<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Broken Plate</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">><i> Oh, okay, I get you now. It's ultimately the strength of the plate that</i></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">><i> would allow a design that has the soundboard extending up behind the</i></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">><i> pinblock.</i></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">And what on earth does it do up there?!</font></blockquote> <div><br> <br> </div> <div>It gives the sales people bragging rights on more sounding board area, basic PR BS.</div> <div>They did the same thing with the bass cutoff bar.</div> <div><br></div> <div>My question would be, how does one restring these? You can't support the block</div> <div>while driving pins, I've often wondered about this while encountering Astin-Weights;</div> <div>hoping I would not have to replace a loose pin.</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><br> Regards,<br> <br> Jon Page</div> </body> </html>