>To Ron N. : You are such a helpful fellow!<G> >Best Regards, >Joe Garrett, R.P.T. I try, Joe. But tell me, what's wrong with putting upright back check wires into the end grain of a dowel? Philistine that I am, I'd do just that and soak in some thin CA afterwards to petrify the dowel. Someone could probably dig that piano up 10,000 years from now and find nothing but a handful of petrified dowels (still in pretty god shape) with a hole full of rust in each. Ron N
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