[TheForge] Re: elbow

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Having reshaped a hand with my custom treadle hammer....
find myself wishing we could just make our own replacement parts and get 
on with it...
clank...Pete



Mike Spencer wrote:

>I've been fortunate never to have been hit with these tendon problems
>but I've worried a bit about it from early on because I have a steel
>bolt in my elbow (teen-age hockey) and a somewhat mungled right hand
>(teen-age rocket science).  No missing fingers but two that don't quite
>work right and another with a frozen distal joint.)
>
>My two defensive strategies:
>
>   Avoid a too-heavy hammer, and
>
>   shape all my hammer handles with a draw knife and rasp to what
>   feels like optimal grip.  That means rather flat and slender
>   handles and also a bevel to accomodate the lumpy, frozen
>   middle-finger joint.
>
>- Mike
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