Fitzroy":1yb1z9dl said:It was time to upgrade from my old mallet, the chicken leg mallet as my boys think it looks. It’s a piece of sycamore hacked to a shape that works, for the last two years.
New one is also sycamore but feels a bit nicer in the hand. Not convinced on the leather face as it seems to be marking easily.
Making it was a fun experience with plenty learnt. Building up a joint from pieces enables a very snug fit with ease. I’ve seen plenty of folks on Utube work with a solid lump for the head and cut a through mortice, I’m not convinced mine would meet in the middle! Wedged tenons need some space to work, it was hell to get such narrow wedges in and I amazed they’ve not too many noticeable gaps.
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SammyQ":1o9upxi0 said:Lucky you never encountered the Psychology lecturers who got lumped into the 'Life Sciences' faculty alongside us normal (! yeah, right..) biologists and ecologists. Never seen such a collection of lunar-influenced individuals outside of a specicialist containment ward...Sam.
SammyQ":2c5cydwz said:..... the 'Life Sciences' faculty alongside us normal (! yeah, right..) biologists and ecologists........
paulrockliffe":297skvr2 said:Fitzroy":297skvr2 said:It was time to upgrade from my old mallet, the chicken leg mallet...,
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How did you glue it together?
Glue joints should exceed the strength of the wood around them. If not then something's amiss. Assuming you're not using an exotic species, your glue is good and the wood was freshly prepared it's likely a clamping issue, that seems to be the usual source of failure these days because the myth about starving joints (from too much clamping pressure) continues to persist.paulrockliffe":21n8d2bk said:How did you glue it together? I made one for my brother last Christmas and couldn't get the glue to hold well enough that it wouldn't break in use.
MikeG.":3ga5n9xv said:I don't think so, but I haven't looked it up for a few weeks. There are two sorts of hearth needed for any fire...."constructional" and "forgotten the damn word" . The size of each of them depends on a variety of factors, and is different for free-standing burners compared with ones in a fireplace. I think the upper hearth, the superficial one which I've forgotten the name of, is there to keep any floor covering safe from rolling embers or suchlike (they assume that the door isn't there). I guess the reasoning is that if there is a foot of solid hearth in front of the fire and standing proud of the floor then it would be impossible for someone to come along later and lay a carpet or timber floor within the danger zone. If left as per the photo, the next owner could easily carpet right up to within say 5 or 6 inches of the front of the fire. The constructional hearth is much bigger, being basically a zone of solid floor around the fire with no flammable materials, but it doesn't have to be visually demarcated.
The other measurements to check with this fire is that it stands 6 inches clear of all the walls forming the fireplace. It looks as though it probably does.......just.
Phlebas":2ibr2lhd said:....... is the term you are looking for 'superimposed hearth'?
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