Vise Grips voicing is not a vice

Jenneetah yardbird@vermontel.net
Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:31:22 -0400


At 11:58 AM -0400 7/27/04, Alpha88x@aol.com wrote:
>Can you use water and alchohol or fabric softener to soften hammers?

Yep. Check the archives

At 12:01 PM -0400 7/27/04, Alpha88x@aol.com wrote:
>This makes really good sense to me!  The idea is to fluff up the 
>felt, work it.

I imagine it like massaging a knot out of a cramped muscle. The 
person who showed it to me said that the legendary Franz Mohr would 
achieve subtle effects, just pulling his thumbnail across the hammer 
crown. With any of this stuff, all you need as a pair of ears.

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