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neat video, thanks for sharing. Its cool when a tool kit consists mainly of various axes. my favorite part was when he starts wailing on the log with that comically large wooden hammer. Its totally just a big tree round with a handle on it, like out of an old cartoon.
 
It is an almost comical looking mallet since it is not typical but it's also more or less disposable and easily made from material at hand with minimal fuss. For carpentry in fact an almost essential tool not to mention handy for other work like setting posts where it does much less damage to the tops. Well, personally, as much as I never look forward to using mine I am always glad to have one. There are no alternatives when it's called for that don't risk much damage to the work, easily avoided with such a mallet, or comandante, as SP puts it..
 
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One of the best videos I have seen for all historic aspects of log structure construction. The commander, or the slightly smaller beetle, is actually a very essential tool in a log, timber framer, or building restoration carpenters tool kit. It is used, not only to assemble corner joints, but mortise and tenon joints. etc. It also makes moving sticks into place, in small increments, a snap. In restoration work, I used it to snake replacement sill plates under standing structures. Mine have osage heads and American Hickory hafts.
 
crbnSteeladdict said:
Are they flat like wedge pattern on have slight high center line?
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I just happened to've come across this resource:https://imgur.com/gallery/ypxL1am
(no clue who or what,just stumbled across it on web search).

Ernest would know better if some of these are close to patterns shown on video,i do think a couple of them are.
As can be seen in closeups some do have a degree of convexity...I don't have nowhere near enough knowledge of these to make Any generalizations.
 
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