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.
If the thunder don't get you, the lightning will.
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.
Life's too short to use old sandpaper.
Bob,I can't believe a LOT of what I see on that show!!
Last edited by george wilson; 10-09-2015 at 10:48 AM.
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've cut the dang thing three times and it's STILL too darn short"
Name withheld to protect the guilty
Stew Hagerty
I use a garland split-head mallet with rawhide faces:
David B. Morris
"Holz ist heilig."
Dead blow or Rawhide mallet
Shawn
"no trees were harmed in the creation of this message, however some electrons were temporarily inconvenienced."
"I resent having to use my brain to do your thinking"