[TheForge] uri hammer- wrist snap?

[Daniel Crowther]

It really depends on WHY you're choking up the handle.  Need more 
control, fine.  Can't handle the weight, switch to a lighter hammer.  
For beginners it's usually the latter.

Dan Crowther
Pan Celtic Forums http://celticforum.oakandacorn.com

Dan Tull wrote:

> St. Fransis of Aspen once put barbed wire near the head to stop a 
> student from choking up
> on the handle.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Childers" <munlaw2 at hcsmail.com>
> To: "'Sponsored by ABANA'" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> 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..
>>
>
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