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[BobDavis88@aol.com]

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Del writes:

> It is true that a screw left in a soundboard could cause a buzz sometime 
> down the road. But then so will a loose rib. Perhaps we should leave the ribs 
> off as well. Seriously, enough screws have been left in enough soundboards 
> over the past 150 plus years that if this were going to develop into a severe 
> problem it probably would have done so by now.
> 

Del,

Putting the screws between ribs is easy enough, and I understand your point 
about compression-crowned ribs being less sensitive to piercing than 
rib-crowned ribs. However, I have also always heard that standard woodworking practice 
is to replace screws used as clamps, with dowels, and I wondered if in this 
case that was more, or less, risky than leaving the screws in. I have heard noise 
from the screw/button combination. I also considered a spruce plug instead of 
a dowel, or a dowel up into the bridge and a plug in the soundboard. 

The problem is, I have a bridge staring me in the face and I don't want to 
build a pneumatic press tomorrow.

Thanks,
Bob D

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