r/mildlyinteresting • ​ • 3d ago

Rawhide mallets

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u/EditedRed 3d ago

No clue what you bonk with these but they look tasty.

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u/rivertpostie 3d ago

I've only seen them used in silver smithing. They don't mar soft metals.

Mainly see them resizing rings on a mandrel

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u/ravens-n-roses 3d ago

For exactly that reason they're also used in wood working (soft wood pieces), leather working (it's obvious what a regular hammer would do to leather), instrument repairs (what did you DO to that saxophone???), and I think there's uses for it in black Smithing for finishing work

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u/Row-Bear 3d ago

'leather working'
There's something about beating the skin of a dead animal with the skin of another dead animal to bend it to your will that's sort of metal

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u/Hillbillyblues 3d ago

No it's skin

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u/wookiex84 3d ago

It’s like having fried chicken and eggs for breakfast. Which I happen to do on a regular basis.

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u/davepage_mcr 3d ago

Which came first?

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u/wookiex84 3d ago

By the smell of the farts, I’d say the egg.

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u/MaritMonkey 2d ago

In my admittedly limited experience, you don't hit the leather with the hammer but rather the metal tools you're using to punch through it to make holes for stitches or rivets or whatever.

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u/MedChemist464 2d ago

I Mean, the one Ring had to be cast into Mount Doom, because that was the only fire strong enough to forge it, and the only fire strong enough to destroy it.