Hammered

There's no reason why I needed a mallet. Who needs a wooden hammer? It just seemed like a reasonable project. If I had a place to hang it in the kitchen, it'd be my new smasher for weinerschnitzel, but I've never made that wonderful delicacy, so I'll probably use it to to whack things in the garage. I might just walk around with it and ominously shake it at strangers. If I need a schnitzelwhacker later, then I'll make one especially for the purpose. I didn't realize I wanted to add this to the blog until after I made the handle. Assume there are two other pictures... one should be a square block of cherry on the lathe, and the other should be a handle. The trick with handles is to make them slightly larger than the hole they're going into. If it will fit tightly and permanently in the hole without any glue, then if you add glue, it's stuck forever. You'll have to bang on it to get it to fit. You'll need some sort of wooden mallet so you don't mar the workpiece. Oh, wait.... there's my reason for making it.