Making a Joiners Mallet Using Only Hand Tools
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2020
- Today we are spending most of our time outside, enjoying this beautiful spring weather, and making a Joiners Mallet.
I start with cutting a downed log for my materials, then splitting out the head from the handle. I continue shaping the head with hatchet, and saw, and then move onto shaping the handle on my draw horse with draw knife, and spoke shave. Lastly I use my bit and brace to drill a hole in the head, fit the handle, then attach it with a hand cut kerf and wedge. I finish everything off indoors with my hand plane, and a good coating of boiled linseed oil.
This was a great way to spend a few hours, and hopefully gives you some inspiration to break out those hand tools and see what you can make. Let me know what you think in the comments below, and share what you have made.
To see the video where I make the Bushcraft Axe that I predominantly use to shape the head, click here...
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Little tip i have found very useful woodworking. A reciprocating sawblade fastened to whatever handle you can fashion will do things no saw can and doubles as the best pumpkin carving tool. Ever. Big fan of hand tool only challenges I have a couple knives I have made this way definitely makes you appreciate the tool more.
I appreciate this video, because it's the first video that shows how to make a wooden mallet with minimal tools. Other videos show how to make a mallet with 'minimal' tools, and those include a table saw, drill press, belt sander and bandsaw... thank you for doing this!
Thanks for watching Robert. That was a really fun project.
I built myself one last year much as yours Good job!
I also drill many holes adding down rods to prevent any cracking and splitting in years to come after a year plus ➕️ mine seems prefect and it's not the every day tool but for when I need it to go bong for some jobs
Nice job for audio and coaching 👏
Actually chainsaws war invented to saw bones during surgery. Great video!
I use the mallet to make, the mallet
Your instruction is the easiest to follow that I have found. The filming and narration follow one and other. Happy I found you.
top tip with wet timber, --- rub the saw blade with a candle. the wax lubricates the blade -- much easier , love your videos !! ex carpenter, Bressingham Steam Museum, Norfolk , U.K.
I only just started watching your channel, but I watch a lot of different crafting channels. I have to say that yours is the most instructional, well made, easiest to understand videos I've come across. Thanks for doing what you do and I'm excited to recreate some of these ideas!!!
Devon Holvey thank you so much for the kind words 🙏🙏🙏.
A bow or Bush saw is still a hand tool but with a more aggressive saw profile. I would invest in one for future log cuts. Your crosscut saws will thank you for it
100% true. 😂
Loved it, great seeing the whole process from a fallen log through to the end product. Pleasure to watch as always.👍
Should have waited to ask...Yes it is! Love that thing, I started a stockpile of Half Hatchets to give that a try.
Froe would give you more control when riving your smaller pieces out of larger ones. Also try waxing your saw it helps with your saw jamming in wet wood
You ought to forge a froe. Would make splitting the wood a lot easier. Great work as usual!
Loved that mallet!
Absolutely awesome handmade wooden Mallet , Sir !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You need a more aggressive saw for logs. Chop with Chris is a good channel to see the different options.
Nice video 👍🏻
Good Job 👍👍👍👋👋👋🇩🇪🤝🤝🤝
I know what I'm doing, this glorious pandemic day in Maine. Thanks, bud.
Nice project, thanks for bringing us along!
Next project, build yourself a froe. It will work better than using your hatchet to split off excess wood. Plus I really want to build one, so having you show us how would be great.
Beautiful well done.
Great video. I've made a round (sculptor's?) mallet from a single log. I've been looking for something like this for making a square head mallet. So many great tips. Thanks.
your using dry wood saws the kerf and teeth are not designed for wet or green wood and they are too small youd have a much easier time sawing with a large bucking saw with a larger teeth and a wider kerf and maybe even some raker teeth. they are real easy to build too could be a good craft video for you
I don't know why he didn't use the bow saw in the background.
Its funny when you think of woodworking knowledge and how someone can know the finer points of creating things but not the harvesting portion. my father is a logger so i've been around everything start to finish. That's not to say he doesn't know his saws probably just doesn't have much use of a buck saw/chainsaw a lot of times.
Thank you, stay safe
Good work. I like hand tools.
Thanks, going to teach to my Boy Scouts
That’s awesome!!
Enjoyed this very much!
8:19 daughter waving :) nice to see your outside area too btw.. looks like a great place to live
I don't know which variety of wood you are working on, but in my Country, the elders guys always told me the best wood to manufacture clubs or mallets are the apple or pear trees'wood, for they are with a heavy mass and do not split easili, but just keep on bashing on themselves. Anyhow, just a thought. Great job anyhow, keep it up. Cheers.
Thanks
A suggestion, if I may.
when you did the handle cut for the wedge, I suggest drilling the bottom of the cut. A hole will allow the wood to spring out easily and not in a V Shaped notch.
Most people don't do this (I've seen a lot of vids) but it does make sense, especially in large wedges.
Nicely done. Now I have tomorrow's quarantine project. Thanks.
I’d be done for the day after cutting the log.
Nice mallet Thor lol you are a true craftsman watching you work is inspiring
my favorite video is the one you did in the Mears clone sweetest blade iv'e seen in a long time
Some Viking runes carved on the sides would make it even more special. Crackin males though
Very nice!!
GREAT WORK !
It changes from metal and machines, but for good, thanx Dustin =)
Something so satisfying about that hole being drilled by hand. Great video Dustin. Nice work brotha!!
I love your videos mate
I have been wanting to do this for a while. Think I may need to run to my mom's house and grab some of the walnut and hickory she had cut down last year and make at least one of these.
Yes!
Great video.
Nice piece of wood. Also appreciate that your using tools on hand. Many want to make things with minimum tools. Thank you for your version of a mallet
You look like you really enjoyed making that. 👍
Great video. Had to watch it twice!
love this- really great video
Nice job looked fun . The wood I could see was Elm . Nice hard wood moderate twist in the cambium of the plant .
Really cool brother.
your videos are so pleasant to watch and the scenery around you is
really beautiful . and the way you turned that tree into a mallet was amazing.
Thank you Douglas!
Awesome video! I'd love to see some more knife making videos, I just find them really cool.
gotta make one of these
8:19 hello ...🙏✌️👍
Another great project and video! Well done!
Thank you Mike. As always we appreciate you're support! You're the man.
Love this video I need a seat like you have there using your drawknife with that’s a hint to show us how to make one please but I will be making me a few of these mallets. We lost a live oak a few months ago in a windstorm so I have plenty of material to work with thanks again.
Unbelievable work! glad I found your channel!
Thanks for watching Vic!
Wou, Thor is nobody near to you!!! Excellent as usual Dustin. Other item that is made with the best of you. I saw you live acouple of days but video was not very good quality... at end of it I could see the very good handle you made. Congratulaions Dustin. Greetings from Madrid bro!
Philadelphia checking in. Great video Dustin. You are a patient man. Love the content 👍👍
thats nice but i worry about using wet wood because it always seems to crack. although some types of wood are far more forgiving.
I had the same thought, but figured it would be an interesting test. Also a good way to make a temporary mallet if you needed something in the moment. So far, it’s held up well. Thanks👍🏼
Nice job. Scary big, maybe we'll start calling you Thor :)
I bet you watched the woodright shop as a kid. It was my favorite show. Love the videos today. Great job.
Roy Underhill has probably forgotten more about old school woodworking than most of us will ever know!! Big thumbs up to the woodright shop!!!
@@southboundeightyone4958 he is still teaching. I couldn't believe it
The Woodwright’s shop is definitely tops on my favorite shows of all time list. Roy is amazing. You ever notice that they film the entire show in one take. Incredible.
Run some iron bands around both edges to prevent future splitting. All and all, nice work!
I was breathing heavy watching you saw that log lol
Lol. It was a beast, and I wasn’t using the correct saw for wet wood. 🤷🏼♂️
You may want to try a Silky saw. They cut on the pull stroke and don't bind up nealy as much. Same with the Japanese carpenter's saws.
That saw is for kiln dried lumber. Get a corrona limb saw. Or a bow saw with a good Swiss blade. Like a Hultafors. They offer blades for green wood or dry.
Hi from Australia. Love your channel and pace is very relaxed. I have been making Mallets for years and with power tools and from Australian redgum hardwood. Hand tools on hardwood just too hard :-) Keep up the good content
Very nice one. You should make a shaving horse building video!
That's literally a block of fatwood, isn't it? I can smell the turpentine from Italy!
Good job! Loved the adjustable blade drill.
Not to mention the lovely sound of the planer
Hello from the American west. Hope you Italians are doing good in these troubling times.
@@worxharder9470 Hi, dear, we are going better. We were able to get rid of the first virus tide thanks to the lockdown and now thanks to social distancing. I hope we won't suffer a second wave since many activities have been opened back. We're going to face hard times for our economy, but life is the most important thing, I guess.
Now we're really concerned about the situation in many US states. Please take care because we want you safe and we want you soon back in Italy.
Thank for your comment, I really appreciate it!
Love your channel, amateur woodworker here. But a word of caution about leaving the pith I the wood. This makes it more likely to splitting. Really enjoy your channel! Keep up the videos!
Ghost at 8:17. Love your work by the way. This one turned out nice
Haha!
Tell the person waving at 8:18 hello. I had to go back to be sure what I was seeing. Great video, keep up the good work.
Same 😂 it's his daughter. She does it in every video. The fun part is you have to find her.
Some day let's make a rawhide mallet as I have deer hide and I need one.
You need more set in the saws.
Hello Dustin
A very interesting video. Here are some points to consider:
1. "Minimal tools" should include a log saw for this kind of work. Sawing a log like with a carpenter's saw, intended for wood about the thickness of a two-by-four, is extremely inefficient. Not only does a log saw have wider-set teeth to make a wider kerf to avoid binding, the coarser teeth have wider, deeper gullets that don't fill up so fast. When a find-toothed saw is cutting through eight inches of wood, each gullet fills up 2 or 3 inches after it enters the kerf. For the rest of the stroke the saw skids along on loaded gullets, with the point of the teeth hardly touching the sound wood.
2. For working up a round handle, you'll find it goes much quicker if you use the axe to bring the billet to octagon shape before taking it to the shaving horse.
3. What kind of wood is that? Will it stand up to pounding? After you tested it at the end (about 23min 29sec) I thought I saw a crack running from the far side of the head in to the pith.
Halfway through the video I tried to subscribe. But I was subscribed already. Way to go past me.
Third time's the charm.
Nice man. You should build a back saw next
Just a heads up, I'll be tagging you in a video soon
I made a mallet like this out of hackberry, only problem is that it's so pretty I don't want to hit anything with it. Now I need an ugly one. 😕
Don't have your skills, but I ll try to make one 🙂👍
Practice is what develops skills.
Nicely made! I made a similar one, little bit smaller than yours, out of an acacia log with two wedges (the handle was square). I used power tools only to sand it a bit. Unfortunately the colour of the wood and the beauty of the grain prevented me from using it :-( Keep it up!
The sound of a sharp planer to a nice piece of wood.. Like a pencil to a paper and it writes music to my ears.
Also, just grabbing a random piece and it looks like it was hand picked. ofc I´m a guy that finds beauty in a simple 2x4 :D
The other day I found 5 pieces of 3x8x14-16 the prev owner used when working with his machines. (about 1/8 of grease, rust, chips and whatnot.) Wirebrush and handplaner... and it is totaly worth it.. Btw. I would use BLS-oil on the wedge instead of glue and leave a bit sticking out until its completely dry... but there is more than one way to skin a cat :) and its not my mallet. It turned out awesome! Ima gon make a mallet this weekend for sure :)
Like it! But while watching I did get a little 'THOR' ; )
Man you got a good understanding of what your doing, but its easy to tell you're doing something you're not used to.
Just look at those arms moving, so handsome.
I want a Gallager episode now where various fruits get smashed!
To keep the saws from sticking, do you ever use that gummy wax - like that's used for cross-country skis?
Oil in a can with a rag does just fine too. Hell I've used WD40 in a pinch.
What did you mean by "as long as the core is in the middle it should be okay"? What are the do's and don'ts about the core that we should know about?
Very nice. Can you provide plans on building your draw bench?
I got my plans from watching the homestead craftsman’s. th-cam.com/video/egWASf3b6R0/w-d-xo.html
Also, how did you make the 'vise jig' for your bench. It allowed you to secure the handle for carving with the draw knife. I don't have a vise yet and think this would come in very handy.
The vise I was using to make the handle is actually a draw horse. It’s specifically made for clamping pieces to use with a draw knife. You clamp by pushing on a treadle with your feet, and then allows you too use both hands.
#bucksaw brother 😉
Hello Dustin. I’m interested in how you made your bucket forge. More then anything I’m interested in what material you used on the inside or fire proofing. If you or anyone else could tell me what that is that would awesome. Thanks
Hi Michael, I made a form using a 4” PVC pipe for the main cavity, and a hollow aluminum broom handle cut off for the torch input hole. Set the bucket face up, attached the form (covered in petroleum jelly), and the feet, which were bolts that stuck inside the bucket a few inches, as well as out, then poured in my refractory, which was a 1-1 mixture of Plaster of Paris and sand. Let it harden, and pull out the form. Pretty easy, and has worked amazingly.
So I get how you measured the length of the wedge to 2/3 the length of the handle that is inside the mallet head. How do you decide the width of the top of the wedge? And when you saw the kerf for the wedge to fit into, how far down do you saw? It looked like you just did the very top portion and drove the wedge to deepen the split - is that all it takes?
Is there any specific/special name or purpose to that, for lack of a better term, spatula looking saw or is it just a miscellaneous saw?
Nick Almond yes, it’s called a Japanese pull saw, and the great thing about them is they are very thin, and in my opinion, easy to use.
Also really great for home defense. Keep a giant one of these next to your front door and then invite the neighbors over for dinner...They're jokes, just jokes.
thanks for sharing that. really nice mallet and fun to watch it made from a log. Tool question.....I've never used a draw knife before....how do you sharpen that? Seems like a handy tool to have!
I've had draw knives for a while. The best method I've found for honing the bevel is to clamp the knife to a piece of wood held in a bench vise. Then run the hone stone on the bevel kind of like it is a file. Doing it that way gives a lot of control. Can use two hands to guide the hone. Polishing the back is easy. Keeping the bevel consistent can be a bit of a trick to do though.
You make it look easy !! When I did this I got to the crudely-shaped part then stopped. A few days later the thing developed a nice split almost the whole length. Anybody have an idea of what I did wrong? I'm kinda new to this. The wood was likely maple and seemed to have been lying in the forest about as long as this piece in the video. Thanks for any advice and the great vid!
With most woods left in the round, some lengthwise splitting is nearly inevitable, but you can minimize it by very slow drying and then cutting off the split ends. The part further in from the ends may remain split free if you don't take it into heated space. In the case of a mallet, that's okay, because you can leave it outdoors.
@@MartinMMeiss-mj6li thanks for the advice !
I've never seen a wedged handle on a joiner's mallet. I thought the handle was to be unwedged so as to be removable for transport in a tool box.
Yeah, you’re right. But this one has a wedge. Maybe just more of a big mallet.
I saw this really great wooden mallet from the turn of the century when I visited Germany. They were using it to drive home the bung on a keg, and I've wanted one ever since. It was made from one solid piece of wood and the handle was carved into it instead of being added separately. The bottom part of the head of the mallet sort of curved down eventually becoming a handle, and then the whole thing was burned with, I'm guessing German, flower, and leaf motifs. It was sold old and dark that I'm not sure what kind of wood it was made of or if it had a stain or if it was just darkened by time. I was tempted to buy the thing from the homeowner but didn't have a way to bring it home. Does anyone know what these bung mallets are called?
Found it. Wood carver's mallet. I wonder if I could make one of these with just handtools.
I like the work, that you show us. What kind of wood do you use for the mallet? Many regards from Germany :)
Nice work, I just started watching do you have a video on that bench you were sitting on to shape the handle?
I don’t. I made it based off one built by the homestead craftsman.
I don’t recognize the type of wood you chose for your mallet. I believe it’s a hardwood but would like to know which.
Not enough set on that crosscut saw. That might be why it binds in the curf.