The Legacy on making a caulking mallet

[JFC]

Ok its Sunday and i was bored so i nipped down to my mates boat to see how hes getting on with the replanking . Hes ready to caulk up the planks and showed me a caulking mallet that he borrowed , he wanted his own but £160 :shock:
To the workshop .......
Milling the mallet head took around 10-15 minuets including set up . This included picking the stock cutting to size centering , milling and then taking off the aris .
Milling the handle took around 20-25 minuets from picking the stock . The rope mould took less than five minuets .

Cool innit :lol:
P.S is the image to big ?

 

[DaveL]

Good job, not sure that I like the style of mallet, but then if thats what a caulking mallet looks like, who I am to argue? :roll:

So how much did you charge him? :twisted:

Picture size is OK, any bigger makes the screen scroll sideways and that drives me nuts. ](*,) You could reduce the file size a bit more by increasing the compression, helps those on damp string. [-o<

 

[JFC]

Yup thats what a caulking mallet looks like , this is the bigger 15" one as he already had the 9" one .
The cost , well hes a mate and i was playing around so we had a beer and im sure ill be invited on the many sailing trips we have planned .

 

[Anonymous]

Make it a bit longer stick a leather grip on it and you could sell those at Windsor polo park for £500.

 

[wizer]

go on, what's a caulking mallet used for.. ?

 

[Roger]

For caulking :shock:

It stops all that wet stuff coming in the holes between the wood bits and making you take real quick doggy paddle lessons :wink:

 

[JFC]

Its used for knocking in caulking :lol:
On wooden boats , after they have planked the frames/ ribs they fill the gaps with caulking / string/rope . When the boat is dropped into the water the timber swells and traps the caulking between the planks leaving it water tight .

 

[Alf]

Funny, you can go years between mentions of caulking and this is the second today...

Slightly more accurately I believe it's used for hitting the caulking iron that knocks in the oakum or whathaveyou... Got one somewhere; and some irons.

Cheers, Alf

 

[JFC]

Yup for striking the irons after youve (hammer) it in there :lol:
Wanna sell the irons Alf ? My friend would be over the moon if he had his own .

 

[houtslager]

You've missed out the slots in the mallet head,your friend is going to have
a sore pair of wrists / arms after doing a plank or two.
Also, the heads need banding,preferable with iron hoops.
When I get home, I'll try to dig my mallet and post a pic or 2.

Hope your mate has big arms


HS on a weekend pass to Adam

 

[JFC]

The holes and slots where noticed after i had made it as i only had a glance at the original mallet .

 

[Alf]

Wanna sell the irons Alf ? My friend would be over the moon if he had his own .

'Fraid not. They're a sort of visible promise to myself that one day I'm going to find the Tuit to make a boat.

Cheers, Alf

 

[Adam]

'Fraid not. They're a sort of visible promise to myself that one day I'm going to find the Tuit to make a boat. Cheers, Alf

You heard it here first folks!!! ALFs making a boat everyone! I'll stay tuned on the blog to see how the progress is going :wink: :wink: :lol:

Adam

 

[Lord Nibbo]

Wanna sell the irons Alf ? My friend would be over the moon if he had his own .

'Fraid not. They're a sort of visible promise to myself that one day I'm going to find the Tuit to make a boat.

Cheers, Alf

Alf don't do it!!!!!!
I built my first two boats both 28' and both took two years to complete with never any spare time to do anything else. So to compromise building another I built this model

Scratch built but buxxer me if it didn't take two years to build, mind you it was cheap as far as buying timber was concerned. :lol: just to add some info to the model, the rigging took me six months as did putting on all the copper plates on the hull up to the water line that bit was the most boring job I've ever done. :?

 

[dedee]

'Fraid not. They're a sort of visible promise to myself that one day I'm going to find the Tuit to make a boat. Cheers, Alf

You heard it here first folks!!! ALFs making a boat everyone! I'll stay tuned on the blog to see how the progress is going :wink: :wink: :lol:

Adam

Will that be before or after the tamboored tool cabinet :lol:

Come on Alf get a move on :lol: :lol:

Andy

 

[Alf]

Ha ha. Very funny. :roll: If you actually read what I said you'll find it's subject to the caveats of "one day" and "find the Tuit" - Blogs will probably be obsolete long before then...

Thinking about it, probably so will boats...

Super model, yer lordship. =D> I'd love to say something intelligent like "ah ha, a three masted tops'l schooner if I'm any judge" but I'd be fooling no-one. Especially as she's fully ship-rigged I think? 8-[ S'not the Cutty Sark is it?

Cheers, Alf

 

[Lord Nibbo]

I'd love to say something intelligent like "ah ha, a three masted tops'l schooner if I'm any judge" but I'd be fooling no-one. Especially as she's fully ship-rigged I think? 8-[ S'not the Cutty Sark is it?

Cheers, Alf

Change schooner to clipper and you win a prize. Yes it is Cutty Sark.