Making A Purple Heart Mallet For THE MAN!!

[@michaelnorman5640]

As always beautiful craftsmanship!

[@PatientTortoise]

Great posting. Looked up the verse & thought, clever but thought provoking. Hammer, colour, carvings, THE MAN is so privileged. God bless you all. Australian Down Under.

[@kelewaekreation]

Absolutely gorgeous! I woke up to see this video posted. Had to watch it right away! Such a beautiful mallet, and I will use it with pride. And I am honored to support such a wonderful channel as your own. Be safe and God bless.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Enjoy! I hope you have as much fun with it as I did making it. thanks for the support man. it means more then we can say!

[@johnbernard6683]

Great project! Amazing to see the fresh cut purpleheart change color over the short duration from start to finish.

[@RuneCarverLLC]

Great idea and excellent video... you can never have too many mallets! :-) 👍👍👍 Here's a funny one for you-- I was at Harbor Freight yesterday looking at a scroll saw for a production idea... much faster and cleaner than coping saw. And thought "I'm not going to push all this stuff around and I need to make a pitstop... augh! ... Okay, that's done, and on the way back I stopped to check on tarps to collect wood chips then get back to the power tools. 😳😬🙈🙈🙈 Some guy blows in off the street and grabs my stuff, heads to the register, buys everything and takes off! 💁🙈🙈🙈😆🤣😂💁💁💁 So i ended up with a tarp for all my troubles! lol 🙄🙄🙄😂🤣😆

[@dpeter6396]

I made a purpleheart mallet of similar size, about 10 years ago and it has held up quite well. Has the right heft and feel upon striking with it. Good work!!

[@pmdinaz]

What a great combination! Sycamore looks gorgeous

[@sal1964]

Beautiful to nice to use

[@michaelmcdermott2178]

Lovely work! Thanks for sharing.

[@jmrivera83]

Absolutely amazing work! Love your videos.

[@MCsCreations]

Stunning work, James! Crazy beautiful mallet!!! 😃 Congrats, Michael!!! Stay safe there with your families! 🖖😊

[@chrisu5090]

Very nice😊 the verse is a nice touch

[@thebulletproofpoet1744]

You're having way to much fun.

[@Alex_Eggers]

wow, hopefully i can get my mallet finished this weekend.

[@blacknorce]

Looks great. Why don't people use Sycamore more often?

[@artswri]

Nice! I found a piece of firewood, built one!

[@dannyhale7645]

That was a cool project. I love the Bible verse. I've never worked with purple heart. It was so cool how the color changed while you were working on it.

[@leemarzahl8891]

Very COOL BUILD!!!

[@leemarzahl8891]

I really enjoy your channel! Very talented young man! Keep up the awesome work!

[@ianpearse4480]

You cut a tree down with a half inch chisel? Awesome. LOL.Very cool build James. It's always hammer time somewhere.

[@scottswineford6714]

Being the tool junkie you are I was surprised you didn't use a chair devil on the handle. Yeah I know it's a fancy scraper, though I've found them easier on my old thumb joints.

[@marcus3457]

Beautiful work. Collecting tools as quickly as I am able, hoping to start on my mallet project in the coming months.

[@MisterRose90]

Thanks for what you do.

[@hassanal-mosawi4235]

Thanks for sharing that!

[@allenguffey9370]

Beautiful

[@johnford7847]

Beautiful mallet, James - too beautiful to use. Nice video.

[@lejlej]

I've made a few mallets of different sizes. I made it even easier to make the mortise by laminating the heads.

[@paco_vazquez]

Wonderful weekend project, it’s quite persuasive 😂

[@kennethnielsen3864]

Thanks for sharing.

[@gjensen500]

James I totally enjoyed watching you make this mallet. I learn more by watching how you use each tool and your comments on your thought process. I need to start making my mallett since I bought a piece of ash just for the project. And I can use your card scrapper I bought from you which I really like how big and thick it is. I hope to see more videos on how you make things. Thanks.

[@alvagoldbook2]

Awesome vid and project, James! That sycamore is lovely. I’ve never gotten around to working with this timber, but I’m going to check my local lumber supply for some.

[@deang9061]

Very nice. A shipwright told me the mallet faces are at different angles for different swings. If you're choking up on the handle you want a steeper angle because you are making a smaller circle at the wrist. Opposed to the large circle made by a swing from the elbow.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I have seen people do that when they work with larger timbers. oddly enough that is the technical difference between a hammer and a mallet. a mallet is meant to be chocked up on where as a hammer you hold at the end of the hammer and swing it.

[@marcbarash6045]

Thanks James

[@cottrilltoolwoodworks]

Absolutely love QS sycamore, its hugely underrated and under used.

[@mrhobbs5713]

I think a video of making the Lincoln mallet would be great. Maybe would be several videos. BTW, great workmanship.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I thought about doing a video on one of those. Made one a few years ago but didn't video it.

[@Jason_Showman]

Awesome video James, I really enjoyed how the cut-portions of the purpleheart acted as highlights to the designs. Well done as always.

[@rawr2u190]

Wow that looks so good

[@bethzana4054]

Great tips, as always!

[@upsidedowndog1256]

Beautiful!

[@petedufault8047]

What a cool mallet! You are a true craftsman, always enjoy your videos.

[@lynxg4641]

Ah Boy James, you and your Oak, glad to see you use something different (just jealous, wish we could easily and affordably get oak here) ;-) Love that Sycamore, such beautiful grain. Next time you're going to be using some purple heart and want a contrasting, but matching wood, try getting ahold of some green heart, they work and look really good together - I have a mallet made of that combo and a just green heart one as well - actually like the green heart the most.

[@Durian480]

Your pieces are absolutely stunning! Seeing the gouge work on the finer work was brilliant. Do you have any suggestions for a beginner on where to get some good starting gouges? Again, thank you for the beautiful projects and great videos!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Here is a video on starting gouges. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZXRo5uli5yKfas and here is a video on starting carving. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYTbqalqjtx6kNksi=QXBptUwux6Iy1FfX

[@theidlehandsworkshop3884]

What an appropriate verse... loved the build and the carving, excellent work... sorry, can't make a snide comment this time :P

[@tomarmstrong1000]

Lovely Sycamore handle. Hope you haven't been around Hadrian's wall with your 1 inch chisel recently 🤔

[@bigpoppajeff]

K love that purple heart

[@robertberger8642]

Nice!

[@jasonbell3066]

I love the look of purple heart, but I’m having a very hard time planing it without a ton of tear out. Any tips for a relatively new woodworker?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

sharper iron and thinner cut will remove 90% of it. the rest you can get by moving the chip breaker closer tot he tip and closing up the mouth. I have a few videos on planning difficult grain if you want to see more. here is one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5Czl4yIirSfa5o

[@davidheglin926]

How do you keep the purple heart purple when adding the oil? Mine always turns brown when adding oil. Beautiful work there!

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

oxygen will turn it purple. The oil should just richen the tone of the purple. UV light will then turn it brown over time. I am not sure what oil would turn it brown. you might want to leave it out in the open air for a day or two before oiling it.

[@wouterengels7769]

Beautiful mallet, I'm sure the man will enjoy it! So did I miss it, or is there no glue between the handle and the head?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

No glue. The handle is a wedge and so the more you use it the more you swing at the tighter it gets. Plus you can take it apart if you need to.

[@anonymousaccordionist3326]

Is there more than one purple coloured wood? I've worked with (very small) pieces of wood that were intended to be purple heart, but none of it ever lost its colour when I worked it. Yours turned a light brown as soon as you planed or cut it. I carved the pieces I used and they never changed in colour throughout the process.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

There are several different variations of purple heart. Some of them oxidize differently at different rates.

[@Flyfishinchief]

Very nice, James! Love the verse, too. Question: in the carving, how often are you stropping your gouges?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

usually once every 10-20 minutes. for this project it was just once at the beginning.

[@Flyfishinchief]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo thanks, James!!

[@B.A.Bassangler]

...hide it under a bushel, NO!, I'm gonna..sorry I was distracted, lol. I watched a couple of Purpleheart finishing videos about oxidizing. None of them were with BLO or Shellac. Any tip(s)?

[@JackFright]

If you did not have a jack yet and you were going to do this project and decided you wanted the jack for it, would you buy the low angle or high angle?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

The traditional high angle is more difficult to learn but more versatile in the end. The low angle is preferred by most modern hybrid woodworkers as it's easier to learn.

[@JackFright]

@@WoodByWrightHowTothanks for that answer. Looking to follow suit on this mallet as my first project. Is Curupay usable for this purpose? I won’t be breaking it, I hope. And does handle material matter all that much? Found a 1.5 x 1.5 x 11 or so piece of flamed maple for cheap and it just seemed like it might be nice together with the curupay.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

that would work perfectly. it will be a pain to work bout would make a nice head. as to the handle most any hard wood is great for it. but you might want something a bit longer. even though you hold it by the head the handle provides balance.

[@alangknowles]

I find a single-sided glue stick works if you use a mirror.

[@christopherharrison6724]

I’m from 🇬🇧 Britain.Question is purple heart not a very expensive wood?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

It is a relatively expensive wood. It is commonly available and easy to get in South America but can be expensive to ship to the us.

[@DavidWhite]

James what sized V gouge did you use on the mallet... Thanks

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

60 degree 6mm

[@DavidWhite]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo Thanks James

[@Obscurity202]

Can you glue it or nah?

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Could if you wanted to but there's no reason to. The wedged handle makes it so it will never come off and it just slowly gets tighter and tighter. I like to leave it unglued just so I can easily pound the handle out if I ever need to.

[@Obscurity202]

Thanks @@WoodByWrightHowTo

[@ricos1497]

I prefer Jeremiah 23:29b: "always share the whole verse in the description, or pinned comment, rather than making people look it up" He was quite the prophet. "Is not my word like fire,” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?"

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Lol I like it.

[@davidlynn7161]

Comment down below.

[@Keithmwalton]

Careful working so close to The ends of those imported waxed blocks. They end check if you look at them wrong

[@rossanctuary5238]

Where's a good place to buy wood? Lumber is so expensive these days.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Check out. Www.lumberfinder.net

[@thebearcat4735]

Didn't even talk about how much purple heart stinks. Smells like farts to me.

[@MisterRose90]

Jame... I love you, brother. Please don't take this as an attack, but you need to start eating at a calorie deficet. You need to start worrying about it while it's still managable. Don't take this as gosple but if you start eating between 1600 to 1800 calories for a few weeks youll start to see results. Go online and find a calculator that takes your weight hight and age into account. You look to be about ~20% body fat you want to be around 15ish. I want you to stay healthy and hearty, brother. No shade. Love your work.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Thanks for the feedback man. no one knows that more then me. you should go back and watch the history of videos. I am notmaly on a 5 year swing. I will be on the down trend again here soon. about 10 years ago I lost over 100 lb.

[@MisterRose90]

@WoodByWrightHowTo holy molly. 100 lbs! that's amazing, James. Keep it up. You are the man!

[@ryanstieglitz777]

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[@ping170]

Comment smashed down below ;)

[@TheRealMagisD]

Comment down below .. wait a Sec .. WHY is that not a merch shirt ?????????????

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I like the way you think!