This is my bathroom floor before putting on the natural wood oil recipe I made - the wood is kiln dried hickory planks that were locally milled and deeply on sale...
If ya need the wood oil recipe, click HERE for Part 1 I posted earlier today---> cause this now is Part 2, and all it is about is my extreme excitement and OCD about how I could not stop putting this amazing wood oil mixture on everything in my house! I couldn't stop cause not only did it smell delicious but it also looked beautiful (I mean, don't oily wet lookin' floors always look so good?!)
Armed with a pot of the natural wood oil and a organic cotton rag I was ready to start rubbing it in. During this process I thought possibly one of those sponge mops would be alot quicker, and at least a good buffer for after the oil is put on....But I did this by hand, totally Mr Miyagi style "wax on wax off danial son!"
In my bathroom I laid it on extra thick and waxy because I didn't want the water from the tub or sink to penetrate the floor - you can see in the pic below the difference between the finished wood and the unfinished dry wood. The oil brings out all the wood's character, grain and color, artistically speaking just that look is worth all the effort.
Once I got finished the bathroom, I was on a roll! I put on some more of the mixture to be heated up (walnut oil, salt, bees wax, apple cider vinegar) and then It WaS ON !!!
I went right out the bathroom 'door' (i haven't got around to putting up my door yet), and proceeded to oil the kitchen floor too.
Then the OCD my mother instilled in me (AKA- don't ever quit in the middle of a project or activity) kept me going right out into my living room...
And going......... (like, who could stop when it's looking that good and the fear of it drying totally uneven kinda haunts your inner wanna be perfectionist!)
Eventually I made it across the entire house and let myself off the hook, to do my bedroom tomorrow instead. The hardest part of this project was moving stuff on the floor outta the way and the thought of moving the sofa I sleep on made me rather go cook dinna' instead.The oiling part, though = majorly fun to watch, a little like magic. ;)
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Then using an axe to split the wood, he hit the back of it with a rock (you can use a hammer but the metal on metal sound is sick). This is done on the longer part of the log & on all four sides to create the shape of the handle. As seen below, the woods splits down to the circular saw mark made.
He continued this step all the way around till the handle of the mallet was approximately the desired grip size.
Then using a tool I can't remember the name of (so someone help me in the comments section) the mallet handle was smoothed down and given a more rounded shape, making it much easier to hold.
The last carving step is to repeat the axe and rock splitting on the short heavy end of the log, creating a square shaped head for cave man quality whacking! After finishing his, 
