Does anyone here use a rawhide mallet? I suffer from a lack of restraint at auctions, especially when there are no other bids. One of my hauls a few years ago was a lot of mallets. The cream of the crop was a heavy rosewood mallet. Included was a way beyond use rawhide headed Chicago mallet. Most of the rawhide had fallen out and what was there was even with the iron body.
Is it worth cleaning this up the rest of the way and replacing the rawhide? This is not the split head version, so it is not readily intuitive to me how to replace the rawhide ends. Can this be used as a dead blow mallet for assembly and such?
I have a standard modern dead blow (if I can ever unearth it) but am wondering if this is worth putting any work into.