<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">   David Love wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> I have not seen a plugged block after ten or twenty years, what happens to them? David Love<a href="mailto:davidlovepianos@earthlink.net">davidlovepianos@earthlink.net</a> </blockquote> I would guess that the result are variable... far more so then a new block would be. What you plugged with compared to the origional wood, grain orientation, degree of MC for both peices at the time of the repair.. all the usual stuff that can cause the repair to fail. Some folks will take pains to take all that into consideration, others will not I suppose. RicB   -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A>   </body> </html>