Maul? Mallet? Hammer?

[Spinner]

Don't forget about Bearman Mauls & Beary Mauls. I've had a Barry King, Al Stohlman and tried a Bob Beard and I like the new material Ed "The Bearman" & Beary LaBarre are using; it is better than any of them. I have a 28oz. for punching and have a 21oz and a 9oz on the way to fill some spots/replace others. Once my budget for them comes back up I'll be replacing my 16oz with one of their mauls as well. Here's a pic of the custom handled (Amboyna Burl) 28oz Beary made for me last year. Even pounding with nearly 2lbs on slot & hole punches, there almost no impact vibration. Ed's surprising me on the custom wood option for the two new ones. They can be reached at LeatherBurnishers@Yahoo.com

I'm working on updating their website (http://www.leatherburnishers.com) for them to add the maul info so here's a little info in the meantime:

Standard BearMaul weights are from 14oz up to 21oz. and start at $74.50 are available using one of many types of wood such as, Cocobolo, Rosewoods, Figured Asian Satinwood, Purple Heart, Paduak, & possibly more.

BearMauls from 22oz up to 28oz, will add $10.00 to the price because of the larger head material required.

Custom mauls are limited only by our combined imaginations. An example of a Custom Bearman Maul feature is a special medallion in place of the standard decorated head cap. Custom BearMauls start at $87.50 on up. The price varies depending on the type of wood wanted, & other Customization options.

Each BearMaul is a Handmade Very Functional work of Art, which takes time to make. Wait times can range from 2 weeks up to about 4 months, depending on work load, & complexity of design. Priority shipping for a single Maul, within the US is $9.50 and for most other contries is just $18.95 .

Previous Bearman Maul photos can be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/BearMauls

Cheers,

Chris

P.S. - yeah, I know it's a dead old thread, but since it was revived it made sense to add recent info of one of our member vendors.

Edited May 2, 2012 by Spinner

[Mudruck]

Don't forget about Bearman Mauls & Beary Mauls. I've had a Barry King, Al Stohlman and tried a Bob Beard and I like the new material Ed "The Bearman" & Beary LaBarre are using; it is better than any of them. I have a 28oz. for punching and have a 21oz and a 9oz on the way to fill some spots/replace others. Once my budget for them comes back up I'll be replacing my 16oz with one of their mauls as well. Here's a pic of the custom handled (Amboyna Burl) 28oz Beary made for me last year. Even pounding with nearly 2lbs on slot & hole punches, there almost no impact vibration. Ed's surprising me on the custom wood option for the two new ones. They can be reached at LeatherBurnishers@Yahoo.com

I'm working on updating their website (http://www.leatherburnishers.com) for them to add the maul info so here's a little info in the meantime:

Cheers,

Chris

P.S. - yeah, I know it's a dead old thread, but since it was revived it made sense to add recent info of one of our member vendors.

I'll second the Beary & Bearman mauls. Got one a little while ago and it is absolutely amazing! The head material can't even be compared to the poly head material. I had a 16oz Tandy AS maul and even at 16oz it felt front heavy. The Beary maul that I got has a balance that you almost have to feel to describe. When you're holding it, the 21oz Beary maul feels lighter then the 16oz AS but weighs a full 21oz and is much easier on the wrist after hours of tooling.

[88 Custom Leathers]

I am looking into getting a new set of mallets, mauls, but its a bit interesting to see the different weights used fro different thing. I have a 24 oz maul that I use religiously for my punches. though I have been weary about what weight seems suitable for tooling...any suggestions from my fellow leather pounders out there?

[genewshipp]

I have not read every post here....but I recently destroyed my Craftool maul.

I was basket weaving two layers of 1/16" leather.  Not sure what weight that is.

Because I had stamped it the first time with so much water that it was soggy, it looked poor. 

Very.

Ugly.

So with the right amount of water,  which was a little hard to tell (a) because I had already stamped it and (b) because it is very white veg tan leather (from Tandy) it was hard to see much burnish, if any, after re-stamping an area.  The stamp is a Tandy hourglass basket weave.  (See a pattern?)

Point is I was hitting it very hard.   Had to to get a good looking impression.  That and i previously whacked my daughter's flower stamp so hard that I broke my granite.  That time the leather was thinner than 1/16 and one layer.

The maul (i'm guessing two pound, it was the biggest one they had the day I was there) now has divots in it.  If I hit one of them along its edge it turns the maul.

Will every maul do this,  if hit hard enough?  Or are Craftool mauls softer than the high dollar ones?

I probably did not have the leather soaked all the way through on both occasions.  I realize that that adds to how hard I had to hit.

Gene

[brmax]

Them Beary mauls look pretty dang nice, I'm late to this party though as a couple Barry K came in the mail recently.

But always the future and a 40 or bigger 48  might be used for some 1/2 eyelets.

Thanks for the tip, sure will keep them in mind next

Floyd