<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Shank weight; was trimming tips </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>Jon Page wrote: My  reasoning for this is the jaggedness of a hammer weight curve and = shank   SW's. Let's say that one were to simply install shanks right out of  the box in order. A 2 g shank coul= d be place next to a 1.6 g shank. Now  what if an 8g hammer were set on the first and a 7.6 on the second. Their  <BR= > respective SW's would be 10 and 9.2; almost a gram! However, if the  shanks were swapped then each SW would be 9.6= . A much better solution..... Exactly.  We’ve been weighing shanks for a while; it does make a= difference in the final feeling of the action...... A place where OCD becomes a plus....<g> David A. </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>