{"id":875,"date":"2009-11-20T21:53:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T01:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:52:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:52:22","slug":"two-mallets-followed-me-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/two-mallets-followed-me-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Mallets Followed Me Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mallet_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mallet_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"picture of log\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>We live within a hundred yards of a woodlands, a large state park. My better half and I went hiking there a couple of days ago. On the way back home, I spotted a small log hiding under a guard rail along the roadside. A maintenance crew goes along the park roads every fall trimming limbs and trees that might fall upon the roadway during ice storms. They usually saw logs into firewood length and leave them to be picked up by whoever wants them. Someone missed this little log of black locust. I could see a couple of mallets inside that log, so I picked it up and carried it home (which worked off at least a Snickers bar).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mallet_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-886\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mallet_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"piecs of lumber\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I wanted to reduce this log a bit to help it dry without splitting too much. I would really like to rive the wood rather than cut it, but there are not yet any tools for green woodworking in my shop. My solution was to use a coarse setting of my #40 scrub plane to make flats on either side of the log. Then, a few passes through the band saw reduced it to pieces I think will be useful for mallet heads and handles. Those are set aside to dry for awhile.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain on the design yet.\u00a0 Maybe a sawed head, maybe a turned head. Of course, for the turned head I don&#8217;t have a lathe that&#8217;s large enough. I&#8217;ve been wanting to build one of &#8220;St. Roy&#8217;s&#8221; spring pole lathes. To be continued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live within a hundred yards of a woodlands, a large state park. My better half and I went hiking there a couple of days ago. On the way back home, I spotted a small log hiding under a guard rail along the roadside. A maintenance crew goes along the park roads every fall trimming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hand-tools","7":"category-shopmade","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8222,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/8222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}