Thanks to the help of a few members, I made Hammer 001
I made a maple Paduk mallet
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Well that sure came out nice! Any progress pics to share?
Here’s what I’ve got, if anyone wants a hand building their own mallet, i’de be happy to help or run a tutorial ect.
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Where did you obtain your stock from ? They look like well finished boards and the paduak seems a reasonable price (if that was what you paid for it in the chalk marking).
I got the paduk from https://www.woodwiseuk.co.uk/
And the maple from http://www.chilterntimber.co.uk/
I finished them in the space using the Thicknesser planer
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Thanks 2 new suppliers to me - will add them to my resource list !!
I drove out to Chilterns a while ago, great guys good to go out and talk to.
Wood wise ship for £8 so not too bad either
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Always the possibility of co-ordinating an order with others; good to get feedback on customer service and product quality from a new company.
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That’s one fiiiiiine mallet 
it came out amazing, love the contrast between the wood
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Beautiful! If you do a tutorial I’d be very keen.
More than happy to do one when the woodshop is open again after moving! However due to gluing time it would need to be a two sessions event, second in much quicker (just cutting, attaching the handle, and a whole lot of Sanding)
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Nice job Paul. It looks great.
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Looks great! I assume you rounded the handle by sanding? How do you get it symmetrical like that?
Table Router and sandpaper, really happy how it came out… Symmetrical, just lucky I guess 
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My guess would be with a router and stop block to stop the roundover at a set point. Also looks like slight scorch marks at the top of the handle which the router bit would have caused if it was held there too long possibly on a table ?
Just typing this and you answered !
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That is correct, let’s of Sanding to remove the scorching
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