Pallet Mallet

I needed a wood mallet and kept forgetting to grab one at the store, so I made one. My buddy casey gave me some red oak pallets and they had been sitting in my woodshop (garage) for several months now. I figured I would try to make one from that wood.

Step 1: Preparing the wood

Remove any nails and thickness plane the boards. The board started at 1" thick by the time I was done the final thickness was 3/4 of an inch.

Comments

[The Valiant]

Great looking Hammer! I have some oak pallets sitting in my garage just waiting for a project like this - Thanks for the idea.

[djokimaki]

I bet that would look really slick if you turned it dowels and all! Nice work Ivan!

[perryb]

The only thing I disagree with is how useful those dowels are. I just made my mallet, and once you see it "live" you'll see that without the dowels, if you strike something hard, there is a lot of force trying to knock off the two outer layers of the mallet head. But yep, those dowels sure do add a lot of "cool" to the project. If I figure out how, I'll post pictures of my attempt at this project. Thanks!

[The Rambler]

Nice work. Those dowels are definitely a great touch.

[Morte_Moya]

I work with aluminum all day at work. Skinning monument signs. This would help a lot! Thanks for the idea!!!

[l8nite]

that's a good looking hammer, here's one I made several years ago http://www.instructables.com/id/A-wooden-persuader-hammer/ in about 10 minutes, it gets left all over the place but it comes so in handy that I made 2 more this year using a broken fiberglass shovel handle for one and a scrap of closet pole for the other

[yoyology]

If anyone ever asks, the answer to the question, "How many clamps do you need?" is always, "Just one more."

[Tupulov]

AAAAAAHA-HA-HA-HA! How true. No matter how many I accumulate in my Cave I always seem to be just one short!

[Tupulov]

Well done! This will be my project this coming weekend!

[kz1]

Very nice and simple. I think I might include the handle in the glue up, making sure to eliminate any play between handle and head bits. Great job on the one you built.

[esemjay]

You know if you added "cringe" paint... you could make this look like thor's hammer. Kid's would love it...

[shantinath1000]

VERY nice!

[pfred2]

I gave up trying to win a Tee shirt. Nice mallet you made. I've made a beetle myself out of pallet wood. Mine isn't nearly as fancy as yours is. I suppose I should try to make a bit nicer one someday. I like making tools and hammers are definitely one kind of tool that anyone can make.

I've posted an article to this site about a hammer I made:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Brass-Hammer-Build/

Next I want to make a hammer with a phenolic head. Here is a picture of my crude wooden hammer made out of pallet wood.

http://i.imgur.com/oTCjy.jpg

Nothing fancy but it gets the job done. I use it when I am gluing projects up, sometimes when I am chiseling.