Dale: What a delight to hear from you; you know, just seeing you at meetings randomly when we're both teaching and not able to get to each other's classes isn't enough. There's so much expertise and kindly opinion available throughout the org. and outside it also, that this medium, carefully tended, can be a godsend. Anyway, back to Ronsen. I've been using Ronsen on non-SW for years and going through all of the vagaries of their manufacture and scratching my head, and cursing at times as the changes seemed to go extreme, but I am excited to hear from you that you are discovering such quality and consistency in them. Being an inertial type of guy, it will take a lot to get me off of dead center with SW hammers which I've been using happily for years with great success and not too much trouble. The one thing I think I'm sensing, and have for years, about SW hammers, is folks don't spend enough time at the outset shaping these hammers before dosing them. Properly shaped, they begin to sing in a low range which gives the technician directions about where to go with chemicals. Without the shaping, all kinds of horrible things are done to them--lots of overdosing and misuse of chemicals. So I don't know when I'll take a breath and try Ronsens on a SW. One hears from other very respectable sources about Abel, and from others about others. Some are believable and some are not. But I certainly appreciate your pleasure in your success with them. Boy, that statement reminds me of the kid in "A Thousand Clown" when he first meets the clown and says, "Why, imagine my delight!" I mean it, Dale, your opinion and thoughtfulness are important. Thanks again. Paul ps Fax is 312/666-7488 (during business hours only, best in the afternoon)
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