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Is maple a great wood to use for a mallet?

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Maple is a good choice, Hard maple being best but “soft” maple is okay, a bit softer than sugar maple. Often old mallets were made of burled hardwoods that were very resistant to splitting and chipping. Hickory would be fine, so would white oak. I have a hard maple mallet I made years ago that works fine. read more

Maple is a good choice, Hard maple being best but “soft” maple is okay, a bit softer than sugar maple. Often old mallets were made of burled hardwoods that were very resistant to splitting and chipping. Hickory would be fine, so would white oak. I have a hard maple mallet I made years ago that works fine. the Handle is also maple. read more

Different shapes and sizes as well. One of my favorite mallets a round handle, with a fatter round head. All one piece of wood, Maple. It’s “officially” a chisel mallet, but, I use it for darn near everything and if I want a softer dead blow on it, I have a leather bag I found at a garage sale that I put over it. read more

If you're seating parts into wooden joints or some fine work with wood carving gouges, it ought to be really nice. Make some crude, almost disposable, mallets for the splitting and rough work. I carve with a 12oz and a 30oz polyurethane-faced mallet. Some strikes as hard as I can swing. read more

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