Excellent videos, gentlemen.  My apologies, I didn't actually listen perhaps to the first video.  I will send in some emails regarding my future questions.  Thank you for all the good information so far!

OK, so I watched all your videos so far and immediately decided to tackle bridge resurrection on my old violin. I shook it out and got organized with my setting tool and tried for 2 hours to set it but it wouldn't stay, just kept falling. So I put it away and thought about it and then decided my major mistake was, no strings, no tension at all. Tonight I took all the goodies received from the Fiddleshop recently and put the tailpiece on, and set up the strings, fiddled with bridge and finally was happy with some reasonable pressure and tension on the strings. I got my sound post tool and voila, first try it stuck. Then adjusted a bit to make it feel more stable and tuned the strings a bit more, and finally played a bit on it. Woo hoo! Will play it for a week or two and then maybe do a few recordings of my other violin and this one to see the difference.

Thanks for the excellent videos. Very good help.