Whacking

Kent Swafford kswafford@earthlink.net
Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:31:31 -0600


on 2/17/01 12:56 PM, romanop@attglobal.net at romanop@attglobal.net wrote:

> David,
> Michael Travis has developed a jig that is made of PVC tubing. One piece is
> cut at the bottom and flared so that it fits nicely over the key. Then a
> slightly smaller tube fitted with the eight ounce weight and padded with a
> rubber mute large end down fits inside the first.

For the record, you are describing the test blow device that was developed
by Ward Guthrie. Ward made so many of these, the one Michael has was
probable made by Ward himself.

Kent Swafford



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