From the email:
The final real story on the so called -- Czech hammer.
If one will look at the
Euroanvils site on customer anvil, he will
see me on the upper left side while demonstrating at the ABANA 2004 conference forging with my Hofi cast hammer on a Euroanvils 500lbs. On the opposite side
Stephen Feinstein the founder of Euroanvil with
Haberman Jr.
This Stephen Feinstein took my cast hammer copied it made a drawing and took it with him without asking me or having any permission to do it to the Czech republic and gave the drawing to Vaclav Hanton, and ask him to produce the hammer. Vaclav Hanton refused to market the hammer in the USA so Stephen Feinstein took it to another producer in the Czech republic by the name of Stanc. He is producing now the Hofi hammer on a cnc milling machine and one can also see it on the attached photo's. This one is sold in the USA for 20$
How they do it I do not know, because in Europe it is sold for 35 euro which is $49. Stephen Fenstein made a very very unethical and unfriendly act. If a Swedish hammer is produced to day in China it is still a Swedish hammer. If a French hammer is produced to day also in China and other places it is still a French hammer. If a Hofi hammer is produced to day in the Czech Republic it does not make it a Czech hammer, it will always be a Hofi hammer.
Hofi