How To Build A Wood Mallet

Now glue your 45 mm pieces on the outside of the handle but dont glue the handle itself.

How to build a wood mallet. Here I will show you step by step how I built this wooden dead blow 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.

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. Then clamp one half of the layers to the underside as shown. You can build a simple one or a more fancier one.

Httpamznto2ch5gLiNew vlog video after every project. 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. The two outside pieces are cut to the full height and length of the mallet head.

More video and exclusive content. My hands flipped over a chunk of wood that fell as an offcut from the chopsaw a few weeks ago. The project shown above is an easy build for a beginning woodworker and the satisfaction of.

The first thing I. Mallet head is a wood sandwich The head is glued up from four pieces of wood. Like the original the handle will be tapered and wedge into a tapered mortise in the head.

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. 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. I wanted to build a wooden mallet and make them unique.