Simple Tools

My father worked as a machinist and made a number of tools for some of his other related hobbies. Here's a small mallet he made.



He took a standard bolt and machined the handle out of a piece of aluminum, turning the cross-check pattern (knurling) on the main handle that screws onto the original bolt thread. The other end of the bolt he tapped and made the hammer end out of a piece of brass round that screws onto this. I've always admired how my dad adapted an everyday object and made it into a simple tool like this.