[TheForge] hammer handle sizing

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

CJM
Generally, i find I'm most comfortable with a handle just large enough 
that my wrapped fingers don't touch  my hand coming  round full circle. 
I tend to like a larger diameter handle than most folks, on small to 
medium sized hammers because of the extra control it affords. Padding 
seems to make moving one's grip quickly more difficult........Pete

Andrew Vida wrote:

>Catherine Jo Morgan wrote:
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>>I keep reading that if you want to prevent elbow problems, it's better
>>to err in the direction of too large a handle rather than too small. But
>>of course the sources are talking about tennis racquet handles. What do
>>you think about hammer handles? I have my most used ones pretty well
>>padded, which makes them on the large side.
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>	I dunno about tennis raquets, but I would definitely say that
>	at least for me, too small is vastly preferable to too large.
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