Fred, Somehow I missed this part of the thread. I understand the squaring thing from the Shigeru tech up to the point of what Ed suggested. Could you or he elaborate on the "every other hammer" thing? I'm not doing much of this anymore since I retired from U of H, but who knows. <grin> Thanks. Avery Todd On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote: > Then I learned from Takitori Itake of Shigeru Kawai the notion of > centering them when they were raised, dropping them back down to decide on > burning direction if needed. That was a great improvement, much more > intuitive and no need to re-center. I taught that method last summer in a > class at Las Vegas, and afterward Ed Sutton told me I should do every other > hammer in a mass production procedure. And that way is both more efficient > and I get more reliable results, as I just do one thing at a time and can > get into more of a groove; also can look back at a whole section and see > anything that wasn't quite exact, before moving on. > In any case, I vastly prefer this to the more commonly described > method of raising each hammer and watching its sides compared to its > neighbors, watching the gap change or not. That works to a degree, but is > slower and with sloppier and less reliable results. > > Regards, > Fred Sturm > fssturm at unm.edu > "Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them." Coco > Chanel > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110213/04f9f3f6/attachment.htm>
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