Maul Weight?

[Seagrove59]

For tooling, how do you determine what weight maul to use?

Peter

[oltoot]

Personally, 1 lb for most work, 3 lb for shading and geometrics and 8 lb for die cutting and punching

[Seagrove59]

Oltoot, thanks for the reply, why the heavier wt for shading is it because it needs to go deeper. New to this and want to start moving toward tooling.

Peter

[King's X]

For general tooling, I use an 8-10 oz maul.

[Seagrove59]

KingX, so you go 8-6 oz less, why is that your preference, I have seen your blog spot and can see you are turning out nice work.

Thanks for the reply.

Peter