Will Truitt wrote >Slick, JD. Could you share with us your jig for holding the hammer?< >I'm left-handed. The plane goes upside down in my right hand and I hold the hammer felt with the thumb and the top joint of the third finger, with the index finger at the tail of the moulding, and pull the hammer over the blade. The cost: a little blood if you don't learn quickly! JD< John - That describes exactly my method for tapering the end of for soundboard shims. Putting a boat shape into the end of the shim is easiest this way. I had to laugh when I read this. Thought I was the only one crazy enough to risk slicing my thumb off that way. Chuck Behm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100711/2b9f2d44/attachment.htm>
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