<html> At 01:08 PM 9/4/02 -0700, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I'm trying to get an upright ready in a hurry for a cheap temporary rental. The balance rail holes are ugly. Lots of missing wood. Some keys are really loose. Center punching around the hole? What size, shape tip? How close to the hole? How deep? Then glue size? I heard also of making a kerf cut and installing piece of veneer. Front and back? I think I could make a cut with my drywall knife that would be wide enough for the veneer edging I have. Would I then just size the hole or drill it out? Thanks Keith R</blockquote> Here's a quick-and-dirty variant on the CA glue method recently posted: Take a new key pin, of the appropriate diameter and insert it into the offending key so it sticks out of the bottom 1/4" or so. Apply some CA glue around the pin so that it fills the area of missing/compressed wood; add kicker. When the glue is hard, tap the key on the table, from the bottom once or twice until the  key pin pops out.  Now you have an exactly sized hole. Flat file the glue bead so that it is flush with the bottom of the key. Take an old key pin, same size, and score it between two files.  This is similar to what is done for a center pin vise. Insert the scored key pin into a drill chuck and you  can use it for precisely sizing key hole to the key frame key pin. Good luck Matt </html>