Carver's Mallet

[forty_caliber]

Turned a carver's mallet from some osage orange that was sent to me by a friend.  OO is known as Bois D'arc in these parts and pronounced BO-DARK in Texan. 

 

 

 

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[Steve Krumanaker]

Nice looking mallet. I'm turning some osage right myself. For as hard and dense as it is, it is a dream to turn.

[forty_caliber]

This is my first experience with it.  Surprisingly orange sawdust.

 

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[John Morris]

That's a good looking mallet! I've never even picked up a piece of Osage Orange. How's the heft?

[forty_caliber]

It's dense and heavy.  10" weighs at least a pound.

 

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[Gerald]

Nice mallet . In my part of LA it is BO DOC , of coarse in the south the french works