Building a Mallet to Rule Them All!

I’ve been abusing all my tools recently, I needed to make a wooden mallet to quit tearing up all my chisels. I was just going to throw something together, but instead decided to make something pretty unique in this video.
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0:00 Abusing my chisel
0:12 Cutting the Maple parts of my mallet
1:25 Cutting the Purple Heart for the handle
1:46 Gluing the handle together
1:56 Cutting more Purple Heart for the mallet head
2:18 Cutting the handle and head of the mallet
2:53 Gluing the mallet head together
3:45 Cutting the mallet head and prepping to join the two pieces
4:30 Gluing the two pieces together
5:02 Creating Purple Heart dowels
5:35 Drilling holes in the mallet for dowels
6:24 Gluing in the dowels
7:22 Cutting the excess off and begin shaping the handle
8:44 Sanding and routing the edges
10:18 Finishing the mallet
10:55 Finished product

[@robbutler1947]

Fabulous! The only thing I would have done differently is the handle. I would have reversed the wood so the purple was on the outside and then made the top of the handle align with the purple wood in the head so that it would look like the darker wood "flowed" from the head to the handle. This video has inspired me.

[@riverjackstudio]

Totally agree with you, the whole time I was concerned about breaking up the mallet and thought the Maple overpowered the Purple Heart, that would have been a nice touch!

[@kong_dong_usmc6651]

Watching you work on the table saw it's scary, it reminds me of how I do things, lol. Great video, I might try out something similar, it have me some new ideas. Keep them coming.

[@riverjackstudio]

Hahaha, appreciate it!

[@robertmillstein8916]

Amazing!

[@davidlanders2853]

Beautiful, and functional, well done.

[@GrandHighMarshall]

Love it! Inspiring stuff M8

[@quirtdrozario856]

Wow!!!!! Fantastic job.

[@MASI_forging]

Outstanding work. 👍👍

[@rwelderby]

Beatiful job!

[@alfanazzamcraft]

I like your methods and equipment, very high quality, greetings from Indonesia 🙏🙏🙏👍🖐️♥️

[@theidlehandsworkshop3884]

I liked the build process, thanks for sharing your skills very much appreciated.

[@riverjackstudio]

Yeah no problem, thanks for watching!

[@garyp1945ify]

Beautiful and very functional!!

[@riverjackstudio]

Thanks! I abuse it a little too much already.

[@philcloutier6515]

Nice mallet! You had a great idea.

[@grantmarshall4558]

Very nice work

[@dirtfarmer7472]

Very nice

[@bg2608ret]

Good looking mallet

[@riverjackstudio]

Thanks! Already abusing it.

[@paulhefferan8106]

Sweet

[@onehandedmaker]

Just found your channel and subscribed. Nice mallet build and video. I want purpleheart! Regards James One Handed Maker

[@riverjackstudio]

Thanks for the sub!

[@walterrider9600]

sweet

[@patrickbrady8326]

Great Job nice looking Mallet. I'm curious though how much $ did you put into it you think?

[@riverjackstudio]

Materials wasn’t much around $15, but I probably spent around 8-10 hours on labor.

[@dryerthackston7088]

This is a beautiful mallet. Did you do anything to keep the purpleheart from turning brown over time?

[@riverjackstudio]

Just tung oil, in my experience it won’t brown for quite a while if kept out of the sun/oxidation, and I can just go back and re-sand/re-finish. I’ve done wax finishes before and I’ll apply it before the Purple Heart regains it’s color from sanding and it’ll actually turn colors over a longer period of time from a grey to deep purple, then eventually to brown.

[@odendaaloosthuizen2990]

To be honest, I wouldn't use this mallet for anything! It's way too beautiful to bang it on a chisel/ joinery or anything for that matter! 😊

[@riverjackstudio]

Well you’re going to have to skip several parts in my next video because I start out the gate abusing it haha. Appreciate the compliment!

[@tpleus]

Looks great, but man, your fingers get way too close to that table saw blade. Stay safe dude.

[@davidrobinson9972]

That's a pretty nice mallet. Go Hit something.

[@leonardmartin5145]

Don't ask to borrow my car dope