I bought one of these tuning hammers a couple of months ago and paid about $75 for it. :-[ (Blush) It's better than the "student" hammer I replaced. It is pretty rigid if you don't extend it. But it feels like it was built by the Russian military. It lacks good fit and finish. The coarse threaded chuck is hard to work and sticks badly. But that doesn't really matter because the extension isn't rigid enough so I use it fully collapsed. I wish I'd passed it by and saved up for a fine lever. Steve Brooks Rookie tuner -- "In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation." - Alan Greenspan, 1966
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