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28 March 2015 at 12:46 am #126001
Sycamore’s very split resistant but not the hardest of hardwoods so probably won’t give the best transmission of energy. That’s if we’re talking about the same sycamore, I’m led to believe it refers to different trees in the UK and USA.
Matt
I made the mallet out of a very knotty area where the tree forked. Talk about some twisted grain. I finished and have tried it out on my joiners tool box project and it sure beats the Plastic head mallet that I was using. There doesn’t seem to be to much mushing so maybe it’s a good one.
7 April 2015 at 4:24 am #126301Hi Sandy
If you still have the Mall berry and it’s green make one from it that stuff is like iron when it’s dry.
FrankjI used a chunk of maple for mine. I just made a cutting board with the breadboard ends out of a board of honey locust that grows around here in Canada. That stuff is hard as a rock, but mine was air dried if that makes any difference. I was thinking that it would make a great mallet. I’ll have to look around after the next wind storm to see if anyone is cutting one down to try it. I also had a board of black locust. Apparently the old timers used to use the lumber for fencing. Anyways if anyone gets the chance to get some of these species, they are really hard woods (I beat on a section with a steel hammer and could not dent it, but I’m not sure about resistance to splitting though)
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