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$89 for a round maul is a bit much right now.

The 1/4" small diameter stamps will destroy my home made hard maple woodworking maul turned on my wood lathe. No way.

Will a brass hammer damage or mushroom the tops of the overpriced name brand imported 1/4" tooling stamps ?

I also own a 2lb garland split head mallet that needs inserts which inserts would be best ?

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Brass hammer will flake occasionally. Rawhide inserts for the split head, although for any serious tooling, it will be tiring.

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$89 for a round maul is a bit much right now.

The 1/4" small diameter stamps will destroy my home made hard maple woodworking maul turned on my wood lathe. No way.

Will a brass hammer damage or mushroom the tops of the overpriced name brand imported 1/4" tooling stamps ?

I also own a 2lb garland split head mallet that needs inserts which inserts would be best ?

For heaven's sakes pilgrim, make yourself a strop!

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If you do not go with a poly maul get a dead blow plastic hammer from Harbor Freight. About $5 and they work good. When I am basketstamping I use it instead of my poly maul because of the less amount of bounce.

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Aaron is right! Poly hammer! Cheap and won't destroy the tops of your stamp handles like brass will!

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If you want to use your wooden mauls you could get some rawhide and wrap it around your maul so that the rawhide will take the abuse from tooling instead of the wood. If you find any pictures about striking sticks you'll see that they mostly have the heads wrapped in rawhide. After a while the rawhide will start to flake off and crack but you could simply replace it.

Just a thought.

Damon

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go to www.amazon.com and type in wood working mallets in the search bar you might find something suitable. that is where I got my maul.

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what good is your hand made maul, if you cannot use it. What the hell did you make it for? It's a tool, and yes it will take a beating. That's what it's for. It's not to "JUST LOOK NICE AND SET ON THE MANTLE" Use it.

Or make it a 'WORK DE ART' and keep it pristene condition and look for another, "less gentile tool" to use.

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I've used a brass hammer on all my riveting (copper and rapid rivets) and setting tools every day for the last six years. Never had any trouble with burring the tool heads. Eventually the ends of the hammer get burred then the head is removed and spun in the lathe. Due to the weight of the head I wouldnt use it for stamping as it would probably send the stamp clean through the leather but it definately wouldnt burr the tool ends.

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Why can't a leather or rawhide face be applied to a metal hammer to protect the stamp?

Just curious..

Jake

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