<html> <body> For anyone who has both of them, just compare their use.  Just holding the smaller one is more difficile.  There's less control over the orientation of the smaller one.  Try holding each between just the thumb and forefinger.  Non, mes amis. There IS, no comparison, eh? David Skolnik At 07:18 AM 7/4/2005 -0500, Avery Todd wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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. </blockquote> *(What I previously posted) <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">All due respect, take another look at the photo.  In fact, this one is not the one they made to check shank to molding dimension.  Rather this was designed to check the  molding / string angle with the hammer pulled up to contact string.  The folded-over part of the shorter length would sit on top of the string (Baldwin name would be upside down), and the longer length would be brought adjacent to the side of the subject hammer (which would have previously had a line drawn bisecting the molding).  The gauge would indicate whether the hammer is striking at 90 degrees or not.  David Skolnik</blockquote> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Avery At 05:40 AM 7/4/05, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">At 23:21 7/3/2005, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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. 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. Del </blockquote> I've got two of them. Different length "vertical" arms. Conrad Hoffsommer Early to rise: early to bed; Makes a man healthy, and socially dead.</blockquote></blockquote> Avery Todd wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">BTW, Conrad. Your's look "really well-used". Mine are still kind of shiny. ;-)</blockquote> The patina intentionally adds to the illusion that one is longer than the other :)  ds <a href="file://c:\docume~1\david\applic~1\qualcomm\eudora\attach\MVC-006S.JPG" eudora="attachment"> <img src="cid:.0" width=640 height=480 alt="[]"></a> <a href="file://c:\docume~1\david\applic~1\qualcomm\eudora\attach\MVC-006S.JPG" eudora="attachment">   MVC-006S.JPG </a></body> </html>