The mallet is really starting to take shape

I was able to go out and spend some time on the mallet yesterday and it is really starting to take shape. Like most of my projects this involved doing a lot of things for the first time. I removed the safety guards on the tablesaw for the first time (I made sure the kids were inside) and made a tenon on the tablesaw.

This is how the head started out looking.

I cut the end to make it uniform and then realized that the mitre saw was still set to 2 degrees from when I made the wedge from inside the mallet head.

Now the head is all squared up.

I set the tablesaw at a 15 degree angle to chop off the corners of the head.

Checking to make sure the angle was set up correctly.

I drew on the end of the head so that I could verify that the blade and the fence were setup correctly before I cut the corners off.

I placed the head on the end of the handle so I could mark how much to nibble off.

I used a spacer block to help avoid kickback. That’s what all the woodworkers on YouTube do so I figured that I would play it safe and do the same thing.

I cut a smaller section first to fine tune the fit before I did the whole section.

Just verifying the mark that I made earlier. I ended up starting on the top of the mark so that I could have a little bit sticking out of the top of the head.