I'll agree with Nathan on this. Get Helmut to send you some dog blanks. It's possible to shim the slot, but it's much easier to make a new dog. Keep the old one - you may find that as the weather changes back to warmer and wetter that your "winter dog" doesn't work anymore and you'll need to change back to your "summer dog".
Making your first dog is a bit daunting, but it gets easier with time and practice (like most things). Alden > I'm certainly not an expert on this, but I think you would normally make a new > trompette bridge rather than trying to shim it. I'm sure you can get blanks > from a maker, and it's an interesting exercise to see how different chien > configurations affect the buzz. At least that's the obvious step to take if > other adjustments don't work out.
