<HTML>In a message dated 9/29/03 7:51:39 PM Central Daylight= Time, kswafford@earthlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Don't try to make this into a m= ystery, Wim. It isn't. I read Ed's post rather differently than you. I'm not as nice as Ed, so I'll go ahead and suggest that he was gently telling you that on those 3 notes you do not have  tails with the proper radius and/or backchecks= that are properly angled; if you did, they would work properly. This is a not an uncommon problem. You ask, "Why would one key/hammer work perfectly, and the next one, with all the same characteristics, not?" Obviously, they do not in reality have the same characteristics. Keep looking. Kent </BLOCKQUOTE> I've shaped the tails, rough them up, and eliminated the cutting edge at the= bottom. I've adjusted the back checks up, down, in and out. Now what? Wim </HTML>