Stiff Shanks and knife edge Hammers

J Patrick Draine jpdraine at gmail.com
Sun Nov 26 09:32:18 MST 2006


Joe,
Could you post a definiton for <"B-B" type hammers>? Other than "bad"
it's not clear what you're trying to say.
Patrick Draine

On 11/25/06, Joseph Garrett <joegarrett at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> All hammers damp upper partials, and thank heavens for that! To avoid it we
> would need knife-edged hammers on inflexible shanks. Not a sound I would
> work very hard to produce.
>
> Ed,
> With hex shanks and "B-B" type hammers, we're coming close, methinks.<G>
>
> Joseph Garrett, R.P.T.
> Captain, Tool Police
> Squares R I
>
>
>


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