Final product. I do not have a high speed name for this, I will call it: mallet.

Side by side, the old and the new.

Probably my best "joinery" to date. No glue in there, and I am not sure I can get the head off to put glue on it, that sucker is tight.

Disclaimer: I have a lot of potato quality pics here. I discovered near the end that I had set my phone on something and smoodged the camera lens. A quick thumb wipe cleared that up, only took me an hour or so to realize. Sigh.

The kit with my figure model. She's not really what you would call hot, but is certainly naked. The wood on the left is a piece of oak cribbing that was used in power plant construction around the 80s / early 90s. It is old, dry as a bone and heavy af.

Oak, rounded out with my pencil marks.

You can't see shit in this pic. Damnit.

My attempt at multi-axis turning. I have discovered that, at this point in time, I suck at multi-axis turning. Obviously I need to continue to try it.

Handle is maple.

My original intent was to do a multi-axis turn on the handle as well. But I screwed that pooch by turning off the ends too soon - where all of my markings were. Again: damnit. The middle park was where I was going to multi-axis some shit up.

Some assembly required...

Bonus shot of my "turning station." I still have work to do on it, but right now I can roll the lathe in and out of position, the stand has an 8 foot electric cord and a j-box that the lathe plugs into. And the light is wired into the j-box with a switch. I am going to put another drawer under the two in there and a cover across the bottom for holding wood-related crap.