<<RE: drive 'em in to proper height, Is there a commercial tool made to do that, or have you made your own?>> a backcheck tool (APSCo 16245) chucked in a Drill Press with with Susan Graham's plywood tilt table (PTJ 1/88). BTW, I'm not impressed by the backcheck wire driven in perpendicular and then bent to a bevel halfway up (Baldwin and more recently Steinway). It looks as though it would provide better support to the hammering the check gets. But if you want to go that kind of support, the wire needs to come right up into the back of the check molding, directly under the hammer tail's point of impact. Move the wire anywhere out from under that point and it's a a cantilever (at which point you might as well have straight wires going in at an angle.) Bill Ballard RPT NH Chapter, PTG "If you are in a dilemma about where to park your car, ask your hostess. If she is engaged, ask some responsible person who can indicate a convenient spot" Betty White's Teenage Dance Book (paperback, 1959)
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