L. Johnson wrote:
Gunnar, you're missing a picture of you holding it and showing your thumb and forefinger touch. Can you post the additional photo? Then we can probably approve it.
I made the club style mallet out of some wood from a tree that was removed at the nearby school. Based on the grain pattern, I believe it to be the trunk of a young ash tree.
This mallet should be a significant improvement over my previous hatchet mallet, which was just a branch that was too fat to comfortably hold.
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Log, before shaping
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cut to length with pruning saw, shaped with hatchet
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Fits comfortably in hand. smoothed handle a bit with knife.
This is step 1 for me to learn everything I can about round-wood woodworking to build a farm-stand from the land. Let the adventure continue!!!
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My new club raw
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Half wayish
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Finished Mallot
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~What are you going to do now?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Goin straight Bob. I don’t know, get a job, find myself a gal.. or, I dunno what people do nowadays, build-a, uh, a barn maybe, paint the barn with the gal, put the gal in the barn, you know; American dream."