abe suarez wrote:Omega, have you considered it's the method of how you're releasing your peener? Finesse,finesse!!
Abe: Do you really think its my approach to peening that is causing me all this trouble? Here's my method:
I slowly approch the Peen-ee and make the internationally recognized gesture known to identify me as a suave, sophisticated gentleman, namely:
Inserting my right index finger through the opening between my encircled left index finger and thumb and moving my right index finger rapidly in and out.
After making my intentions known thusly, I take out my peener. That's when all hell breaks loose.
Seriously, I did attempt the correction bill mentioned, but only managed to make matters worse on the liner-gapped 33cm. Shame too, as it has some fairly pretty dark horn. I will either garage sale that one, or send it off to a certain indian fellow in Michigan, providing he can take time away from his job standing outside of the tobacco shop, selling cigars. That piece is so badly gapped that I may be best to garage sale it. I suspect straightening those liners may require scale removal the gaps are so bad.
I shall attempt surgery on the 28cm swing tomorrow. If that one goes similarly, I shall send it on to Michigan too, but then that is a different sort of problem. He did a wonderful restoration of an almost identical poece for me some months back, and it arrived looking as we all WISH stuff would looks like straight from Maniago.
Either way, it's no big loss. Both pieces were from a larger lot of 12 varying pieces bought from a local collector who was liquidating out of financial necessity. The balance of the lot was more or less perfect. I could sell 4, make back all my cash, junk the above two and still have 6 great additions to my collection.
Even better, I may include photos of the above two on the site as examples of common factory defects.
Could it be the size of the gesture that's creating the havoc? 
