I am perhaps the least experienced on this list with this kind of work... but each time I've recapped leaving most / all of the root I have filled bridge holes with epoxy and 3 mm bamboo sticks. First fill with enough epoxy, then push the bamboo stick into the hole shear off and wipe off excess epoxy. Similar to the way some Wapin installers fill the old bridge pin holes before drilling new vertical holes. Cheers RicB Let me add another question - are you lads and lassies plugging the old bridge pin holes left in the root, or leaving them? Particularly where you are leaving so much of the root, that would seem to be an important question here. Will Truitt
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