<html> If you drill you new pin holes from a pattern of the old holes, might you be duplicating the misplacement of the pins which might have caused the failure in the first place? I think it is best to mark your pins holes with a line stretched between the hitch pin and agraffes. On pianos where there is just a v-bar, make a pattern of the string placement before taking them off, it will also help during their installation. Regards, Jon Page At 06:00 PM 08/15/2001 -0500, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite cite>Dear Bevelers, Thanks much for helping me out with el problemo. I've ordered a spokeshave, and am excited to get a new tool! After looking in the reprint CD, and finding little for my specific bridge capping (bass bridge), I decided that I would do it the most straightforward way (to me anyway). I had made a tracing, but later decided instead to use the old cap as a template for drilling holes. Removed the old cap (radial arm saw), and had the hole placement and the angles already there. I did not find this procedure in the reprints, so I don't know if this was the "proper way" to do it. Made sense to me--is this the "right way"? I know that a paper tracing will work fine, and that it could be somewhat better because you can relocate the holes that were incorrectly drilled at the time of manufacture. However, on this piano (older Howard console), it seemed just as easy to do it by removing the top section of the old cap to use as a template. Thoughts? John Formsma Blue Mountain, MS <a href="mailto:jformsma@dixie-net.com" eudora="autourl">mailto:jformsma@dixie-net.com</a></blockquote></html>