[TheForge] uri hammer- wrist snap?

[Dan Tull]

St. Fransis of Aspen once put barbed wire near the head to stop a student 
from choking up
on the handle.

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From: "Ron Childers" <munlaw2 at hcsmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:23 PM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] uri hammer- wrist snap?


> No law against choking up on the handle...There are several of Clark's
> hammers in the shop. Maybe I just haven't mastered the technique, but I
> seldom use them. I watched him demo the technique and he did win the
> "drawing out" contest against much younger and bigger smiths at Madison so
> he must know something- so if any of you younguns feel froggy you better
> think twice before jumping on an old man..
>