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How to Make Abraham Lincoln's Mysterious Dovetail Mallet
It was designed so that the head would never loosen
Chris Schoenberg of the Third Coast Craftsman recently set out to recreate Abraham Lincoln's "impossible" mallet and captured the tricky but satisfying process in a detailed video for your viewing pleasure.
"Legend has it that Abraham Lincoln designed this way back in the day because he wanted to come up with a way to make a mallet that would never loosen or slide off the handle," Schoenberg explains. "The problem is that the tapered dovetails also make it impossible to put that mallet on the handle, so there's some trickery to it."
Without documentation of the fabled original, Schoenberg based his build on a rendition by woodworker Roy Underhill. Check it out below.
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Does anyone know what the bench fixture he is using? when doing this cut is called? https://www.dropbox.com/s/8gn40vg5h66l88v/Screenshot%202020-01-15%2010.07.28.png?dl=0
I also use japanese style "pull" saws and there's as much material around work holding methods on benches with that style of saw. Additional resources on work holding for these style saws are appreciated as well.
Rad video. Big Lincoln fan. Thanks from the REAL third coast (the Gulf of Mexico of course!)
Awesome work of course!