NEWOCTAVE GLOBAL Tuning hammers....

[Avery]

Steve,

I've "been there, done that", as they say. It's sometimes amazing how 
much money one sometimes spends
trying to "save" money when it would be much better to just save up 
and get the good stuff to start
with! :-)

Avery Todd
University of Houston

At 05:03 PM 6/28/2006, you wrote:
>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