How To Make A Mallet

I made this homemade Mallet for the Wood By Wright Hand Tool Build Off 2016 And Mitch Peacocks Tool Make 16 . Tool Make launch video It was my first time attempting to build a mallet so I tried to do something a bit different by adding some veneers between the different sections at glue up, it was very hard to keep all the pieces aligned and some moved during clamping so I had to trim the mallet to make it square when the glue had main mistake I made was with the dowels I have no drill press so they are