boring hammers

[John Delacour]

At 23:35 +0200 24/4/08, StŽphane Collin wrote:

>... How do you set up your boring jig in order to make sure that the 
>hammer molding is perpendicular to the shank (that is, if you aim 
>for that) ?  The molding doesn't seem to have any parallel sides...,
>
>I read John D comment about the hammer shank length being fixed by design
>and so tweaking the hammer rake in order to get the perpendicular to string
>hit (if I got that right, John).

I send several messages to the list around mid-January under the topics

"glue for hammers"
"Pictures of Boring Machine      [was glue for hammers]"

including pictures of the machine I use.

Did you read them?

JD