What do you use to whack your holdfasts?

[Peter Pedisich]

[Tony Zaffuto]

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.

[Bob Glenn]

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.

[george wilson]

Bob,I can't believe a LOT of what I see on that show!!

[Harold Burrell]

I'm with Harold.

I have a following.

[Barry Dima]

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

[george wilson]

Yabbut,MY show was different !!

[Roy Lindberry]

I use this jointer's mallet that I made. The faces are covered with leather. I've noticed lately some serious indentations in the face of the mallet. Maybe I'm striking the holdfasts too hard, or maybe I should use a different tool? The mallet head is white oak. What do you use for pounding your holdfasts?

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I also use a wooden joiners mallet I made. Mine has a hickory head, and is quite dented from setting holdfasts, but I don't mind.

[Stew Hagerty]

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.

[David B. Morris]

I use a garland split-head mallet with rawhide faces:

[Shawn Pixley]

Dead blow or Rawhide mallet