Let's make a Quick Wooden Mallet  

Haha! Very nice of you to turn this beautiful walnut mallet! It sure sounds a lot better, and is also more pleasing to the eyes.

hahaha yessss... thanks for sharing Mike!

Nice little mallet thanks for sharing.

Nice mallet

Love it, simple use of what some might consider to be scrap.

An absolute beaut -Christian

Nice mallet! But I'll bet it doesn't work as well as your hatchet. Why? Because it's not heavy enough. And it won't take long for the drive center to beat the crap out of the mallet. It's a physics thing. What I've been using for years is a gnarly piece of dogwood limb about 3 inches in diameter and 18 inches long, squared off on one end. I turned the other end down a little to make it easier to grip. Instead of swinging it, I hold it vertically above the drive center and, for the most part, just let it drop. The end grain of the limb is the driving surface. Just a couple of licks - clunk clunk - and it's done. It stands on its end at the end of my lathe when not in use. For grins and giggles, try driving the center with a piece of firewood held so the end grain strikes the center. It needs to be a hard wood like oak or hickory; pine or poplar, for example, will not work very well. The key is that the driver needs to be a lot heavier than the drive center. - Old dude