those pesky nose bolts, now locate guide rail.

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<< >how about some ideas on locating the damper guide rail. My last job I 
pluged the holes, made a new rail and started over. I've frustrated myself trying 
to exactly locate the little number 8 screws, or 

whatever they are, drilling precisely in the right spot through the new 

soundboard, to catch the old hole. >>



 
Greetings, 
   Several things come to mind.  Plug the old holes before the new board is 
glued in.  Or, plug the screw holes in the guide rail and locate new ones, or, 
if the spacing is really changed, just make a new one.  
   I most always keep the old guide rails, with new boards, but at times, I 
wonder if it is worth it.  Since the head spacing on many of the damperheads 
has to be changed, ( that's two bends and alignment, each)  to accomodate new 
bridge notching and stringing to the old guide holes, the time it takes to fit 
the damper anew may be saved if I had a guide rail with every hole aligned to 
the strings. It would be nice to do without plate interferences, and 
proximal/distal alignment could be changed, if necessary.  
    I would still have to space some of the heads, but perhaps avoid the 
numerous, small, time-sucks that plague damper jobs.  Anybody make new guides as 
SOP? 
 

Ed Foote RPT 
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