Pin flexing/bending/twisting

[Ron Nossaman]

>     Tom,
>     My wife likes marshmallows charred, so I'm sure the hide glue is an
>     enhancement.  The other outdoor laboratory experiment I did late
>     this summer during the bridgepin/false-beat debates was to put an
>     old bridge with pins intact into a hot campfire with bridgepins
>     up. This resulted in the false beats being eliminated permanently.
>      
>     Dave Davis
> 
>     Dave,
>         Interesting. Did you seat the strings with the Nossaman Model
>     500 2Lb. sledge first ?
>         <G>
>         Tom D.


Just drive those pins in flush, and the false beats clear 
right up.
Ron N