Rustic Hardwood Mallet - $20 All mallets are solid hardwood which has been debarked, sanded smooth & finished with a coating of linseed oil. Heads are made from either hard maple or hop-hornbeam (commonly called ironwood).  Each maple stick handle has a knobby part at the end for good grip & a drilled hanger hole. With this mallet you score the trifecta of uses:  it can be used in your shop all day long, then at the dinner table for your regular crab or lobster feast and finally as your official gavel when you chair the regular meeting of the Loyal Order of Water Buffalo. What other tool has such versatility? Click here to see specialty mallets.