Ball end tuning hammers

[Greg Newell]

Ron,
    You're nothing if not entertaining. Thanks for keeping us smiling!

Greg Newell

Ron Nossaman wrote:

> Ok, I confess.
>
> It seems I lied to you all about the shank diameter of my elf made tuning
> hammer. It really is 7/16, rather than 1/2". Sorry 'bout that. Rummaging
> through my bin of random rod and bar stock, I had grabbed a piece of
> stainless steel rod salvaged from some large, ugly, obsolete but once
> obscenely expensive piece of data processing equipment. That was after I
> had checked out some mild steel 1/2" stock and decided the 7/16 SS was
> stiffer. Unfortunately, the wrong part of the process stuck to the inside
> left rear quadrant of my alleged brain as a faulty memory of what I had
> finally done. Looking at the thing every day as I used it didn't apparently
> trigger any sort of belated corrective cognitive processes until now
> either. Deeply strange, and I really can't account for it. If I had a
> triple redundant mental reality cross check system, I could internally
> validate veracity before opening mouth widely enough to accept foot - but
> that would seemingly require at least two more brain cells. If that's the
> case, I'm doomed.
>
> It's probably genetic... It's my ancestors' fault - but I still like the
> hammer.
>
> Ron N

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