Face-balanced
The face stares at the ceiling on the peg. Quiet arcs like this. Rotation arcs fight it, then invent a miss and blame bermuda. If your ten-and-ten shows a closing face, this hang is a quarrel, not a flex.
Release
A mallet that still toes is a blade in a tuxedo
Hang is not a lifestyle. It is the angle the face wants when the shaft is level. Face-balanced, slight, or still-a-blade — we hang it on a peg before we believe a stamp.
Slight hang
The usual honest mallet. A little toe, not a blade’s nod. Plenty of Midtown strokes live here. Catalogs under-sell it because “face-balanced” photographs better.
Still a blade
Some mallets hang like the thin heads they replaced. That can be correct. It is not a scandal. It is a number. Moss writes it. Then we ask if you wanted that story.
Versus blades
Different animal, same peg
A blade is built to hang. A mallet is built to resist. Mixing the languages — a mallet with blade hang in the hands of a player who wanted quiet — is how people buy three heads in a year. We put both on the peg if you bring a blade as a witness. We will not run a blade fitting. We will show you the angles so the tuxedo problem has a name.
Ten rolls from a square start, ten from your arc. If the toe never moves in your hands but nods on the peg, the grip or length may be hiding it. That is when June gets the recut, not a new family.