Members greg gomersall Posted March 21, 2009 Members Report Posted March 21, 2009 Greg, The one that looked like Bob's only worse was the double ended. Tne one with lead was single ended and made of lignum vitae. It didn't make sense to me to add that much lead with that heavy wood. Glad you like yours. Regards, Ben Ben in one of your posts you mentioned you had Bob Dellis's tools. I remember Bob showing me his stamping stick and he was pretty proud of the piece of rawhide covering the end. It was a chunk of elephant rawhide and he was pretty sure he wasn't goona be around long enough to wear it out. that was probably 10 years ago. Greg Quote
gtwister09 Posted March 21, 2009 Report Posted March 21, 2009 Greg, I do remember that one. I do not know who got that stamping stick. In fact I think that he may also have that on his video set as well. It has been more than 12 years since I looked at the videos so I may be mistaken. I know that he had some rhino and elephant rawhide both at one time so it is likely that it was one of those. Both would be extremely durable. I don't remember which one he used. I might watch the first one with the majority of the tools and see if he comments on it. Regards, Ben Quote
hidepounder Posted March 21, 2009 Report Posted March 21, 2009 Bob what are those mauls made of wood raw hide. Josh Josh, it's a stamping stick. Greg mentioned one earlier and I happened to have it under my bench, so I posted it so otheres could see what he was talking about.... Quote
Bree Posted March 21, 2009 Report Posted March 21, 2009 I never noticed that Bree! I'd like to have a lighter maul for the stuff I've been doing lately...I guess maybe that explains using the tip of the mallet....It seems like my patterns keep getting smaller which requires smaller tools...smaller tools require less strike... Yeah I was thinking that the heavier maul is no doubt used for brute force operations like cutting off the end of the billet where as the lighter mauls are used for touch operations like stamping. So there might be a very natural tendancy to be balancing the maul in the hand and striking closer to the end where the force is coming down naturally. The tool is doing most of the work in the smaller mauls. The action with the heavier maul is less about balance and more about arm action in practice. The natural force of my 64 oz maul dropping from a balance point most often is not sufficient to cleave the thick leather apart. It needs to get whacked! Quote Ride Safe! Bree 2003 Dyna Wide Glide Memberships: Iron Butt Association, Niagara Falls HOG, Wild Fire HOG NRA, Niagara County Sportsman's Association
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