Turning mallets is an enjoyable mental therapy session, each one is different and instantly becomes a primal wood working tool used today and thousands of years ago for the same purpose.
14:57 I used to run cnc routers in a guitar factory, and in the guitar world there is still an attitude that cnc is somehow cheating and that only hand tools are worthy of true art. Frank, you should never have to justify to yourself or anyone really, your use of a cnc machine to get closer to the final outcome. It really doesn't matter what tool you are using, if you are a craftsman/artist this will shine through. And don't worry, with your channel, it does! There is just as much knowledge, experience and craft in making jigs, programming tool paths, devising creative machining solutions with a cnc, as there is with a chisel or a hand plane.
I was going to same the same, as a former guitar builder a lot of people use to complain about the fact that my guitars were cnc made. I always replied back saying that the fact that i have Word in my pc doesn't make me a novelist 😀
counterpoint: I cannot carve a beautiful curve to save my life. My eyes and hands just can't do it. But I can program a CNC to cut a perfect curve. So am I an artist or not? My buddy uses CAD to create body stamping dies for a major car company. He cannot wield a body hammer to save his life. But all his fenders come out beautiful. Is he an artist? No, no more than the rich patron who commissions art and tells the artist what to make is himself an artist.
@@paulheitkemper1559 your comparison of using a cnc and someone commissioning art is flawed. It does not take skill to hire an artist to create a piece of art for you. But, it does take skill to create a piece of art on a cnc.
Hi Frank, beautiful mallets! For the hardwood resource. Check with the countertop places that receive quartz and other natural stone. They use the same types of tropical wood. I figured this out when leaving Woodcraft in Seattle. There is a counter top place behind it and they had a stack of pallets with a free sign. The dunnage was very dark, very dense. Great stuff.
Gorgeous mallets. Good luck on getting that wood sourced up again. Some of the tropical hardwoods that are just scrap over there are just amazing. While stationed over there, I was able to literally just pick up teak, mahogany and rosewood from roadside dumps and local tree services that just wanted to be rid of it instead of paying to dump it or send it off to be burned. It was almost easier to get over there than to get pine and oak from your neighbors here.
For about 3 1/2 years, I’ve been a woodworker. I really appreciate the detailed to your website. Very beautiful symmetry not only with your woodworking but your project as well. I am always looking for hardwood. I just met down at the local hardware store where I can get hardwood anytime from his tree service it takes a little bit ofcommunication and friendly Ness. I’m really loving it.
We have the same first name and same initials. It put a huge smile on my face when you cut your initials into the handle. Thank you for the great content.
WOOD FOR STEEL- I googled “steel importers” in Oregon and came up with 8 importers quickly. Each of the importers is likely to have a dunnage pile just waiting for you. I am from Baltimore and even though Bethlehem Steel is out of business we still have importers of all sizes.
I sold all but a few hand tools, don’t miss it. I still enjoy watching someone else. We looked at a piece of wood furniture yesterday and all I could think was I could make it better with real wood. That’s what happened the first time around.
I live near Middlesbrough a free port in the UK. a timber supplier had some of the same wood cant remember its name. it was very cheep but it's properties was it warped and was hard red wood when i went back for more it was sold, no more! Making Mallets out of it would have been a good move. i made draw fronts glued to a ply liner. this also worked.: loved your vid. Thanks.
Great vid, these mallets are stunning! I use an Andlee masons mallet for stone carving, which is beach and sustainable African iron wood, made by the master Mason at Beverley Minster. It makes a massive difference using a mallet made by someone who understands what the tool is used for, the balance and how it feels in the hand.
Piquia or Piquiarana. The wood you're looking for sounds a lot like Piquia. I bought some not long ago at a rather low price, compared to for example oak or walnut. It was marketed as a hardwood joist for support the floor of a terrace. The color is the same and it's some of the hardest woods I've come across. It doesn't take in oils so well, but it doesn't let much water in also.... Hence the use, I guess. I got some left, and building a mallet is a great idea, thanks
Beautiful work! As a beginner woodworker, I am still in the process of building & organizing my shop. Slowly acquiring tools as I go. I was looking at making or buying a good mallet when I came across your video. Your shop and your skills are light years ahead of anything I can muster at this point, but I wanted to acknowledge how great these mallets look!
espectacular sus trabajos , la verdad usted inspira a que sigamos en nuestros proyectos..MUCHAS GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR SUS TRABAJOS Your work is spectacular, the truth is that you inspire us to continue in our projects. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR WORK
The close up of the mallet from the beginning of the video looks a lot like almond wood. I got some once and used it for cutting boards. It's ridiculously hard and has the same grain patterns and color. You can occasionally find almond lumber and it's usually pretty cheap. I've got a few 8/4 boards left that I may use for a project like this. Good luck and great video.
Frank: As dunnage coming into Portland, there is no customs duty required. It's just packaging. As lumber, coming in from Canada, there may be. There might also be problems with Department of Agriculture about importing tropical hardwoods. USDA and ICE are the first places I would contact before I spent any money. Thanks for the video.
Frank, How Beautiful! Your factory style single-handed production line is quite up my Aspie alley. I love the basketweave one, too. You're show always delights & informs. Thanks. hUgz, Lee
Another beautiful set of mallets, sir. I remember the first video when you did the stop animation, and they creeped around your shop. Make On my Friend Maker 238
I wish I'd seen this video years ago...lol as a flatbed trucker that had hauled hundreds of loads of steel I have literally thrown away 1000s of board feet of that wood. It's as hard as rock or steel. Tried using it as firewood, but it burns with a really low btu and it wasn't worth it so I'd always throw it out...sorry. Glad you found a purpose for it. great job.
That looks like sucupira wood. I have a bunch of that from a set of 25 wooden stools in my classroom that we replaced. Kept the wood and spent a lot of time investigating what it actually was. One of the hardest woods that there is!
Where I work at (Indiana) we also get steel shipped in on various hardwoods (mostly red oak, rarely maple, some softer poplar). I built my workbench out of 200lb worth of free red oak
Wow! I would love to have one of those. Maybe one of these days. I'm sure they're way out of my price range. I have a similar mallet that I bought at a peddlers mall, sort of a flea market where the booth proprietors just set up, price and pay a monthly fee. The mallet seems to be industrially made, made of oak I think and was probably never used before I got it. Nice $5 find LOL! I bet Michael Alm would love the patterned plywood mallet. He does amazing work with patterned plywood.
We used to get our steel on that same wood. I think we referred to it as aptung. We used it for truck and trailer beds and all kind of different things around the Plant. Very Hard, and heavy.
I've been hoping you made more mallets since I missed out on buying one in the last batch. As such, I've been following your tweets and whatnot on the Mallet Factory very closely over the past few weeks and I'm happy to say I was able to snag one right when this video went live! So excited to have a Frank Howarth original to inspire me.😊Cheers Frank!
Hey Frank, I own a steel rollforming business in Iowa. A while ago, I had a shipment of coils from Brazil. Very interesting dunnage that I tried to keep some, kind of an orange color and very hard. If you would like to discuss, please reply. I would definitely share some if you're interested and maybe help you find some locally. Thank you for your wonderful videos, I've enjoyed them for years now!
Hey Frank. As always thanks for your very interesting videos. I live in BC and have some contacts in Vancouver so will look into the wood that might come through the Port with steel imports.
Brilliant, as always! Really liked how the plywood mallets turned out and am also partial to the walnut "cross" handles. You are an engineer & artist combined into one person.
Frank, beautiful mallets. Check for Apitong suppliers in your area. It's a wood commonly used as decking in commercial big rig trailers. Reasonably affordable when purchased in bulk, but you may be able to get off cuts from tractor trailer repair shops.
Frank, I'm in the UK where crates used for importing Indian sandstone (used for paving and patios) use this type of hardwood, the quality can be a bit "hit and miss" but I've used it in projects, even the odd mallet or two!
Frank, amazing job on the mallets. Such a joy to watch your entire vids, from the weird to the practical. Even though I don’t share your aesthetic preference on a lot of projects, I have to admire the workmanship, precision and your ability to pivot during “happy accidents”. I hope you are able to share some of your knowledge on the vast array of learning platforms and I wish you every success going forward. I’ve really enjoyed watching your channel for the past few years. 👍🏼
They all are very beautiful. I’d love to have one of them ( not to use) but to have as a masterpiece in my shelve of my projects. Thank you for sharing Frank.
Hi! That looks like what we call in my country algarrobo (hymanaea courbaril), very hard qnd dense wood, it wouls be ideal for musical instruments, but is very hard on the tools, and the dust created while sanding is somehow irritant too. The few times I used it I used beeswax. Very nice mallets!
It’s kind of interesting that that hardwood isn’t reused for shipping again. I would think that it would be cheaper to pile up the lumber as shipments come in then occasionally send a container of it back instead of paying to have new wood cut and milled just to be used for shipping.
Use whatever tools necessary to achieve the outcome. no one will be the wiser. These are beautiful works of art, the recipients will be honored to have!👍🙏💙💪✌ Keep on making!
Very pretty mallets💪 I always find your videos so soothing and calm, and I really like to relax watching them...I noticed that some of your disks and bamboo squares is sliding around a bit, when you are gluing and clamping them...Try a small drizzle of fine salt, and they won't slide around on you. Just a little tip👌 Great vids, as always💪
I imagine that whatever wood you were sourcing from portland now going to Chinada didnt go very far, so i assume its likely coming here to B.C. Chinada, maybe you could find where that wood is now going and then just take a trip here from time to time, i think the trip is like 4-5 hours
Frank, your work is amazing, and your workshop is the envy of many, but most of us mere mortals don't have, nor ever will have your CNC set up. Have you / would you consider making a perspex/arcyrlic template to sell to your subscribers, that we may use with a hand router and guide system to make a mallet ourselves? I'm in OZ and we have some seriously hard timber down this way, Iron Bark, Buloke, and Gidgee to name a few. Please let me know (and im sure a few out there would be saying " yes please uncle Frank!! can you?")
Frank, I love your content and watch each video as soon as I know that a new one has been uploaded. I have been a maker all my long life and like you, feel I have an affinity with wood. The only ‘exotic’ wood that I have ever used has been ‘second hand’, that is, sourced from old furniture or otherwise recycled. I find it ethically impossible to use any but locally grown wood from sustainable sources, knowing that 'exotic' wood exploitation is destroying forests and therefore ultimately the planet. Making something out of ‘new’ foreign wood would seem to me like someone who says that they love dogs then beating one to death. I notice that you seem to use mostly locally sourced wood and would be interested in your perspective on this and feel that if you agree with me, a word about your views during one of your videos might help the cause of attempting to save the forests around the world.
There's nothing wrong with using automation, I'd say. It simply takes care of the menial tasks that don't require a craftsman, so you can focus on the actual craftsmanship. I liken it to doing translation. I COULD do it all by hand, but it's simply easier to start with an awful Google Translate transcript and then fix it by hand so it sounds natural.
In several episodes of Sampson Boat Company, they traveled to what I seem to think was a central American country to acquire wood and to learn shipbuilding techniques. THAT wood was used because of its hardness and I believe its other usage was to make pallets for ships. I am NOT sure of the country. Perhaps a little research will help?
The mallets look really awesome! Would be cool if you could join the handle block to the head block with even finer spokes! Kinda like saw blade width splines / box joints star shaped.
The dunnage wood is probably Luan Mahogany, AKA Philippine mahogany. A story on the damp wood: Many years ago a big white oak blew down, and I kept a few pieces of the wood. I made a mallet and a thin-walled pencil holder from the unseasoned wood, fully expecting them to check as they dried. So I thought, "what has an affinity for water, doesn't stink, and doesn't stain?" Ethylene glycol antifreeze, the yellow kind, came to mind. I applied it and it soaked right in without any harm to the beauty of the wood. I still have the mallet and pencil holder and they never checked.
Frank, thank you for this Vid. The best part of Sunday is watching the new offerings. On a different note. Are you familiar with the company Richlite? They produce amazing man made flat panels. I just got a sample package of their products. Plus all of them are Washington state produced and made of paper.
Hello Frank, on 13:33min you start to mill and you do it good but try it next time 90degree the mill cutting way so you go on the side way of the mill not on the underside?
Turning mallets is an enjoyable mental therapy session, each one is different and instantly becomes a primal wood working tool used today and thousands of years ago for the same purpose.
14:57 I used to run cnc routers in a guitar factory, and in the guitar world there is still an attitude that cnc is somehow cheating and that only hand tools are worthy of true art. Frank, you should never have to justify to yourself or anyone really, your use of a cnc machine to get closer to the final outcome. It really doesn't matter what tool you are using, if you are a craftsman/artist this will shine through. And don't worry, with your channel, it does! There is just as much knowledge, experience and craft in making jigs, programming tool paths, devising creative machining solutions with a cnc, as there is with a chisel or a hand plane.
Yes!
I was going to same the same, as a former guitar builder a lot of people use to complain about the fact that my guitars were cnc made. I always replied back saying that the fact that i have Word in my pc doesn't make me a novelist 😀
counterpoint: I cannot carve a beautiful curve to save my life. My eyes and hands just can't do it. But I can program a CNC to cut a perfect curve. So am I an artist or not? My buddy uses CAD to create body stamping dies for a major car company. He cannot wield a body hammer to save his life. But all his fenders come out beautiful. Is he an artist? No, no more than the rich patron who commissions art and tells the artist what to make is himself an artist.
@@paulheitkemper1559 your comparison of using a cnc and someone commissioning art is flawed. It does not take skill to hire an artist to create a piece of art for you. But, it does take skill to create a piece of art on a cnc.
@@jlinkhart all analogies are flawed. But I feel that my entire point taken as a whole still stands.
I really wish you had done a final shot of the mallets after you put the finish on them. They're beautiful.
Hi Frank, beautiful mallets! For the hardwood resource. Check with the countertop places that receive quartz and other natural stone. They use the same types of tropical wood. I figured this out when leaving Woodcraft in Seattle. There is a counter top place behind it and they had a stack of pallets with a free sign. The dunnage was very dark, very dense. Great stuff.
thanks, that's a good idea
Gorgeous mallets. Good luck on getting that wood sourced up again. Some of the tropical hardwoods that are just scrap over there are just amazing. While stationed over there, I was able to literally just pick up teak, mahogany and rosewood from roadside dumps and local tree services that just wanted to be rid of it instead of paying to dump it or send it off to be burned. It was almost easier to get over there than to get pine and oak from your neighbors here.
Every mallet is in itself a piece of art. I never get tired of admiring your work. I’m always happy when I encounter one of your videos. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️👍😊
For about 3 1/2 years, I’ve been a woodworker. I really appreciate the detailed to your website. Very beautiful symmetry not only with your woodworking but your project as well. I am always looking for hardwood. I just met down at the local hardware store where I can get hardwood anytime from his tree service it takes a little bit ofcommunication and friendly Ness. I’m really loving it.
I really liked the overhead shots in this video, it gives a nice sense of what it's like to be doing what you're doing
We have the same first name and same initials. It put a huge smile on my face when you cut your initials into the handle. Thank you for the great content.
Having jumped into the CNC world, I’m more amazed at your ability to program all this into your CAD program.
Frank, your use of technology is an art itself. Nice work.
WOOD FOR STEEL- I googled “steel importers” in Oregon and came up with 8 importers quickly. Each of the importers is likely to have a dunnage pile just waiting for you. I am from Baltimore and even though Bethlehem Steel is out of business we still have importers of all sizes.
That's really true: finding what the wood wants to be. Your video composition is as interesting as the project.
I sold all but a few hand tools, don’t miss it. I still enjoy watching someone else. We looked at a piece of wood furniture yesterday and all I could think was I could make it better with real wood. That’s what happened the first time around.
I live near Middlesbrough a free port in the UK. a timber supplier had some of the same wood cant remember its name. it was very cheep but it's properties was it warped and was hard red wood when i went back for more it was sold, no more! Making Mallets out of it would have been a good move. i made draw fronts glued to a ply liner. this also worked.: loved your vid. Thanks.
The shot at 14:56 is such a beautiful view of how a CNC machine can speed up workflow in a woodshop. Love it!
Great vid, these mallets are stunning!
I use an Andlee masons mallet for stone carving, which is beach and sustainable African iron wood, made by the master Mason at Beverley Minster. It makes a massive difference using a mallet made by someone who understands what the tool is used for, the balance and how it feels in the hand.
What a brilliant project, Frank! Wood sculptures, indeed!
Piquia or Piquiarana. The wood you're looking for sounds a lot like Piquia. I bought some not long ago at a rather low price, compared to for example oak or walnut. It was marketed as a hardwood joist for support the floor of a terrace. The color is the same and it's some of the hardest woods I've come across. It doesn't take in oils so well, but it doesn't let much water in also.... Hence the use, I guess. I got some left, and building a mallet is a great idea, thanks
AND you can use the same initials on the handle 👍🏼
@@OnkelPetersnot gonna lie - it took me a minute. You're right! I might have to freehand it with a dremel, tho 😵💫
Amazing! Love your projects and ingenuity!😊
Amazing project tool.
Watching from Clark Pampanga Philippines.
I have one of your mallets from the first batch. It is my go-to anytime I'm working in the shop. The hardwood doesn't show much sign of use.
❤️ I love the different ways you figured out how to make these mallets ❤️ Thanks for sharing ❤️
Thanks, Frank. You do amazing work and have an excellent way of describing the process.
Your art, the woodworking and the videography, are so good. Thank you for sharing your efforts with the world.
Beautiful work! As a beginner woodworker, I am still in the process of building & organizing my shop. Slowly acquiring tools as I go. I was looking at making or buying a good mallet when I came across your video. Your shop and your skills are light years ahead of anything I can muster at this point, but I wanted to acknowledge how great these mallets look!
espectacular sus trabajos , la verdad usted inspira a que sigamos en nuestros proyectos..MUCHAS GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR SUS TRABAJOS
Your work is spectacular, the truth is that you inspire us to continue in our projects. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR WORK
These are really cool Frank I love how the Birch plywood and the bamboo one came out.
I can respect a guy with two radial arm saw setups..
I’ve missed a classic wood turning project :’) the mallet is what brought me to this channel.
The close up of the mallet from the beginning of the video looks a lot like almond wood. I got some once and used it for cutting boards. It's ridiculously hard and has the same grain patterns and color. You can occasionally find almond lumber and it's usually pretty cheap. I've got a few 8/4 boards left that I may use for a project like this. Good luck and great video.
Beautiful work! I'd love to see each finished mallet up close even if it is just a slow pan while they are still hanging from the string.
Frank: As dunnage coming into Portland, there is no customs duty required. It's just packaging. As lumber, coming in from Canada, there may be. There might also be problems with Department of Agriculture about importing tropical hardwoods. USDA and ICE are the first places I would contact before I spent any money. Thanks for the video.
Frank,
How Beautiful!
Your factory style
single-handed
production line
is quite up my Aspie alley.
I love the basketweave one, too.
You're show always delights
& informs. Thanks.
hUgz, Lee
In this video, there are instructive points that you can mix your ideas with. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Another beautiful set of mallets, sir. I remember the first video when you did the stop animation, and they creeped around your shop. Make On my Friend Maker 238
I wish I'd seen this video years ago...lol as a flatbed trucker that had hauled hundreds of loads of steel I have literally thrown away 1000s of board feet of that wood. It's as hard as rock or steel. Tried using it as firewood, but it burns with a really low btu and it wasn't worth it so I'd always throw it out...sorry. Glad you found a purpose for it. great job.
That looks like sucupira wood. I have a bunch of that from a set of 25 wooden stools in my classroom that we replaced. Kept the wood and spent a lot of time investigating what it actually was. One of the hardest woods that there is!
You are always creative in all the works that you display through this channel
Turned out real nice. Thanks for sharing
Where I work at (Indiana) we also get steel shipped in on various hardwoods (mostly red oak, rarely maple, some softer poplar). I built my workbench out of 200lb worth of free red oak
The mallet video is still my favorite.
Wow! I would love to have one of those. Maybe one of these days. I'm sure they're way out of my price range. I have a similar mallet that I bought at a peddlers mall, sort of a flea market where the booth proprietors just set up, price and pay a monthly fee. The mallet seems to be industrially made, made of oak I think and was probably never used before I got it. Nice $5 find LOL!
I bet Michael Alm would love the patterned plywood mallet. He does amazing work with patterned plywood.
We used to get our steel on that same wood. I think we referred to it as aptung. We used it for truck and trailer beds and all kind of different things around the Plant. Very Hard, and heavy.
I've been hoping you made more mallets since I missed out on buying one in the last batch. As such, I've been following your tweets and whatnot on the Mallet Factory very closely over the past few weeks and I'm happy to say I was able to snag one right when this video went live! So excited to have a Frank Howarth original to inspire me.😊Cheers Frank!
Where are these for sale at? ive been looking around for a link!
@@Arborensis They were on his Etsy: FrankMakes, but pretty much instantly sold out it seems
They are awesome, specially the one with bamboo. Just love it!
Hey Frank, I own a steel rollforming business in Iowa. A while ago, I had a shipment of coils from Brazil. Very interesting dunnage that I tried to keep some, kind of an orange color and very hard. If you would like to discuss, please reply. I would definitely share some if you're interested and maybe help you find some locally. Thank you for your wonderful videos, I've enjoyed them for years now!
Hey Frank. As always thanks for your very interesting videos. I live in BC and have some contacts in Vancouver so will look into the wood that might come through the Port with steel imports.
These edits. Top notch. Love these projects.
Don’t forget to account for (not that you need to) the time spent in the CAD and CAM to save the time on the CNC. Nice work Frank
Just received the mallet! Thanks Frank!
17:42 That's smart! Reduce, reuse, recycle!
The "basket weave" mallet reminds me of Michael Alm's pattern plywood works.
great project. thanks. I love free/found wood.
I enjoyed watching your video! Mallets are stunning!
Brilliant, as always! Really liked how the plywood mallets turned out and am also partial to the walnut "cross" handles. You are an engineer & artist combined into one person.
That was fascinating, never thought of carving mallets being 'art'
Frank, beautiful mallets. Check for Apitong suppliers in your area. It's a wood commonly used as decking in commercial big rig trailers. Reasonably affordable when purchased in bulk, but you may be able to get off cuts from tractor trailer repair shops.
Thanks, I will have to look into that.
It would be interesting to see Franks' take on Habus ' coffee spoon. These markets are beautiful.
Birdy
Frank, I'm in the UK where crates used for importing Indian sandstone (used for paving and patios) use this type of hardwood, the quality can be a bit "hit and miss" but I've used it in projects, even the odd mallet or two!
Those all look great, Frank. Have you ever watched Michael Alm's channel where he makes patterned plywood? You reminded me of that.
Bill
Frank, amazing job on the mallets. Such a joy to watch your entire vids, from the weird to the practical. Even though I don’t share your aesthetic preference on a lot of projects, I have to admire the workmanship, precision and your ability to pivot during “happy accidents”. I hope you are able to share some of your knowledge on the vast array of learning platforms and I wish you every success going forward. I’ve really enjoyed watching your channel for the past few years. 👍🏼
They all are very beautiful. I’d love to have one of them ( not to use) but to have as a masterpiece in my shelve of my projects. Thank you for sharing Frank.
Hi! That looks like what we call in my country algarrobo (hymanaea courbaril), very hard qnd dense wood, it wouls be ideal for musical instruments, but is very hard on the tools, and the dust created while sanding is somehow irritant too. The few times I used it I used beeswax. Very nice mallets!
It’s been a long time nice to see you back.👍
Pretty to watch as always Frank.
Really beautiful work, Frank! They look amazing! 😃
I hope you can find that wood again!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
It’s kind of interesting that that hardwood isn’t reused for shipping again. I would think that it would be cheaper to pile up the lumber as shipments come in then occasionally send a container of it back instead of paying to have new wood cut and milled just to be used for shipping.
Super film. The mallets are gorgeous. Love the bamboo pattern. Mahalo for sharing! : )
You should try to source some Australian hardwood, very dense hard and full of chatoyancy
Use whatever tools necessary to achieve the outcome. no one will be the wiser. These are beautiful works of art, the recipients will be honored to have!👍🙏💙💪✌ Keep on making!
I didn't realize you were in oregon till this vid. Love your stuff
Didn't you hear the sirens and gunshots in the background? ;)
Fantastic video Frank!! I really enjoy all of your creations, keep it up!!
Fun project. Appreciate your sharing.
Geez those look amazing! Great work as always!
Very pretty mallets💪 I always find your videos so soothing and calm, and I really like to relax watching them...I noticed that some of your disks and bamboo squares is sliding around a bit, when you are gluing and clamping them...Try a small drizzle of fine salt, and they won't slide around on you. Just a little tip👌 Great vids, as always💪
I imagine that whatever wood you were sourcing from portland now going to Chinada didnt go very far, so i assume its likely coming here to B.C. Chinada, maybe you could find where that wood is now going and then just take a trip here from time to time, i think the trip is like 4-5 hours
love the plywood woven effect
i love your shop
Frank, your work is amazing, and your workshop is the envy of many, but most of us mere mortals don't have, nor ever will have your CNC set up. Have you / would you consider making a perspex/arcyrlic template to sell to your subscribers, that we may use with a hand router and guide system to make a mallet ourselves? I'm in OZ and we have some seriously hard timber down this way, Iron Bark, Buloke, and Gidgee to name a few. Please let me know (and im sure a few out there would be saying " yes please uncle Frank!! can you?")
Ordered one! Thanks!
ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE! BRAVO! WHERE CAN SOMEONE BUY YOUR BEAUTIFUL MALLETS?
I get so excited when you post a new video 😁🖤❤️🖤
Frank, I love your content and watch each video as soon as I know that a new one has been uploaded. I have been a maker all my long life and like you, feel I have an affinity with wood. The only ‘exotic’ wood that I have ever used has been ‘second hand’, that is, sourced from old furniture or otherwise recycled. I find it ethically impossible to use any but locally grown wood from sustainable sources, knowing that 'exotic' wood exploitation is destroying forests and therefore ultimately the planet. Making something out of ‘new’ foreign wood would seem to me like someone who says that they love dogs then beating one to death. I notice that you seem to use mostly locally sourced wood and would be interested in your perspective on this and feel that if you agree with me, a word about your views during one of your videos might help the cause of attempting to save the forests around the world.
Nice mallets, thanks for sharing.
There's nothing wrong with using automation, I'd say. It simply takes care of the menial tasks that don't require a craftsman, so you can focus on the actual craftsmanship. I liken it to doing translation. I COULD do it all by hand, but it's simply easier to start with an awful Google Translate transcript and then fix it by hand so it sounds natural.
Frank - do the spinning wheels of the stay scare you at all? Seems like it would be easy to get something sucked into them.
In several episodes of Sampson Boat Company, they traveled to what I seem to think was a central American country to acquire wood and to learn shipbuilding techniques. THAT wood was used because of its hardness and I believe its other usage was to make pallets for ships. I am NOT sure of the country. Perhaps a little research will help?
The mallets look really awesome!
Would be cool if you could join the handle block to the head block with even finer spokes! Kinda like saw blade width splines / box joints star shaped.
that would be cool. now you have me thinking about how to do that.
Stunning work
The dunnage wood is probably Luan Mahogany, AKA Philippine mahogany. A story on the damp wood: Many years ago a big white oak blew down, and I kept a few pieces of the wood. I made a mallet and a thin-walled pencil holder from the unseasoned wood, fully expecting them to check as they dried. So I thought, "what has an affinity for water, doesn't stink, and doesn't stain?" Ethylene glycol antifreeze, the yellow kind, came to mind. I applied it and it soaked right in without any harm to the beauty of the wood. I still have the mallet and pencil holder and they never checked.
It won't be worthy of the "FH" logo if it weren't completely over-engineered. Loved it!
This is a wonderful vid. I learned a lot.
Thanks Frank.
You got my sub quickly.
OMG @00:30 Did I just watch glue dry?!?! :-D Awesome work as usual!
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Frank, thank you for this Vid. The best part of Sunday is watching the new offerings.
On a different note. Are you familiar with the company Richlite? They produce amazing man made flat panels. I just got a sample package of their products. Plus all of them are Washington state produced and made of paper.
Dunnage wood pallets arrive with products from Shi Lanka. Brush manufacturing. Is a big one.
I found a local source here in Calgary for Meranti, Mahogany and Red Balau 4 x 4 stock. Offcuts are cheap!
Wait, Portland Oregon?! Are you local? That’s awesome!
Are they all sold out already? Bloody hell, that's crazy.
Hello Frank, on 13:33min you start to mill and you do it good but try it next time 90degree the mill cutting way so you go on the side way of the mill not on the underside?
Very nice!