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RE: Rubber mallet vs dead low hammer - 6270_Productions - 09-23-2019
(09-23-2019, 06:25 AM)WxMan Wrote: Me, too. The orange dead blow is my go-to beater. Must be an Iowa thing.
I have both the 1 lb orange dead blow and a rubber mallet. Never use the rubber mallet.
I have been making a concerted effort to remember that I turned a round mallet from a big chunk of apple wood last year to whack chisels with.
I have a rubber mallet around here somewhere. I stopped using it because it made marks on my wood. I think I removed it from the drawer because it made the drawer hard to close, but not sure where I put it.
I bought a metal lathe and took my orange hammer out to use it there. Yep, grease and oil all over the hammer - so I bought a black hammer for the wood shop. I just couldn't get used to using the black hammer in the wood shop, so I bought another orange hammer for the metal lathe and brought my original orange hammer back into the wood shop. Now my drawer is crowded again - because I have an orange hammer in there as well as a black hammer (which I rarely use in the wood shop).
Yea, I know. Why is my life so difficult?
RE: Rubber mallet vs dead low hammer - Timberwolf - 09-23-2019
(09-23-2019, 07:51 AM)6270_Productions Wrote: I have a rubber mallet around here somewhere. I stopped using it because it made marks on my wood. I think I removed it from the drawer because it made the drawer hard to close, but not sure where I put it............................
I bought a metal lathe and took my orange hammer out to use it there. Yep, grease and oil all over the hammer - so I bought a black hammer for the wood shop. I just couldn't get used to using the black hammer in the wood shop, so I bought another orange hammer for the metal lathe and brought my original orange hammer back into the wood shop. Now my drawer is crowded again - because I have an orange hammer in there as well as a black hammer (which I rarely use in the wood shop).
Yea, I know. Why is my life so difficult?
I don't have a rubber mallet or a dead blow hammer...I do have a large rawhide mallet for woodwork, steel hammers out the wazoo and both a copper and a lead hammer for my metalworking machines...Machinists have used lead hammers for more than 100 years to center stock in their lathes.....One can never have too many hammers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGMOB2K78iM
RE: Rubber mallet vs dead low hammer - Admiral - 09-23-2019
I have a rubber mallet, but it's somewhere in the shop covered with dust . . . . replaced by wood and dead blow long ago . . . .
RE: Rubber mallet vs dead low hammer - 6270_Productions - 09-23-2019
(09-23-2019, 08:32 AM)Timberwolf Wrote: ...........................
I don't have a rubber mallet or a dead blow hammer...I do have a large rawhide mallet for woodwork, steel hammers out the wazoo and both a copper and a lead hammer for my metalworking machines...Machinists have used lead hammers for more than 100 years to center stock in their lathes.....One can never have too many hammers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGMOB2K78iM
". . . never have too many hammers."
Agreed - but you gotta get bigger drawers.
RE: Rubber mallet vs dead low hammer - Timberwolf - 09-23-2019
(09-23-2019, 09:30 AM)6270_Productions Wrote: ". . . never have too many hammers."....................
Agreed - but you gotta get bigger drawers.
I'm not touching that...........
RE: Rubber mallet vs dead low hammer - 6270_Productions - 09-23-2019
(09-23-2019, 01:52 PM)Timberwolf Wrote: ....................
I'm not touching that...........
RE: Rubber mallet vs dead low hammer - daddo - 09-23-2019
For bench work and something that doesn't get in the way, I made what I call a hand knocker. An old rusty ball hitch with compressed leather pads on one end. If a metal surface is fine, you just turn it around and use as a hammer- works on nails too.
![[Image: kYdvMIY.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/kYdvMIY.jpg)
I glue the leather and use high pressure in the press to compress it.
RE: Rubber mallet vs dead low hammer - Bibliophile 13 - 09-23-2019
Once I tried using a rubber mallet for joint assembly. Once.
It just bounced right off. And it lleft marks on the wood.
Now I keep it around for occasional auto repair jobs--not for woodworking.
RE: Rubber mallet vs dead low hammer - daddo - 09-23-2019
I have 20+ hammers. Pick hammer, chip hammer, square/round body hammer, rubber one, soft plastic end hammers, tack hammers, pin hammer, claw and frame hammers, small and big ball peen hammers, wooden hammers/mallets, arm & hammer, sledge hammer. Many as old as I am.
Hardly use most of them, but boy do they look impressive hanging up in the shop.