Shoe pegs or epoxy to fill bridge holes

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    For years we have used shoe pegs to fill the remaining portion of the 
bridge pin holes after the caps are taken off in preparation for new caps. I had 
a good system using shoe pegs and the Bolduc wood glue to secure them. The 
glue doesn't gum up in  the bit as does most other glues I've tried & with this 
simple system I can usually drill a set of bridges painlessly in about an hour 
or so.

    The problem is that no one in the shop enjoys pounding square pegs in 
round hole except my wife Trix & she's often to busy stringing etc.......  Also 
the pegs are getting hard to find in quantity. Any way I recently tried the 
West systems epoxy treatment squeezing it into the holes. Relatively quick & 
painless except for the guk/sticky factor.  Ater this I immediately glue on the 
caps also with epoxy.
  After it cured for about 5 days I drilled for the new pin holes but the 
residual epoxy seems to powder up or alternately stick to the bit. I find this 
characteristic unacceptable.  Then every other hole or so I must run the bit 
thru some thin scrap spruce to clean the bit the drill again & over & over etc. 
Tedious useless activity.
  I'd be interested in someone else's technique who has more experience with 
epoxy in this application. I like the idea of epoxies hardness and all that 
but I do a fair amount of bridge work & can't handle the aggravation. What am I 
missing?

  Dale Erwin
Erwins Piano Restorations
4721 Parker Rd, Modesto, Ca. 95357
erwinspiano@aol.com

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