Joe, you might want to go check out Frets.com here:
http://frets.com/
Read through that for what has to be one of the very finest sources of information about stringed instrument repair.
Another excellent resource is to go to the Custom Shop subforum on this forum. A lot of the guitar hand builders hang out at that subforum, so you'll probably get quicker and better answers to these technical questions there:
http://www.acousticguitarforum.com/f...splay.php?f=38
Hope this helps.
whm