What a troglodyte does with scrap

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Well the troglodyte found a few pieces of scrap pieces of plywood and a piece of cratewood at the reuse center and took em home. He has dreams of making purdy mallets, but since he soesnt make anything, he oughta practice and do a sample or two to find out the correct sizing. So he glued it all up and made a mallet. Grunt work, nothing fancy or purdy, but good practice. ‘Bout 12” long 3” dia at widest

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Well the troglodyte found a few pieces of scrap pieces of plywood and a piece of cratewood at the reuse center and took em home. He has dreams of making purdy mallets, but since he soesnt make anything, he oughta practice and do a sample or two to find out the correct sizing. So he glued it all up and made a mallet. Grunt work, nothing fancy or purdy, but good practice. ‘Bout 12” long 3” dia at widest

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Nice job, Lil Mikie. You did a swell job. It looks good. Now, what we ought to do is start a contest on how many hits this will take before it breaks. ............. Nubs
 
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Wow! I’m surprised you have scraps considering you don’t cut into the main supply at all. I’ll assume they are from other people.

Hey, at least he’s doing something apart from hoarding.
 
Nice mallet, Mike!

Now that you have had practice we would like to see one made from crappy old wrinkled wood scraps. :cool:
 
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Nice job, Lil Mikie. You did a swell job. It looks good. Now, what we ought to do is start a contest on how many hit this will take before it breaks. ............. Nubs
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You are probably 100% correct. With the battle with sweat running intp my eyes, i forgot to through drill and do a dowel or rod. But no big loss, i did it to see which shape i liked best. Gonna do 4or 5 different shapes out of scraps before i do the ones out of rare wood. Plus it gives me much needed practice. And on the real plus side, i got to manhandle some of my, new to use, but sitting on the shelf for 4 years, Ashley Harwood tools. They tingled my jingles!
 
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And on the real plus side, i got to manhandle some of my, new to use, but sitting on the shelf for 4 years, Ashley Harwood tools. They tingled my jingles!
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She sat next to me for lunch one day at SWAT a couple of weeks ago. It was a pleasure to share light conversation with her.
 
She's a good teacher - she did a demo for iur club a few months ago. Highly recommend.
 
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