Interesting. What is the black dot on the side of your counterpunch? Here are a couple of photos of a counterpunch which broke during Stan Nelson's 2016 Wells College class. You can see the parts whi… (View Post)
I just checked Stan's handouts for the 2016 Wells class, and he does in fact say "pure lead" for proofing counterpunches. I don't suppose that means it has to be chemically pure, of course!… (View Post)
The punchcutter (specifically) only needs a soft metal such as lead for proofing counterpunches. You can't proof a counterpunch with a smoke proof, because the smoke proof tells you what the end of t… (View Post)
In this post I'll show just fixtures for holding punch blanks and counterpunches for counterpunching. Fixtures for punching matrices will follow in another posting. It would also be worth collecting … (View Post)
First (as an aside) a note of thanks to those who have been posting other material, questions, and comments. I feel a bit awkward posting so much here, but by complete chance I have access to quite a… (View Post)