<!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 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> <DIV>John M. Ross wrote:</DIV></DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black">SNIP</DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>How did you end up getting the accurate spacing? <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Did you make a template, and then route out for the inlay of new wood?</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>No, it looks like you just cut out, and inserted a new section.</FONT></STRONG></DIV></FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I followed Ron Nossaman's advice and drilled the pin holes from the top through the rail - that way the holes in the bottom of the rail mark my pin locations. However, in this case it was less than perfect because many of the holes on the top side were rather distorted and it was difficult to really see where the original hole was. I ended up doing a lot of measuring and dividing. I don't have the keys to install (they're in another shop), so I don't yet know exactly how successful the key-to-key  spacing is. But I think it will be pretty good.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>In that case, why didn't you just make a complete new rail? It seems to me,</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>it would have been easier than splicing in two new pieces. Or am I mis-</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>interpreting what I see.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>IMHO, a new rail would have been much more difficult to make. The way I did it, I had the pin locations fairly well nailed down, and routing and cutting two little strips of maple went fairly quickly.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>