---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dale and Terry, I whole heartedly agree!!!! Dale, Can you describe your method for laying out and calculating the crown? Greg Erwinspiano@AOL.COM wrote: > . > > >> Subj:Re: my own Soundboard >> Date:1/18/2002 4:48:07 PM Pacific Standard Time >> From:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com >> Reply-to:pianotech@ptg.org >> To:pianotech@ptg.org >> Sent from the Internet >> >> Terry > > > > > I can totally relate. I LOVE the smell of sugar pine/spruce just cut > up oh man it's good enough to eat. The happiest days in the shop is > when I'm milling up a bunch of ribs and calculating the crown etc. And > don't forget the smell of maple WOW. Your on a good path. > > Best--Dale Erwin > > >> >> I thought about this a while more Dale - actually, thinking about >> whether I should or not - and I think one of the big reasons is that >> I absolutely LOVE working with wood. My first degree was in Forestry >> - that's how much I love wood. If I thought about doing this five or >> ten years from now when I am clearing $60,000 to $100,000 a year >> rebuilding pianos (hey, everyone needs to have goals!), I could >> never try it because it would cost me TENS of thousands of dollars >> (in lost wages). Dabbling with this now is much easier to swallow >> financially because - well, let's just say I'm well below the >> aforementioned income range. And I am just not that busy now. I am >> busy full time, but I don't have much of a waiting line to get into >> my shop, so I can wiggle this kind of stuff in. >> >> And it adds significantly to the romance of piano rebuilding. That >> is important to me. >> >> Terry Farrell >> >> >> > >> > >> >> ----- >> > > > -- Greg Newell mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c7/5c/b7/f7/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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