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!
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 👏
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.
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
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!!!
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.
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.
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
@@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!
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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
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!
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👍🏼
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
Actually chainsaws war invented to saw bones during surgery. Great video!
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.
Unbelievable work! glad I found your channel!
Thanks for watching Vic!
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 👏
Nice video 👍🏻
GREAT WORK !
Great video.
Good work. I like hand tools.
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.
You need a more aggressive saw for logs. Chop with Chris is a good channel to see the different options.
Absolutely awesome handmade wooden Mallet , Sir !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice one. You should make a shaving horse building 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
I love your videos mate
love this- really great video
Good Job 👍👍👍👋👋👋🇩🇪🤝🤝🤝
Beautiful well done.
Nicely done. Now I have tomorrow's quarantine project. Thanks.
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. 😂
Your instruction is the easiest to follow that I have found. The filming and narration follow one and other. Happy I found you.
Loved that mallet!
Really cool brother.
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 🙏🙏🙏.
Nice project, thanks for bringing us along!
Nice job looked fun . The wood I could see was Elm . Nice hard wood moderate twist in the cambium of the plant .
You look like you really enjoyed making that. 👍
Very nice!!
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.
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.
I know what I'm doing, this glorious pandemic day in Maine. Thanks, bud.
Enjoyed this very much!
Should have waited to ask...Yes it is! Love that thing, I started a stockpile of Half Hatchets to give that a try.
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!
Great video. Had to watch it twice!
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
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!
Another great project and video! Well done!
Thank you Mike. As always we appreciate you're support! You're the man.
You ought to forge a froe. Would make splitting the wood a lot easier. Great work as usual!
Something so satisfying about that hole being drilled by hand. Great video Dustin. Nice work brotha!!
Philadelphia checking in. Great video Dustin. You are a patient man. Love the content 👍👍
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
Thank you, stay safe
Loved it, great seeing the whole process from a fallen log through to the end product. Pleasure to watch as always.👍
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.
It changes from metal and machines, but for good, thanx Dustin =)
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
gotta make one of these
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!
Very nice. Can you provide plans on building your draw bench?
I got my plans from watching the homestead craftsman’s. ruclips.net/video/egWASf3b6R0/видео.html
I’d be done for the day after cutting the log.
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.
8:19 daughter waving :) nice to see your outside area too btw.. looks like a great place to live
Thanks, going to teach to my Boy Scouts
That’s awesome!!
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.
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.
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!
Awesome video! I'd love to see some more knife making videos, I just find them really cool.
Run some iron bands around both edges to prevent future splitting. All and all, nice work!
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.
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.
Nice job. Scary big, maybe we'll start calling you Thor :)
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 :)
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.
Halfway through the video I tried to subscribe. But I was subscribed already. Way to go past me.
Third time's the charm.
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
Beautiful mallet! Nice work, witch species of wood was it made from?
Ghost at 8:17. Love your work by the way. This one turned out nice
Haha!
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!
Don't have your skills, but I ll try to make one 🙂👍
Practice is what develops skills.
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. 🤷🏼♂️
I use the mallet to make, the mallet
Some Viking runes carved on the sides would make it even more special. Crackin males though
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👍🏼
Some day let's make a rawhide mallet as I have deer hide and I need one.
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.
Hello Dustin
Cool video!
Is it best to make it green or dry?
What did you rub on it?
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 like the work, that you show us. What kind of wood do you use for the mallet? Many regards from Germany :)
Just look at those arms moving, so handsome.
I want a Gallager episode now where various fruits get smashed!
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.
Man you got a good understanding of what your doing, but its easy to tell you're doing something you're not used to.
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.
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?
8:19 hello ...🙏✌️👍
Nice man. You should build a back saw next
Just a heads up, I'll be tagging you in a video soon
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?
Did you make your little bench too?
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.
That's funny! I was just gonna suggest a chainsaw and he says, "That's why chainsaws were invented!"
You need more set in the saws.
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!
Like it! But while watching I did get a little 'THOR' ; )
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.
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.
any idea what was before sand paper?
Rotten stone and sharkskin.
Onde encontro um projeto desse banco que segura a peça de madeira para desbaste?
Nice job, but what about shrinking over time?
Yeah, it will shrink, and the handle will come loose, but I left enough girth in the handle to be able to seat it further later on. Thanks