A wooden mallet is a hamer made of wood. It is used to hammer a chisel where you do not want to damage the end of the chisel that is being hammered. Carpenters and stone masons frequently use wooden mallets (carpenter's are square and stonemason's are round). Modern wooden mallet can also be made out of dense nylon (but not rubber as it is too bouncy).
A hammeris a tool meant to deliver an impact to an object. The most common uses are for driving nails, fitting parts, forging metal and breaking up objects.
A mallet is a type of wooden hammer used to drive chisels or tap wooden joints together etc. It is used where a metal hammer would cause damage. It is not used to drive nails etc.
Useful for use with leathering tools, and smaller wood chisels.
knocking in tent pegs
to hit things
for wood work
you can use the tinman mallet to flatten safety edges like a dresser.
A mallet is a large hammer usually made of a hardwood. It has specialised uses in some industries.
palette mallet
For applying force on something you don't want to mark.
The mallet is a gavel and he hits it against a block of wood called a sound block.
The judge uses a gavel to quiet the courtroom. It is a wooden mallet that is usually struck against a sound block to get everyone's attention.
The examiner uses a rubber mallet to strike different points on the patient's body, and observes the response.
The mallet symbolizes power.
A mallet
Bernard Mallet has written: 'Mallet du Pan and the French revolution'
In Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland the Red Queen uses a flamingo as a croquet mallet.However, the Red Queen doesn't actually appear in the original book or in Disney's 1951 animated adaptation. In those versions it is the Queen of Hearts who uses a flamingo as a croquet mallet.
Robert Mallet-Stevens has written: 'Robert Mallet-Stevens' -- subject(s): Architecture, Exhibitions 'Rob Mallet-Stevens architetto'