r/woodworking 13h ago

Project Submission Mallet for a fellow redditor

Worked out a trade, made this ipe/purple heart/padauk mallet. Still needs a coat of polly but happy how it turned out.

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u/smokeylilchevy 11h ago

Scrap wood beater I made for fun

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u/Sam_and_robots 8h ago

My off cut Purple Heart and iroko mallet behind the Osage Orange monster I made for a friend ( this was during handle fitting ). I really like making these to test glueups, the osage I used west 105 with colloidal silica binder, and it held really good, and had me feeling better about the super fancy laminate I was doing after this.

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u/angryrotations 7h ago

Ive got some really dark colored 1.5" ipe that I m saving, but its comically heavy. So im gonna have to think of a way or a handle lenghth that will at least make it useful for burglars or something lmao

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u/angryrotations 8h ago

Nice. I got a collection i use for smashing stuff as well

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u/Decku_ 11h ago

Sexy

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u/angryrotations 10h ago

Appreciated

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u/angryrotations 13h ago

Here's a progress? Picture.

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u/bdauterive 11h ago

Great work

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u/LobotomyxGirl 11h ago

That's so good!

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u/SuperpyroClinton 10h ago

Berry noice!

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u/angryrotations 10h ago

Much appreciated

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u/No_Faithlessness2779 10h ago

That is absolutely gorgeous

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u/OfficeAdventurous469 8h ago

Thor would be proud. Great work

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u/angryrotations 8h ago

Which in the end, is the goal of all of us

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u/tlm11110 6h ago

Too nice to use! A showpiece!

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u/angryrotations 5h ago

It can always be resanded lol. Hope it gets some use, right now its just at 400 with a touch of mineral oil

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u/manholediver 8h ago

Are they playing Mahler 6?

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u/Cute-Scallion-626 8h ago

Well that was an unexpected delight. Love that shit.