The guy cut some shims of the bar and brought them over for me to silver to the end of the long bars. This is starting to feel like a hack-job and making me angry.

I can see sticking the shim on the end of the bar, then it slipping when I go to silver the ring on. I really love being the guy to fix a $50,000 piece of wood furniture with a torch.

may be Ill get some pics or delete the thread and lay-low for a while.