Hey everybody, it's Taylor with Boydston Grove
and today we're going to make a super big mallet! I just ordered this draw knife off of Amazon.
It's a tool that I've always wanted to learn how to use, so today we're going to try it out by
debarking a log and making a giant mallet. Let's get into it!! For the head of this mallet, I'm
just using an old log that i had in the burn pile. I used a small chainsaw to cut it
down to the size that I wanted. Normally you would do this using a
carving bench. I don't have one of those, so I just set up a stop on the end of my
workbench and I'm gonna make that work. This tool definitely takes some getting used
to, but once you get the hang of it, it is a great tool.
It removes a lot of material really
fast and it can make the surface really smooth. For the handle, I'm using a piece of oak
that I had laying around the shop. I used the table saw to cut off all four corners
and then I used a few sanders to shape it. The more I'm using the draw knife and just really
getting a feel for it, the more i love this tool. You can use it to remove large amounts
of material like debarking a log. Or with a little bit of finesse, you can use it
like a hand planer and really fine tune a project. Just to add a little interesting feature, I use
my dremel to carve out some spirals up the handle.
I really wanted to do something with
the end of the handle of this mallet, so I decided to do the same thing that I did
with the end of the handle on the battle axe that I built a while ago. I got a galvanized
pipe cap and I used my grinder and sander to shape it to how I wanted it and then I used some
e6000 to attach it to the end of the handle. So normally I would use resin
to fill all the gaps and cracks, but I'm completely out.
So I decided to use wood
epoxy instead. If you haven't used this before, it is really great stuff. It is a two-part
epoxy that you can mix with your hands and then you just push it into the cracks or gaps that
you're filling. It dries rock hard it is sandable and it absorbs stain so that it can match the wood
pretty well. Once the epoxy was dry and sanded, I went ahead and added a quick coat of stain
and then a couple coats of polyurethane. Before finishing up, I decided to add a little bit of leather on the handle just
to fancy it up a little bit.
Alright! Now that our mallet is finished, it's time to test it out! But
first I want to show somebody. these copper nails just kind of spruce
it up a little bit you know make it look fancy and everything… Hey! What are you doing? …and there it
is! uh, hey man! What's up! I was just showing everybody my mallet. That's not a mallet,
this is a mallet! Here, check that out. Dude!! Oh yeah! I'm gonna need it back. I haven't
even tried it out yet. That's pretty cool! I like this! Dude! I want to play with it! Come on! I have to have it back! Oh come on
man, I meant to use it like a tool! yet god! Little dramatic, don't you
think? Now we can test it out!! All right, this turned out great and it was so
much fun to build and a great way to learn how to use the draw knife.
It's a new tool that I
will be using a lot more from this point on. I really like the way this turned out. It
just looks really cool and I will definitely get some good use out of it, as soon as i get
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