<html> Hi Ric,             Get the Spurlock hammer hanging Jig, and you will never look back.  You will end up with a much more accurate tailing/backing job.  The hammer line is straight, and so are the tails,  Every other hammer can give a straight strike line, but I have always ended up with little discrepancies with rake, hence the checking is little skewed. Roger At 05:55 PM 9/29/02 +0200, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hi folks Just curious about how many of you hang hammers by taking off every other one and more or less copying the old line, and how many use the << two sample hammers at the end of each section >> method. Also was wondering what you feel are the pros and cons of each method. I've always used the alternate hammers method. It makes pretraveling shanks a bit difficult, unless you travel all the old shanks before you start, and it seems like I end up having to burn the shanks a bit more then perhaps I'd like too. But I do get a real quick dead on line. Guess I am looking for a good reason to learn a new approach :) Any good words of advice ? -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <a href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no" eudora="autourl">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</a> <a href="http://home.broadpark.no/%7Erbrekne/ricmain.html" eudora="autourl">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</a> _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl">https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> </blockquote> </html>