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I am adding these carpenters mallets to the caulking mallet listing. These are a genuine English beech carpenters mallet which to save you some money they can be used for caulking cotton. I shall continue, of course, with the Traditional Caulking Mallet but these at £20 plus VAT are very good value. So now you have a second choice.
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£25.00 plus vat |
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Caulking Mallets
Listed below are three. Mainly they were turned in Lignum Vitae which was no problem to obtain when we as a nation had an empire. Today it is a "farmed" wood in that only limbs of the tree are harvested instead of the whole tree. Sensible conservation when you think about it. However there is a price to pay. Lignum is sold by Kilo weight not Cube and is now expensive. The timber we use today is Lignum Vitae. Remember these mallets were made by the shipwrights themselves and there are many designs.
The traditional mallet had a head about 14 or 15 inches from side to side. The reason for this was that years ago with no cranes or marina lifts if caulking was done it was done whilst hauling over the vessel on her side to clean all the old weed off first. You needed a mallet with a long reach for the garboards etc as sometimes there was so little room to work.
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I have been asked to make a smaller mallet for caulking cotton. You do not always need a full length Standard mallet and this chap is 8 inches across the head. It's a lovely mallet, nice balance etc and has around three sixteenths protruding beyond the metal bands, which are now made in AB-2 nickel bronze, ready to burr over. The stale or handle is ash and the head we make in Lignum Vitae.
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Small Mallet made in Lignum Vitae - £99.00 plus vat |
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Now made in Lignum Vitae only.
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Standard Caulking Mallet Lignum - £129.00 plus vat |
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I have bought some EBONY. Now this is from a very near relative to Lignum. Shall be turning these Black Mallets in Standard and small ones to offer a different choice. Just wait until you see these lovely polished black mallets with AB2 nickle Bronze rings on. They look superb but will be slightly more expensive than lignum. More shortly including photos.
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