Yeah, I would go for something harder than Pine also. I'd probably second Poplar...just find a piece that isn't tinged green if you're going to stain and color-match something.

I'll leave the color-matching part to BobKay!

The reason I thought of the "board across the studs" thing was because this was what I had done for my QS8s in that I didn't trust wall anchors to hold the T-Bracket directly in my horsehair plaster walls:





::::::: No disrespect to Axiom, but my favorite woofer is my yellow lab :::::::