how do you hold your mallet?

[Tinkerton]

Random question I was pondering over while practicing beveling; Which had does everyone hold their mallet/maul in: your dominant or weaker hand?

[Bayou Bengal]

I’ve never even considered holding it in my weak hand.  Now I want to try it 

[Rockoboy]

9 minutes ago, Tinkerton said:

dominant or weaker hand?

Always my dominant hand. I get more control that way, and I need all the control (or assistance) I can get.

[Handstitched]

I am right handed, so naturally I use my mallet in my right hand with any tools in my left. I also hold my mallet handle   close to the mallet hitty  bit, not at the other end. My mallet is a small  rubber mallet, with a few bits of  round leather glued to the round  ' hitty bit' .It   came from a kids tool kit from a discount shop so its just the right  size & weight. I have another rubber mallet thats bigger & heavier for bigger tools ,  stamps, like 3D etc.  

I reject normality  and make up my own   

HS

[bermudahwin]

1 hour ago, Handstitched said:

the mallet hitty  bit,

I understand this is known as the "Hitty Lumpy Bit" as opposed to the "Holdy Stick Bit" to avoid confusion

Years back my Father-In-Law gifted me for Christmas a 13 lb Lump Hammer, to make it easier to punch holes in leather. Needless to say he was not a leatherworker, and it came it real handy with a cold chisel for masonry work.

Edited July 1, 2019 by hwinbermuda

[zuludog]

Here's a chance to learn some British slang

Birmingham is one of the main engineering centres of Britain. In the local dialect it is distorted and pronounced 'Brummajem'

Thus a hammer, especially an engineer's ball pein hammer, is known as a Brummajem Screwdriver

 

I don't do any tooling or stamping, I only use my mallet for stitching chisels, flattening finished stitches and occasionally a hole punch. Almost always in my right, dominant, hand

It's a hide mallet I got from a craft shop; just weighed it on my kitchen scales = 538g. I usually hold it somewhere between the middle & end of the Holdy Sticky Bit

I'm thinking of fixing a disc of hardwood on the ends of the Hitty Bit to prevent too much wear on the hide

Edited July 1, 2019 by zuludog

[fredk]

A. mostly in my almost dominant right hand

B, we used to call a hammer a Manchester screwdriver and a sledge hammer a London screwdriver

[bermudahwin]

Slight muckiness warning...

My brother the Diesel Mechanic never called a ball pein hammer anything that was not a dire threat...

BALL PAIN hammer.

And if helping him he'd always answer the question "would you like a screw driver?" with "No thanks I'm ten minutes late already"

[zuludog]

I come from Manchester, and I haven't heard of a hammer being called a Manchester Screwdriver, but it's possible of course. No doubt these names date from the time when British Engineering ruled the world

I've heard of a sledge hammer being called a 'Persuader'

[fredk]

36 minutes ago, zuludog said:

I come from Manchester, and I haven't heard of a hammer being called a Manchester Screwdriver,. . .

yeah but . . . . yeah but . . . .  yeah but  . . . . . as a Manchesterite you'd not, but in Ulster ~~