I hope everyone is enjoying the Holiday weekend.  I also hope that everyone remembers what this special holiday is about.  We pay respect to those who gave their lives for the freedoms we enjoy.  May we never forget. 

I have had a lot of questions from readers about the technique change I made and I hope to put up some info on that soon.  Particularly I want to discuss a couple of things to think about to allow for a more solid and snappy lockout and some video of some drills.  I hope to get to that this week.  In other news the shirts are in and I have a few to send out so I'll be doing that after Tuesday.  They turned out great.  I am all for using local businesses but I am going to use this new company going forward because they do a great job.  The shirts are nice and they even have removable tags on them so you know they are brand new : ) 

I just finished making a few heavy bells.  I have been doing quite a few recently and I think I am done for a while.  Maybe forever.  It's a lot of work and I am getting tired of it.  I can't say yet how many or how heavy I made them.  Nonetheless, the last monster bell was for me.  As far as the ones I have made, this one isn't even in the top eight as far as heaviness goes.  I wanted one that I could work with but would still be a challenge.  I went with a patriotic theme with this one.  What do you think?