MAKING A JOINER’S

MALLET
Posted 28 July 2016

Categories: Free, Mallet, No Video, Tools &

Techniques

Making a wooden mallet is a traditional

apprentice piece in which you can
practice your mortise and tenons as
well as shaping skills. It also provides
you with a handmade and very useful
tool to have in your toolbox for years to
come. Paul shows you how to construct
and =nesse the shape of his favourite
mallet design.

Please note: This project does not have

a downloadable drawing.

CUTTING LIST

SIZE
PART SIZE (MM)
(INCHES)

150 x 100 x
Head 6″ x 4″ x 3″
75

3/4″ x 1 3/4″ x 19 x 45 x
Handle
14″ 355

TOOLS NEEDED:
Knife
Square
Combination gauge (or marking
gauge and mortise gauge)
Chisel hammer
Chisels (3/4″ and 1″)
Tape/Ruler
Smoothing plane
Spokeshave
Handsaw
Bowsaw (optional)
Tape/Ruler (or both)
Sliding bevel
Brace/drill driver & 11/16” bit
Rasp/File

THE JOINTS USED IN THIS

PROJECT:
Tapered Mortice and Tenon

Next: Making a Joiner’s Mallet:

Part 1

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13 COMMENTS

bcullen says:
1 August 2016 at 1:03 am

Do you think mesquite would make a good

mallet? Here in Texas I can get it fairly easily
from just about anyone selling =rewood.

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Martin McColl says:

3 August 2016 at 6:18 am

Some time ago I made one out mesquite

with an oak handle, it was a scaled down
version to make use of a piece I had on
hand. It weighs the same as my go to
chisel mallet so it does not get much use,
although the use it has seen indicated
that it should hold up OK. The Mesquite
Mallet can be seen in this picture.

https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/
wp-
content/uploads/2015/11/DSC02093.jpg

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bcullen says:
6 August 2016 at 7:28 pm

Thanks.

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Michael Barnes says:

1 August 2016 at 9:36 am

Is this the same mallet we saw a couple of

years ago? The date suggests it was added
recently but I know I’ve seen this before

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Mark Hawkins says:

3 August 2016 at 11:00 am

@barrygee Yes, this is the same mallet.

We are in the process of neatening things
up a bit on the Tools & Techniques page
to make it a bit more comprehensible. To
that end I am trying to get all the videos
from one sequence nested under a Main
Page. At the moment, this means that this
new main page will pop up with a very
recent date, so you will probably see a
few more examples of this before we
=nish.

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Mike Bulger says:

9 August 2016 at 3:19 pm

Is that a ‘fat’ spokeshave? I would like to

acquire a spokeshave for this project, but
am unsure of which type I need.

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David R. says:
9 August 2016 at 7:31 pm

Paul usually uses a fat spokeshave, it

works well for this task. Since the blade is
protruding below the plane, it can create
a hollow shape. A round bottomed
spokeshave is apparently not as easy to
use and intended for tighter radii. In
“Essential Woodworking Hand Tools” he
states that the fat sole one works best for
concave curves with a radius down to 6″.

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Brian McCarty says:

9 November 2017 at 11:29 pm

I just completed this mallet out of some left-

over white ash. Such a simple design. I don’t
know if it is that simple pride, or great
design/materials, but this is for sure my
favorite mallet. My daughter thinks it looks
like Thor’s hammer.

Thank you so much for sharing your

knowledge.

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Kalman Grof-Tisza says:

25 January 2019 at 2:47 pm

I am relatively new to woodworking and Just

=nished my mallet last night and it came
out pretty good. I made it head out of
wenge and the handle out of tigerwood. The
wenge has some crazy grain in it and was
pretty hard on my planes and chisels. But
without your videos to guide me I wouldn’t
have been able to do it. I posted the pics in
the gallery. Thank you for the great
instruction!

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Dmitry V says:
14 August 2019 at 10:05 pm

Hello,

It’s seems like that link does’t work –

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE DRAWING
AND CUTTING LIST FOR THIS PROJECT.

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Izzy Berger says:

15 August 2019 at 9:18 am

Hi,

Thank you for letting us know.

This is one of our older projects which

doesn’t have a downloadable drawing. We
are working on removing the link to this
to avoid confusion.

Kind Regards,
Izzy

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Larry Geib says:

15 August 2019 at 9:34 pm

There are still these drawings up on the

web.

https://paulsellers.com/2013/04/heres-my-
mallet/

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Benoît Thomoux says:

14 February 2020 at 12:27 pm

Seeing the drawings in the above link, it

seems the angle of the head stock is
about 13°. Isn’ It too much ? I heard more
of 5° which is the natural angle from one’s
elbow to the mallet head.
I think too much angle would cocked
one’s wrist too much during the swing of
the mallet ?
Thanks in advance for any input.

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