Upper-Plate Screws on Vintage 1923s

[Aeskow@xxxxxxx]

Should I just accept as a sad fact of life that, despite a tone I adore, the 
Hering 1923s have some innate design flaw that makes one of the top-plate 
screws (for some reason, usually the right one) loosen and detach after one or two 
gigs?  I don't think I've seen anyone else talk about this--and as always I 
leave open the possibility that I exist in a dimension very much like the 
"real" one but different in tiny ways--but for me it's now three-for-three in my 
playing experience, and I'm a fairly soft player. 

I'd appreciate any help--including, but not limited to, confirmation of the 
alternate-dimension theory.

Johnny T

 ("Some cats blow so HARD, man...For me, see, I just like to carry a little 
bit of wind in my mouth and then just...navigate up and down them reeds.")
- --Little Walter
(As quoted in Living Blues magazine)