Mallets

Need a mallet to carve wood, stone with your chisels, or to adjust tiles?

On ManoMano, you will find more than one cheap and quality mallet! Rubber mallets, wooden carpenter's mallets, ball-peen mallets, you are sure to find the ideal mallet in our catalog, which offers reliable brands such as STANLEY.

The mallet is an impact tool of the same dimensions as a hammer or a sledgehammer. However, the material of the mallet head differentiates it from these other tools: while the heads of hammers or sledgehammers are made of very rigid material (special steels), the mallet head is made of wood, rubber, plastic, or even hundreds of small balls. The material constituting its head is softer.

The mallet is traditionally used in conjunction with wood chisels, gouges, or mortising chisels to work wood, but also with stone chisels to sculpt rocks.

It can also be used alone, to strike rigid but fragile surfaces such as tiles to adjust and fit them without the risk of breaking them.

This is the main advantage of the mallet: it offers a significant striking force, but the particular material of its head allows it to absorb shock waves that disrupt the accuracy of the handyman's movement.

There are several types of mallets:

The carpenter's mallet has a wooden head (often beechwood) with a parallelepipedal shape for a larger striking surface, whose top side is slightly convex.

The sculptor's mallet is also traditionally made of wood but increasingly of rubber and has an inverted cone shape to maintain the same striking power regardless of the tool's point of impact.

The most used mallet in DIY has a cylindrical head often made of rubber. The handle is fixed in the middle of the head, perpendicular to it.

You now know everything about mallets. Like Thor or Hephaestus, who made this ancestral tool their preferred accessory, you too can proclaim yourself the god of... DIY! With ManoMano's mallets, may your will be done, on stone as on wood.