How To Make Rawhide Mallet

There are several sizes of non weighted and weighted rawhide mallets ranging from 0 to 10 that are perfect for your projects.

How to make rawhide mallet. Handle is turned on the lathe from an old piece of plum. Making another homemade tool a dead blow wooden mallet. The rawhide mallet is ideal when it is crucial that the workpiece surface be disrupted as little as possible. How do i replace the rawhide tips in the kind of hammer that has a solid head the standard thor hammers not the split head or screw on kind.

I still can t figure out what i would use to make the leather stiffen to the point that it works as a hammer. The brass part is a standard 3 4 t fitting and it s partially filled with lead. It delivers firm yet gentle blows to the workpiece. However the rawhide type allows you to hammer with a controlled impact.

Inspired by roy at christ centered ironworks on youtube i decided to make my own large rawhide mallet to achieve better finish results on some of my steel work. They appear to be swaged around the rawhide tips and when you remove a tip there is no way to force a new one in without skiving material off the tip and ending up with a loose tip. Today kate richbourg gives us a quick video tutorial about how to begin using the rawhide mallet. Before using your rawhide mallet on metal workpieces it is essential to condition and soften the mallet s face to ensure it will not mar the metal.

I was somewhat dismayed though after searching online for large rawhide mallets and discovered there were few to. Ok so we discussed it briefly on my thread about making a mallet grip but after not finding anythign i have decided to ask again. Regular hammers cause scratches and dents during the hammering impact. Ronnie mares of our in house jewelry tech team.

How would i make a rawhide mallet.