Hello all,

I've got a splitting headache that's pretty much halted production this afternoon. Reckon it's partly due to an intensely frustrating conversation with a client earlier (VERY fussy, but can't tell me what she wants, only that every sample/drawing I do for her isn't quite it!)

But mostly down to a morning at the power hammer. I normally wear disposable foam ear plugs, but they don't quite seem to be cutting it.
I prefer them to phones, as I don't like the big lumps hanging off my head, and the (admittedly cheap) phones I do have tend to press the arms of my glasses into my temples and, well......,give me a headache!

But I'm now thinking I owe my ears a break - wondering whether to go for top quality plugs, electronic phones, or high quality standard phones.
I know a few people use a combination of both plugs and phones...but there's always the dilemma of wanting to hear a customer or delivery at the door when not actually hammering, not to mention having time to remove all the protective gear in time to pick up the phone before the answer machine. (Yeah, I don't worry too much about that if I've actually got hot metal in my hand, but you never know what you might miss!)

I'm going to be doing much more forging, power hammer work than usual between now and Christmas, an I wanna be sure to hear those sleigh bells, so what do you recommend ?