<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Byron,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes I am pounding each pin from the bottom, most blocks are drilled through so there is no problem finding the hole.  I don't know how you would make it work if the block was not drilled through.  It would seem that the problem with any other type of repair would be expensive and not worth it.  If you take a coil off of a rusted pin and turn the pin out and replace the coil you still have old strings and a lot of time, I think you could repin and restring faster than doing one a time repairs.  I am also assuming that most are pounded, a lot of the time I would start out thinking I had to fix one or two and started tuning and found most of them too far down, that's why I recommended looking at all of them and pounding them all out to a good level and then CAing.  I don't have a good solution if the block does not go all of the way through though.  Good luck with it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phil</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>