[TheForge] Re: elbow

Tue May 6 00:09:00 2003

ouch
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: elbow


> 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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