Today is Saturday March 5th 2022. I've been watching bushcraft and shelter building videos on and off for a few years. I first saw a video about this type of mallet less than 2 weeks ago. I saw another one yesterday. What an ingenious way to build a permanent hammer for your camp using nothing but a fat piece of round wood that's already out there when you get to wherever you're going to be.
Exactly my thoughts. No need to carry a heavy hammer or mallet in and out each time and so much more control, power, and comfort over a plain old stick. Thanks for your comment, and for watching the video, I greatly appreciate it 👍
I was wrong for this. Went on a hiking trip and there was a sugar maple on the ground. Here I am making a mallet not thinking of the type of wood I’m using. Now I’m typing with sap covered hands. However, great tutorial.
Oh no! That's a sticky situation you got yourself into there 😁, on the plus side at least the mallet is unlikely to slip out of your hand!😁 All joking aside it's great to get out there and try, it would have caught me out too as I know nothing about sugar maple wood at all. I'm glad you found this video useful my friend ☺️ Thanks so much for watching and commenting
@@MulhavenBushcraft it’s great. Got a whittling jack and a morakniv for Christmas, and so I chopped up the Christmas tree to make things. Was gonna buy a mallet, then saw this! So I know have a suitably shonky mallet! Great stuff!
Thanks for sharing! I can’t wait to make one. Doesn’t have to be perfect. That’s my problem. 😂😂 I want it perfect. But like you said it’s not going to stay that way for long. So why laser focus on that.
You are so welcome! Ye exactly, quite often I find that perfection is the enemy of getting things done! It has it's place also of course. Thanks for watching, and enjoying getting out there and making your mallet my friend 🌲☺️🌲
True enough for short term, for bigger, longer term projects though I prefer having a wooden mallet. Also I'm often using the mallet to bang the back of my hatchet to knock out notches etc. Thanks for the input, and thanks for watching 🌲😊🌲
I only really use my mallets to hit wood with, i.e. wooden mallet hitting in wooden dowels. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'the spot that is touching the metal ' Do you mean when making the mallet? Or when actually using it?
@@MulhavenBushcraft I use my mallet to hit in iron wedges in large wooden logs to split them. Problem is that my mallet begins to down pretty fast. Iron hammers hurt my large ears.
@@johannesd9042 ye I see the problem now, iron Vs wood only gonna be one winner. I hate the sound of iron on iron too, for that I use a good pair of ear muffs
