How To Build A Wood Mallet

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How to build a wood mallet. Its a 3 x 6 and just long enough for the mallet head. Build your own copy of a handy and ergonomic historical joiners mallet. Like the original the handle will be tapered and wedge into a tapered mortise in the head.

Now glue your 45 mm pieces on the outside of the handle but dont glue the handle itself. The handle locks into a wedge-shaped mortise for a fit that tightens with use. Place your handle exactly in the middle of one of the 120 x 90 mm pieces so that 25 mm of the thickest end of the handle protrudes past the top of the mallet head.

A basic wooden mallet is probably one of the easiest things to build and does not take a lot of experience or material. Then clamp one half of the layers to the underside as shown. Heres My Mallet Making My Wooden Mallet.

Mallet head is a wood sandwich The head is glued up from four pieces of wood. This is an easy way to construct a mortise and tenon joint that doesnt require a super thick piece of wood and allows the. The two outside pieces are cut to the full height and length of the mallet head.

Take this clamped assembly to a drill press and drill two 18in holes on each center piece not the handle. Of course that also means you need to layout and cut a tapered mortise but this is woodworking after all you love it and might need the practice. Build the smaller mallet for light assembly work and for use with 1-and-narrower chisels.

Here I will show you step by step how I built this wooden dead blow mallet. Make a Mallet or Two Woodworking Plan from the WOOD Store The best mallet youll ever use may be as close as your scrap bin. I think thats the best way to make a mallet since it can be done all in one session without waiting for glue to dry.