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My "Wood is Good" mallet-believe about 20 oz. or so, with urethane head. Love the thing, have had for maybe a decade and use it for everything, from chisels to holdfasts.
Wooden mallet only, no steel hammers! I couldn't believe C.S. was using a metal hammer to set hold fasts on Roy's show a few months back.
Bob,I can't believe a LOT of what I see on that show!!:)
Truth. Don't let the CGI fool you:
https://youtu.be/mSCUpA2T1JQ?t=1m58s
Yabbut,MY show was different !!
I use a Craftsman Dead Blow most of the time. However, I have sometimes used the mallet I made a while back with the Jatoba head. That stuff is HARD! Hardly a mark after smacking my Gramercy holdfasts.
On a side note: I had to use a pointed punch and put little divets up and down the front & back of the holdfast shaft. Oh they worked just fine when I got them, but then after I flattened my bench top I applied wax. They never held at all after that until I punched the divets.
I use a garland split-head mallet with rawhide faces:
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Dead blow or Rawhide mallet