At 10:50 PM 5/8/2002 +0000, you wrote:
Bencher is now making the Mercury. It's the one I was thinking of in my
previous paddle post that they want around 500 bucks(!) for.
I have not seen the Bencher copy of the Mercury, but Don Hensley makes a
beautiful paddle that is very similar
to the Mercury, but is not a copy. There is also the Long Island Mercury,
made on Long Island, NY, that is supposed
to be an exact copy of the Mercury (and looks it). I have the original
Mercury, and to me, it is head and shoulders
above anything else I own, or have owned. This would include the Brown
Bros CTL, Kent, Stan Hails first
two models of the WBL, Norcal, and a coupla others I cannot recall the
names of right now.
These paddles, at 500 bux a pop, are not for everybody, but everytime I sit
down to my daily "CW FIX", I pat
myself on the back for buying mine when I did. The money I paid for it has
long since been forgotten, but I
have enjoyed the paddle for 8 years or so, and expect to enjoy it as long
as I am able to make that CW music.
Dub
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J. W. (Dub) Thornton WA5YFY
Minco, OK.
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