Show me your used mallets and mauls so I can purchase wisely.

[Sanch]

It sounds like you may be just doing geometric stamping if that's the case just get a mallet or make one out of delrin.  I make my own mauls and delrin is my choice material but I do use them for basket weave stuff as well for my makers mark I use a dead blow hammer (plastic type) no bounce or stutter of my mark. my .02 cents 

[Wulfing]

1 hour ago, slipangle said:

Wulfing,

While I don't do any tooling to speak of, and only stamp now and again,  I've wondered about those mauls with plastic, (nylon?  Delrin?) heads. Do any of you that use them experience the head sliding off the stamp,  what with being a cylindrical shape made of slippery material? Or maybe it's a non-issue...as I'm mainly punching holes, and I know doing stamps requires, or should, a couple of light taps at most.

I have a couple of rawhide mallets that I like,  but the rolled variety,  where you're striking with the flat end of the cylinder. Makes good contact but those mallets, even in the larger sizes, are not that heavy.   I've been tempted to make a maul in laminated, or stacked leather rings.  Just to see if I could do it. And I love to make tools. 

Basically I make belts but hope to do other stuff in the near future. I use that nylon mallet to create borders with stamping tools, to bevel cut lines and set rivets / snaps. For l the hole making and heavier stuff I use my new arbour press rather than hitting tools with a bigger mallet. as to your question My nylon mallet has never moved or slipped off. I like it as its top heavy so feels good for stamping.