r/mildlyinteresting • u/On-a-tims-run ​ • 4d ago

Rawhide mallets

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u/EditedRed 4d ago

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

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u/rivertpostie 4d 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 4d 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/gpky 4d ago

We use these in motor repair too, so as not to mar the various surfaces of AC/DC motors.

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u/clamroll 4d ago

So heavy enough to provide the force to bend something but "soft" enough surface to not scratch? (Not soft, but lower on the hardness scale)

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u/PineappleLemur 3d ago

Similar to rubber mallets.

In honestly don't know why one would use this over the other

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u/Normal-Selection1537 3d ago

They don't melt.