Baldwin Gauge?

Avery Todd avery1@houston.rr.com
Mon, 04 Jul 2005 07:18:24 -0500


Me too and I've had them so long, I can't remember what the different 
uses are for them unless it's what David S. posted. So I guess that 
means the smaller one pictured is for that and the larger one is for 
the hammers? The small one is the one I use for aligning the knuckles.

Avery

At 05:40 AM 7/4/05, you wrote:
>At 23:21 7/3/2005, you wrote:
>>It is a convention give-away tool used to determine whether or not 
>>a hammerhead is square to the hammershank. Simply lay the short, 
>>bent over part on top of the hammershank, move it so that the long, 
>>narrow part runs along the hammerhead molding and see that the 
>>hammerhead is square to the shank.
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>>When replacing hammers it is used to draw a line along the 
>>centerline of the original hammerhead molding on the sample 
>>hammerheads (those left in place to align the new hammerheads to). 
>>This can be quite helpful if the original hammerheads have been 
>>badly mis-shaped over the years.
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>>Del
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>I've got two of them. Different length "vertical" arms.
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