<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">What Eric said! In my experience the hole saw with dowel is faster and easier than the Forstner. If you have access to a machinist lathe, you can bore out a brass Steinway pitman dowel to fit over the center bit of the hole saw. <DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-size: 12px; "> </DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; ">Don McKechnie</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; ">Piano Technician</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; ">Ithaca College</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; "><A href="mailto:dmckech@ithaca.edu">dmckech@ithaca.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; ">607-274-3908</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; "> </DIV><DIV style="font-size: 12px; "> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV><DIV>On Oct 17, 2006, at 2:00 PM, <A href="mailto:caut-request@ptg.org">caut-request@ptg.org</A> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">David,<O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> </O:P>I use a 1 1/8” hole saw for this operation. Hole saws usually have a Ľ” pilot bit which can be drilled into the end of a wooden dowel that is the same diameter as the original pitman hole. This keeps the hole saw from wandering around everywhere until you get it started. I haven’t seen the forstner type bit you are describing but if you could thread it onto a dowel it would work as a guide in much the same manner as the pilot bit in the hole saw.<O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> </O:P>Eric<O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "></O:P><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "> </O:P><DIV>Eric Wolfley, RPT Head Piano Technician Cincinnati College-Conservatory of <ST1:PLACENAME w:st="on">Music</ST1:PLACENAME> <ST1:PLACETYPE w:st="on">University</ST1:PLACETYPE> of <ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Cincinnati</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> </BODY></HTML>