carries on the impression of "I'm not really doing anything here but I know the tricks to make it look like I am"
Just like Jeremy Clarkson makes it look like he knows a lot about cars by bitching about everything that doesn't go VRUM.
God damn theres no wonder why the US is going to shit, if you seriously think conmen like this have any place in the media.
>>1002179
let us know when you get your wood working book published, start hosting a show, and have it run for more than 30 years
>>1002183
>having shit on air is proof of anything other than pleasing the network heads
let "us" know when you realize your head is lodged somewhere between the "colon" and the "rectum".
God damn, this is too fucking terrible for me, no wonder americans are so fucking stupid, they think this is what a craftsman look like.
>>1002183
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365554475/
Oh look, he actually does something
He makes a bowl.
In the same way we did in elementary. On our own.
GOOD to see he finally managed to make something.
Oh wait, he needed an actual woodworker to do it for him. Nevermind.
>>1002179
You're trolling too hard son. We can all see what you're trying to do. Here's your (you).
>>1002188
What the fuck, your country is unsalvageable...
>>1002185
enjoy knowing I will keep watching his show to encourage them to keep him on the air, and he will continue to be more successful than you
>>1002191
>PBS
yeah, vote with your wallet, buddy. Good idea.
Try some trickle down economy and market theory while you're at it.
Oh, and invest in real estate. It's so safe.
God damn, your brain is a fucking meme soup, how do you even breathe.
>>1002193
being apart of the glorious american master race is a gift, but also a burden
>>1002194
Sorry for getting all emotional, I had an uncle who used to speak just like you.
>>1002195
was he roy underhill?
>>1002197
Nah, his name was Ben. Roy is a pedo, not an "uncle".
>>1002198
I figured your uncle was a pedo
>>1002202
I say, you did indeed beat me. Good Job Jenkins. Now be quiet as I fuck your girlfriend, or lose your job.
>>1001894
Paul Sellers is better.
>>1002199
Pretty neat vid actually. Not sure what you're trying to say about Roy in the process, he was the first master housewright at Colonial Williamsburg so I'd bet he's familiar with the techniques they're using and has probably performed many of them. Sorry, but through the whole thing all I could think was that the Swedish Chef was doing the voice over for a primitive construction video.
>>1002177
>What, you think it's charming to watch some rumbling fucktard that looks like your grampa use tools that literally nobody uses anymore to ruin woods that cost more than the actual tools you'd use if you knew what to do?
Triggered much, kid?
That wood is also Sycamore. If you've ever worked sycamore you'd know exactly why he's doing what he does with it for good or bad.
>>1002199
>let's whittle down giant logs so they are as thick as 2x4s at the joints
Log cabins are such a waste.
make the head out of red ironbark and slightly bigger
>>1001524
dont do this
>>1001680
Type "buy mallet" into google
>>1001524
>>1001915
Schinopsis spp. "Quebracho" Axe Breaker has a Janka Hardness of 4,570 (77 lbs/ft3)
American Hornbeam Janka Hardness: 1,780 (49 lbs/ft3)
Apple Janka Hardness: 1,730 (52 lbs/ft3)
European Hornbeam Janka Hardness: 1,630 (46 lbs/ft3)
Plum Janka Hardness: 1,550 (50 lbs/ft3)
Sycamore Janka Hardness: 770 (34 lbs/ft3)
http://www.wood-database.com
Anything in the 1,000 range and higher should work very well as a mallet.
>>1002322
>>1001680
>type into google:
>how to lease land from landowners
>how to buy and raise calves
>how butcher cows and make rawhide
>what trees are best for tool handles
>how to grow said trees
>how to harvest and work wood from said trees
>how to locate iron ore
>how to smelt iron ore
>how to metalcast a rawhide mallet head vise
>how to put together a raw hide mallet with wood handle and metal head vise
You may need to google more about how to make your cutlery to use for butchering the cows. Mining the blood minerals for making a PC or iPod are optional.
>>1002177
>What, you think it's charming to watch some rumbling fucktard that looks like your grampa use tools that literally nobody uses anymore to ruin woods that cost more than the actual tools you'd use if you knew what to do?
What the fuck is wrong with you? No, seriously? Why did you feel the need to splerg out on an old PBS show where a craftsman uses old timey hand tools to build stuff? Some of us appreciate what it takes to work wood with nothing but a sharp edge and and some muscle. Do you splerg out on blacksmithing threads tool? They use inefficient means to craft up some cool stuff.
Stick to jewtube videos you spoon fed retard. "Grampa" taught everything you need to know about building a mallet with just hand tools. His show assumes the viewer has some basic knowledge and skills. It's not catering to baby's first project. If you don't like it just shut the hell up and move on.
>>1002177
>ruin wood
yeah he should really use all power-tools with no regards to grain and create mass-produced garbage rather than historical recreations that will last forever.
He uses wedge and edge to split wood along the grain so that every piece he uses has the grain oriented perfectly. His pieces will last forever. He doesnt use slant-grained bandsaw-cut 1 bys from the lumber yard like a fucking scrub.
Read one of his books. He knows what he's talking about.
and if you're sleeping on Roubo, get the fuck out.
>>1001956
there's a torrent on public trackers with a few eps from the 80s that are good.
and if you prefer power tools, watch The New Yankee Workshop.
PBS is GOAT
>>1002185
>pleasing the network heads
it's PBS you retard. They provide educational content for the public good.
you dont know shit about woodworking. Stick to MDF, laser guided saws, and repurposing pallets for your loft.
>>1003353
norm is the tits....don't forget the Woodturning Workshop
(https://www.youtube.com/user/woodturningwithtim1/videos)
the american woodshop isn't nearly as good, but watchable
unfortunately they tainted the waters with that Tommy Mac junk, and I cannot stand the woodsmith shop....they always have to point at things with perfectly sharpened pencils and it seemed they never actually did anything
>>1001524
>brazilian ebony flooring
must be rich as fuck to have that.
anyways, hes right, turn the grain so its perpendicular to the striking surface and it wont split as easy.
what kind of wood are you using?
>>1001765
Keep on rolling, baby
Know what time it is
>>1001877
Top kek
>>1001511
> two bits glued on
The glue broke you ding dong. Use a solid piece and bore a tight fit for the handle and either use a super-thin pin or a wedge (and glue) to hold it in place.
>>1002168
I think Jesus was the Jesus of woodworking bro
>>1001511
Should have put a couple steel bands around either end.
>>1004106
Nah, he was the Jesus of carpenters. Its not really the same thing. Carpenters are to woodworkers what the guy at Jiffy Lube is to an ASE certified mechanic. I'm not saying all carpenters are shit or anything (or that all woodworkers are awesome), just that its a different level of skill required for the jobs they do.
>>1001683
You aren't a real DIYer until your wife bans you from using anything from the kitchen
>>1004257
Thank you
>>1004236
That looks cool, almost cartoony. How did you shrink the metal bands?
>>1001672
Those are superb mallets and often available cheap at yard sales, especially with broken handles or missing rawhide pucks.
You can easily replace the handle, and you can use a variety of materials for pucks. I have rawhide, UHMW plastic, copper, and lead.
If you happen on an oversize rawhide puck you can carefully "peel" them to size.
The head design allows clamping somewhat crudely shaped pucks so you don't need a lathe to make them.
>>1002182
Pretty sure most Americans don't know who Clarkson is, and those who do don't give a fuck about him.
>>1004431
not him, but shrinking metal is easy.
>make metal rings in the size you want them shrunk to
>heat them up
>put them in place
>cool them down
>>1001524
where is cork and bamboo on this list
>>1001511
checked
>>1001524
not listing Australian buloke at over 5K
>>1004847
cork is a bark. and bamboo is a grass. neither are a wood.
