Lately, I’ve been thinking, “Why not grab some of this internet sponsorship cash?” And so we have taken on a sponsor – the Malodorous Rubber Mallet Co. I’ve agreed to use the company’s mallets in social media photos and will be impartially reviewing the mallet against all other mallets ever made in this dimension (and others) in the coming weeks.
All I can say at this point is that this mallet is so good that you can smell it coming. It offers the Perfume of Percussion. The Whiff of Whacking. The Bouquet of Beating.
I always like it when this Chris arrives on the scene.
I heard a rumour that this is the Chris that hosts the bench building classes. Win, win.
Okay, what have you been smoking. No judgement, confession is good for the soul…….so my wife tells me.
Sell out! What next…Powdermilk Biscuits!?
or Ketchup?
You missed April 1 by a month. Close, but no… joint?
April 1 is for amateurs.
Sniff, sniff. What’s that smell?
Do I smell a sticker coming?
Mmm, off-gassing petroleum distillates, the sign of a true maker.
So when will it be available on your website? I want the big, stinky one…
$3 at Home Depot!
That made me laugh! I have a rubber mallet that I bought at “The Harbor”—It reeks! Every time I walk past the tool box it’s in, I think to myself “how could that thing stink so bad for so long?”
I have the exact same mallet! 15 years, and the smell is still going strong. Must be the special molecular chinesium they add to the rubber.
I bought one too! I needed a big 4 pound dead blow, so bought the orange one at HF. I put it in the car, made a quick stop at another store, and when I returned, the car smelled to high heaven. I left that mallet outdoors for most of the winter, and the smell is finally gone.
a noxious knock for every kinetic persuasion occasion
I hear they’re reekin’ good!
Chris, you do make me laugh out loud…which is nice! HAHAHA!
Ode de ficus elastica…
Do you think you would be able to talk you new sponsor into allowing you to make a sticker out of the above logo/ad? It would be awesome.
Looks like a t-shirt to me.
Fancy logo on the front with those quotes across the shoulders on the rear.
“The Whiff of Whacking. The Bouquet of Beating.” Smelled that a lot when I taught 7th and 8th grade boys…
Sticker and a T-shirt, please.
I want the sticker!
I want this sticker!
I vote for the first LAP scratch-and-sniff sticker.
Well played, dear sir, well played.
Sponsorship, tools, and clothing are all well and good, but social media is where the real money is. You should start LAPdate as a social media destination.
The mallet in the picture is a buffalo hide mallet.
Obviously MRM Inc’s engraver couldn’t take the smell of the real rubber McCoy.
Danny
What else can this mallet do? At a minimum it also has laser levels, right? A tool must have at least two or three functions to be useful. Also it should come painted in a very particular red, otherwise it just wouldn’t look right on my pegboard where all my other tools of that particular red reside.
+1 sticker
What the heck kind of rubber mallets are you using? 🙂 I know the black deadblow mallets smell awful (I bought an orange one by tekton and it didn’t smell, neither did my friend’s really no-name orange one) no matter where you get them from.
But the white rubber mallets that Chris hates have never smelt in my experience. Do the black ones smell worse?
He who helt (held) it, dealt it? Or is that another kind of manly impact?
Look like a ferret. Smell like a clown.
Malodorous Rubber Mallet was the first tool I ever loved! Apparently when I was <2 years old I learned to open the fridge, grab a can of beer, and walk around the house with it. My dad learned that if he kept an MRM near the couch he could trade me for the beer. Where do I sign up for the sticker and (hopefully odorless) t-shirt value pack?
Kewl. A mate for my Snap-on mallet. Looks like comparison time…
I see a flood of new sponsors and stickers.
Next up:
Wide Kerf Saw Co. With specially bent teeth to maximize dust and minimize pinch.
I will pass. I have my heart set on a lump hammer. 🙂
We may now be out of those drafty old caves, but this is clear proof we’re still working on our clubs.
If it REALLY did smell like a ferret, you could make a comfortable living in selling them for getting rid of rats and mice, who can’t stand the smell, largely because ferrets are natural predators of rodents. One ferret can be enough to clear a warehouse of rats in an hour or so, just don’t stand too close or you will be swarmed by panic stricken rodentia.