Actually I just looked up the hammer weight chart made up by David Stanwood. Assuming you weigh a #1 hammer at 10 grams without a shank attached you are in the lower range of medium power range. You should do a full analysis of this action: Key weight from balance point to 10mm from front end of wood Strike weight from center pin to strike point Wippen weight from center pin to capstan cetner Up weight, down weight for friction and balance weight True key leverage. David Stanwood published the formulas to subject these data to some while back. Go to the archives and retrieve his posts. I hope this gets you started in exploring optimumizing actions. Have a good week. Newton nhunt@jagat.com
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