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I've got a champagne cork*, trimmed the part the normally fits inside the neck of the bottle and stuck this in the top of the pole/shaft. First version wobbled all over the place even when firmly taped up (currently just using hocky tape on the grip), so tried again but this time with a long wood screw with a wide flat head through the full length of the cork to make it more rigid and again a couple of layers of tape over the top to secure it. This works fine, looks tidy-ish and the step up from taped pole up to cork gives a natural 'stop' at the end of the mallet so it feels less likely to slip from my hand. I guess it's a few extra grams, but it's not at the business end where it would matter more. It's definitely more comfortable when tripod-ing in goal and as an added bonus I feel less likely to impale a fellow player through my general cack-handedness whilst playing.
(*hey, I made my mallet at Xmas, ok!?!)