<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Chris This sounds reasonable enough, tho I have to admit I haven't tried a McMorrow configuation since learning Stanwood methods.... now that you mention it that might be fun to try. That said... I think I'll stand on my basic parameters... in full knowledge that these are more representative of my own thinking then anything else.  Still... I think Stanwoods own data points in a similiar direction.  If you take a statistical analysis of a few of his measurements looking at means, averages, confidence intervals and variant degrees... I think you'll find a clear picture that points to a very strong preference center that sits somewhere around a 5.7 SW ratio and 3/4 to top medium SW's.  BW strikes me as being a bit more spread out.... perhaps because even now manufacturers dont seem to get the significance of Stanwoods work.... and the resultant FW's of the various factory methods out there still remain rather chaotic in comparison.   I've only had a few glances at a three or four of Stanwoods graphs of some 1000 (I believe it was) measured instruments.... but I think I am more or less in the ball park in my assessment of these.  David will most certainly correct if I am mistaken. I have heard some of Eds instruments.... and they were nice indeed... but their character would be different with heavier hammers even if you ended up managing to deliver the exact same amount of nett force to the string for equal amounts of nett work from the finger.  I'm not enough of a physics guy to be able to tell you why..... but just so.. Cheers RicB <blockquote> Ric, All you say is on the way as long as we stay focused on the fact that heavier hammers require a lower action Ratio and lighter hammers require a higher one. Hence Ed M's actions worked best with a 15.65mm knuckle. I'm sure you know this I just wanted to extrapolate alittle, maybe even clarify... Chris Solliday</blockquote> </body> </html>