My Favorite Mallets

[harry strasil]

These are my favorite mallets in my basement home shop. The left one has a hedge (osage orange) head, the right one is turned from hickory.
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I also posted my bandsaw tensioning/detensioning system in the power tool section.

[Sam Yerardi]

Nice work. It's hard to explain to someone how much pride you take in making and using your own tools isn't it? I'd like to find some osage orange. There's a lot where I live in southern Ohio.

[harry strasil]

Sam, find a farmer that uses osage orange for fence posts and get one the right size from him, they are usually aged already and ready to use.

[Jim Becker]

My mallet head is also Osage orange, Harry...very durable stuff. The format is more like your hickory mallet, but mine is two-piece with an oak handle. I've been meaning to make a few more, both in size and different formats as I use hand tools more refining my work.

[Sam Yerardi]

Thanks Harry

[Danny Thompson]

Harry,

I'm really enjoying seeing your tools, gadgets, etc. I'm curious, what about these mallets makes them your favorites?

[harry strasil]

they feel gooe while using them and thay are like a natural extension of my arm.

[Jeff Wittrock]

I really like the shape of the hickory one. Its a lot like the one I use.
The problem I have is that my mine is always to close at hand when I need to beat on something other than wood, so It has gotten in pretty bad shape.