Stan and Phunter ,good points by both of you and in my opinion as someone who does this for a living its exactly the issue ...I just built a custom for my son last christmas on a lightweight 20 frame ...the original inletting was apparently accomplished by quite a small beaver with ADS ...so it wasn't hard to improve there,I also used a piece of real nice Canadian grown black walnut ,like I said pretty, but as some of you know most black walnut is not hard as it it could be ...after inletting I sealed the head with wood petrifier ,Ill see how that helps
