Ric, Your Quote: "I have yet to see a piano with tuning pin bushings that really sit tight. Some better then others for sure... but seems like sooner or later they will move. And one way or another... I think any wood bushing will end up more like the squishy/deformation type then an open faced pinblock" That's because you are using end-grain plate bushings incorrectly. The plate bushings should be cross-grain, as it was originally intended, i.e. Kimball type. These can be made, quite easily, out of scrap pinblock material. They work!<G>(as original intent-Del!)(inside joke)<G> Best Regards, Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon) Captain, Tool Police Squares Are I
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