Erratic Keypins

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Fri Jul 21 22:22:11 MDT 2006


ed440 at mindspring.com wrote:
>> Nothing slick, but will lazy do? Any chance of drilling the 
>> existing holes through, routing out and inlaying a strip of 
>> maple, and using the through holes from the back as guides to 
>> re-drill? With your overhead track pinblock drill, it 
>> shouldn't be a problem keeping everything square and accurate.
>>
>> Ron 
> 
> That's pretty good.  But if you tack the new stuff under the old rail, you could just drill through both at once.  The holes left over after routing will index the new strip.
> Ed S.

I'd buy that, but glue squeeze-out from the inlay will 
probably necessitate a drill pass anyway, to clean out the 
hole, so it's probably a "six of one" sort of thing.

Ron N


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