The mallet I made two years ago from firewood logs is returning to its original purpose, splitting after lots of hard use.
Made a new head from green applewood. Heard somewhere it's clever to make the handle from dry and the head from green wood so the head shrinks onto the handle. We'll find out if this works. I suspect it might just crack. Or shrink away from the handle. Time will tell.
Anyways, I can whack stuff again!