<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>  <FONT size=3> </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>   Thanks Don</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3> I tried them 30 Years ago. How flush will they cut= &  is it a clean cut?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>    Dale</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>Hi Dale,<BR><BR>Have you tried "dog toe nail clippers"? Look at Walmart.<BR><BR>At 08:29 PM 17/12/2004 EST, you wrote:<BR>>I've tried several ways of trimming the long ends of new shanks. For years<BR>I'd <BR>>clamp a section O shanks in a jaras or spurlock clamp & then c= ut with a<BR>small back <BR>>saw. Dale Erwin <BR><BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Don R= ose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.<BR>Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>