Audrey Karabinus rote, 5/12: <<Raquetball #2: Thought I had saved a posting from the original designer-lady of the test-blow- striking- hand-saver- bouncing- ball-held-in-the-palmtool, (not all the other gadgets you guys use, (grin) dowells, hammers, brass rod fingers + straps, etc) but after considerable searching, I'd have to say not. Does anyone have the description and can re-post or forward so I can rig up my royal blue ball? Thanks!>> Get yourself a bass hammer, and on the band saw, cut an arc into it so that tossing away the tail and bottom portion of the hammer felt, the main body of the hammer (apprx. 1" tall) will mate perfectly with the curvature of the ball. Epoxy the two together. This is the ingenuity of Zen Reinhardt, RPT (Ann Arbor, MI): give her a call and say Hi for me! I further glued a foot of elastic string onto the ball and knotted it so that the portion on the far side of the knot would fit comfortably around my wrist. Now the ball dangles playfully below your wrist while your fingers stretch for the intervals. Come unison time, a flick of the wrist will bring it flying back into your palm. (Sadly, I didn't glue the elastic string ends to the side of the ball away from the hammer, thinking that these glue points would annoy my hand. Now the ball hangs with the hammer pointing up rather than in the needed direction, down.) BTW, I enjoyed reading of your experience in selling a business relocating and starting from scratch. I'd always wondered how selling a customer list worked. Bill Ballard, RPT "She will slap you, she will kiss you, NH Chapt, PTG you will fall in love with her" from a promotional t-shirt for Kendrick rock'n'roll amps. (YUK)
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