Best Mallets For Hand Tool Woodworking
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- Опубликовано: 5 мар 2015
- We're back in our new workshop and warming in with a quick rant about one of our most repeated comments; that bloody great mallet.
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I return to this video every once in a while, there is such lot of good advice here, wishing you were still making these brilliant informative videos !
I love this video it exemplifies the difference between power and force, the more hand woodworking I do the more I realise how important this is !
Cheers, AndyC.
As a proffesional woodworker it's refreshing to find some one like yourself who understands the job and is not a stuffy weekend warrior type that has to have perfect angles on things before he can start. Your mallet broke you did the job with an available too! I use a heavy hide mallet on framing chisels!
I like your style! Well explained!
Richard,
You are spot on with your theory of striking a chisel with a large metal hammer, the heavier the hammer, the lighter and more controlled strike you can give, if you take this theory to the limit by using a tiny toffee hammer you would have to strike with such velocity that it is doubtful that you would hit the chisel accurately, with a broader faced heavy hammer it is very much easier to both hit the chisel, and drive it in to the depth of the bevel. Your Thor hammer also has the advantage of having screw in faces which are also available in Copper, these add more weight if required.Thanks for posting this.
To use your vernacular Richard, that was bloody brilliant! Really well said and well produced.
Happy Birthday Shannon!!!!!
Thank you for explaining the basics of chisels and mallets. I am rather new to hand tools but I have been smashing my chisels like a barbarian and wondered why they don't work well. Now I know. Thank you sir and you have a great style and I am your new subscriber.
When i first saw your videos your use of this hammer inspired me to make my own,now i couldnt be without it!
I bought a Thor’s mallet last month love it ,got the next size up awsome.
The Thor hammer is used by lots of electricians when surface clipping mineral cables (1.5-2.5mm). I have one for that reason. Great mallet.
Bravo! Great topic and glad to see you back.
Sooooo happy you're back, Richard! :D Great rant.
It's great to see you back on RUclips. I think you make a good point about the broad head of the steel hammer being easier on a chisel than a claw hammer. My experience is just as you said regarding wooden mallets. I had to slam them hard to get anything done. I broke a lignum vitae mallet, and I have hollowed the faces of 2 beech mallets. And the head of one of those split. I now use a Wood Is Good urethane headed mallet and it works great. I don't have to swing it as hard, and it's never shown any worse for the wear.
Glad you are back!
Brilliant rant mate. Can't wait for more videos.
I have an oversized mallet I made from the very bottom of a red oak tree I have on my property, the old growth bits. Thing is it can tap very lightly, or if need be I can grab it with both hands and then it can dish out some persuasion on whatever is refusing to get into place.
Welcome back, we have missed you... And yes as mentioned below, Paul Sellers is the advocate of the Thorax.. I also use the Thorax
Wonderful presentation. I'd listen to you teach any day, even if I knew the subject thoroughly, just to hear your language. Brilliant, as I think you Brits might put it.
Welcome back. Looking forward to regular videos.
Woooooooow some serious info for a beginner like me! Thanks for all the explanation! Cheers!
You make some great points here. I really enjoyed this.
I'm a beginner. I sat and gave it a thought. Looked at my metal 0.5 kg metal hammer, recalled how I like its weight. I've never done any wood project but on that day I received a package with my very first chisel set. I took some scrap wood and within few hours I finished my hammer to mallet adaptor...cap :D A chunk slid on the hammer (with it's chiseled out rectangular hole), roughly rectangular, with 80x80 mm sides. It doesn't fall off, has the striking face angled like your usual carpenter's mallet and simply works. I'm going to make another one with tighter fit and smaller striking face.
Yay! You are back!
I loved your comments! Very well reasoned and I think you are onto something. I must admit I like the look of my wood mallet - a very cool look for me! But I think I will keep my forge hammer (yeah, I've played around with black smithing) handy and give it a try. Love your new video series and look forward to more.
Glad your back!!!
Woooohoooo! New stuff. Love your show, keep it up!
Welcome back! Welcome back! Woohoo!
Rant away Richard!!! Glad to see you back on! I've been checking every few days to see when you would be back. My fave of yours is the holdfast video... TEW classic in my mind. Good to see you again! And while I didn't suggest the purchase of your composite mallet... I would love to take a pint or two with you at your favorite pub the next time I make it across the pond!!!
The bronze age is so last year, I'm also a modern iron age chap myself. ;-)
My father was a shipwright and mostly used an iron mallet (that he made). Like you, I find the extra density of metal transfers energy more efficiently to the business end, so you can be gentler. In the end I think it comes down to mass and momentum.
love your videos, would love to see more!
Hey welcome back keep up the good work
Absolutely brilliant!
I for one enjoy watching you violate the tabus of conventional wisdom. You have a great presentation style keep up the good work .
I just did some noise testing and metal hammers always come out vastly quieter than wooden mallets. Quite an important aspect for anyone working without a dedicated workshop.
I personally enjoy a dead blow rubber mallet.thanks for your amazing videos:)
Love the video, and yes, I'm guessing that it's Paul Sellars you own the pint to. I too have fallen in love with the Thor hammer, although I got the cheaper one with the nylon handle and regret that part of it.
Awesome info for a beginner. Thank you!
Good tips and techniques. Thanks for posting
I love tyhis guy, hes a great woodworker. and I learn so much, but also he keeps me laughing the whole time . thanks for the vids. keep I\up the good work
welcome back
Thor 712... endorsed by Paul Sellers. Thorex should be offering royalties as a result of increased sales of these things! Great story, great video production.
Paul Sellers favourite chisel hammer and I love the lump hammer
I was also going to say that Paul Sellers promotes also thorex hammers.
Some interesting points. There are woods harder than brass that are common in mallets so hardness may not be the only factor. I made a mallet with a Delrin head, similar to the Thor hammer, but haven't used it yet.
Rant away fella :o) I picked up a plastic faced hammer and already love it over a wooden mallet and because of the weight I don't have to welly it. Regarding chisels, A Stone mason taught me when chopping out stone or in our case wood, the bit you're cutting out needs somewhere to go. He also said carving was easy, you just take away the bits you don't need..... More videos please, how about a hand saw rant?
Thor mallets are superb, I have a large rawhide that is excellent for metal work, jewellery especially and I also have a modified number 0 (tiny) with a copper face and a home cast lead face, I use this on the lathe as I can happily whack a drill bit if needed and it will never cause any damage but it doesn't half have some welly.
That looks like a perfect workshop chair.
I'm engrossed in your work and videos. Fantastic work.
Do you sell your wooden hand planes ?
Kind regards
Allan
Thank you. That was entertaining
Is it still your favorite mallet 7 years later ?
Well stated. Tanks ..
Excellent video! Highly recommend to every woodworker using a chisel
Great technical information and now (after Paul Sellers) the second recommendation for the Thor
It's a bit like using a sledge hammer then - try to swing it from behind your head and you're probably going to hurt yourself!
We use very similar Thor hammers where I work but mainly so we don't damage aluminium extrusion. It's a great idea with the interchangeable faces, although I still prefer a wooden handle.
lovely
And.. a steel 'Warrington' hammer is made and recommended for adjusting the iron / wedge of wooden planes
I only use Lie-Nielsen mallets anointed with the sweat of Rob Cosman.
Hahahahahaha
New subscriber! Came here from a WW forum. I think I missed the first half of the video bc I was trying to figure out which Game of Thrones character you sounded like - Jon Snow, perhaps? Yes yes, "stupid Yankee." Anyway, glad to watch you other vids.
John Snow it is! So it's not only me! :D
I give credit to Paul Sellers for introducing me to the Thor hammer.
I reckon the chisels are yours, strike them them with whatever you please. You seem to do well enough with the lump hammer that I wouldn't think of criticizing...
I use a cobblers hammer, wide head, all metal and light
I use a light weight dead-blow.
my dad used one of them rubber mallets for years fitting windows never tried it out on my chisels
Where did you get the Thor hammer? You seem to have changed your production values, looking good!
amazon has them, but we dont know the weight he is using. so will guess the 1lb size ?
David Moore its a thor 712 they come with a resin handle or a wooden i think the wooden handled one is 712 r , a must have in any wood shop (imho)
- Your technique is poor.
Loving it lol. Thanks, i learned something useful today.
what about making a small wooden mallet and fill it with some heated lead from some old pipes ??? :-)
If it works for you, go with it.
The Russel Brand of carpentry
As far as the penetration goes, this is achieved by the point of the chisel (for a given chisel, given species, just varying the mallet). It will penetrate proportional to the kinetic energy imparted (KE=1/2 M x (V squared)). If M (mass) is high, V (velocity) can be lower, so a slower blow from a heavier mallet will do the trick. The part of the chisel which absorbs this is the handle, which will see pressure (proportional to area), so equal force over a larger area (ie bigger mallet head) will do the job, and be less damaging.
That's enough physics for now. I think I'll have a nice cup of tea, and a lie down.
And here I thought that I was the only one that used a blacksmiths hammer for chisels.
It's that simple, just go to the Stodoys website and enter the world of woodworkers.
Your metal hammer would last you a lifetime, but I doubt that your plastic hammer wouldn't end up filling a box of replacement heads, that had gone bad... So I would say that the metal one is a lot more sustainable...
Ditto all that Mike Graham wrote.
I really agree with you, but whats up with the "subliminal" dovetails and planing out of no where ?!? (-:
FFS, you're a Limey, it's wondering not wandering!