I feel like I lost a old friend. Must have been 25 plus years ago I took a good old hard maple hammer handle, cut off the part that the head fits on and bored out the bottom couple of inches and put some lead shot in it. It was perfect untill a few years ago when the epoxy started cracking. Tried new epoxy nothing seemed to work, even covered it with some silicone to seal it with no luck. Finally took it off and cut the bored out part off. It just not the same, I miss having the weight at the end. Well I plan to make another but am looking for a better way to seal some lead in the end.