felt in hammers

[Farrell]

Del F. wrote:
> Personally I'm not sure the breed of sheep the wool comes from makes all
> that much difference. Once it's off the sheep a lot happens to the stuff.

This sounds like the soundboard counterpart of "we only use Bavarian spruce grown on the northwest side of the mountain from elevations between 3,000 and 5,000 feet that purple headed eagles have chosen to nest in."

Del added:
> A good felt maker can blend wool to just about
> any specification you want. And a misguided hammer maker can screw it up in
> more ways than that. Some of the best sounding hammers I ever pressed were
> from a piece of felt the hammer department rejected as too soft.

And from the way I understand it, someone with the motivation and an appropriate set of skills, could make a fairly acceptable soundboard out of Douglas Fir.

Terry Farrell