How to Make a Mallet From Scrap Wood

Hey everybody it's Taylor with Boydston Grove 
and today we're going to show you how to make   a pair of woodworking mallets. Let's get into it! As you may or may not know, Krisztina and I 
also work on a lot of furniture restorations and   furniture makeovers and sometimes we run across 
those pieces that, despite our best efforts,   are just not salvageable. Well ,most of 
the pieces we work with are solid wood,   so rather than just getting rid of them, I 
disassemble them and try to salvage what I can   out of them and use it for other projects.

So I 
end up with a lot of odd shaped pieces like this.   So today we're going to take a couple of these 
and try to build some new mallets that I can use   around the shop. I started by using my table saw 
to mill down the boards to be all the same size.   I'm not really sure what species all this wood 
is, some of it definitely looks like red mahogany   and the rest of it doesn't look 
like red mahogany, I have no idea.

Now, because this wood is from different pieces 
of furniture, it has a lot of nail holes and dowel   holes in it which means that I'm gonna have to 
cut around these in order to make the mallets,   which means I'm not really 
going for any specific size,   I'm just trying to find pieces of the wood 
that are solid, without too many holes. Once I had all the pieces roughly cut down to 
where I wanted them, I just glued them together. I used some packing tape around the top of the 
handles to make sure that they wouldn't stick   in the mallet heads while it's gluing up. That 
way I could remove the handles to shape them. Once the mallet heads were dry, I took them 
back to the chop saw to put an angle on one end.   I used a round over bit in my router to put some 
round overs on all four sides of the handles.

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Then I decided to put a small chamfer 
on all the edges of the mallet heads. I cut some small shims from some of the 
cutoffs to be able to use to set the handles. Once the mallets had been sanded for the last 
time, we finished them off with some Danish oil. All right, our pair of woodworking mallets 
are finished and I'm really happy with how   they came out. I mean, just some scrap wood from 
some beat up furniture and now I have a pair of   really nice mallets to use in the shop. Still 
not really sure what kind of wood these are.   This one I'm pretty sure is red mahogany, 
this one I have no clue. If you have any idea,   please let me know in the comments below, or 
we can give a shout out to Nick Offerman and   have him come smell them for us! If you enjoyed 
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love to hear what you thought of this project   in the comments below. Thank you very much 
for watching! Be safe and have a great day!.

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