>Here's what I've been doing. I've been laying out the pattern on the fresh cap, marking it fist with a pencil mark, and then with a very sharp awl (not deep, just a mark I can see, perhaps 1/32" deep), and proceeding to drill with the standard drill bit from Apsco, by hand. --------- >Brian Trout I have tried brad point, and hand sharpening bits to steeper angles, but have settled on my regular old set of number drills. I use an old nail set, ground down to just under the diameter of a #6 pin, and pointed a little steeper than the grind on a standard jobbers bit. I punch the bridge top to the depth of the point, maybe 1/16". The bit centers in the punch mark for me better this way than anything else I've found (making no claim to anything like perfection). If there is a better way, I'd sure like to know about it too. Ron
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