Hi Brian I believe there might be one major step and oversight that I ,Yourself and many others have made at the beginning of any chickering action rebuild And that is to weigh the original hammers and get over the shock of how incredibly light they are. And then after checking your gram scale a time or two for accuuacy it is realized it was right . The hmmrs. had to be light for the leverages that were chosen and when the're set up as designed they work well and if not well you're expieriencing that tooo heavy feel . If you can't get the hammer wt. down a slight change in the knuckle placement will get you there but will change the reg. requirements slightly. I have used the ronsen 14 lb. saepele molding and taperes as Newton suggested from strike pt. to tail and also recove or cove to reduce wt. further. Your current options are as stated ( reducing wt.if possible) or starting over uugghhh Good Luck Dale Erwin
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