>Dale Wrote: <snip> Pressure is pressure but pre pressing removes >resilience as does too much heat. <snip> Dale, I've always felt (no pun intended) that tension in a cold pressed hammer develops resiliency and density at the same time and that this tension is always diminished by hot pressing. Imaging bouncing something off a stretched nylon rope... (nylon being very stretchy). If the rope isn't stretched tightly you can't bounce off it very well... David S
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