Okay, not sure what I'm doing wrong but just can't seem to get your trick to work like it's supposed to! I'm still a little confused as to how you get your idea to work! You say you put the screw on top of the dowel and then just place the deke on it, huh? When I try that, the ridges underneath the deke make it slide and fall off! And the pre-cut hole in the deke is just too big! The hole is the balance point but it's almost one square inch so there isn't much of a place to drill another hole and it be balanced! So here's what I did, and please let me know what you think or what I might be doing wrong with your idea! I drove a sharp flat head screw about halfway through the deke as close to the pre-drilled hole as possible. Then I placed the deke/screw onto the top of the dowel rod. That sucker spins and bobs like crazy just as long as I don't push the screw too far down into the dowell rod. If I push it too far, it holds real well but won't spin and bob much at all! But that's the problem I'm running in to! If I just barely put the screw into the dowel rod, the deke spins so much that a strong wind knocks it off or bobbles it so much up and down that it doesn't look natural! After a million tries, I have yet to find the right depth to push the screw into the dowel...it's either too deep and the deke doesn't move much or it's not deep enough and it moves too much! If the wind would just stay at a constant 5 to 10 mph, I'd have it made, but we know that ain't happening! HELP!!!