How To Build A Wood Mallet

A basic wooden mallet is probably one of the easiest things to build and does not take a lot of experience or material.

How to build a wood mallet. Mallet head is a wood sandwich The head is glued up from four pieces of wood. Here I will show you step by step how I built this wooden dead blow mallet. You can build a simple one or a more fancier one.

Building a DIY mallet is a great woodworking project for beginners but that doesnt mean they cant be beautiful. For this project I decided to use some fancy leftover coconut palm wood but any wood will do. Of course the angles are incorrectly maked they should read 875 degrees.

You need only two pieces of hardwoodäóîwe used maple for the head and hickory for the handle. Now glue your 45 mm pieces on the outside of the handle but dont glue the handle itself. Then clamp one half of the layers to the underside as shown.

The handle locks into a wedge-shaped mortise for a fit that tightens with use. 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. The two outside pieces are cut to the full height and length of the mallet head.

Heres My Mallet Making My Wooden Mallet. How to make a Wooden Mallet Mill the wood to size. Ive made a dozen or so mallets in the last 4-5.

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. Cutting the striking faces at a 25 degree angle. This is an easy way to construct a mortise and tenon joint that doesnt require a super thick piece of wood and allows the.