Ron ...understood But for the record. Modesto is only 200,000. & 1/2 million in Stanislaus county. A very big spread out county. I am 100 miles from the 5 million plus folks you refer to in the people republic of the greater bay area. The work that comes here doesn't fall out of the sky by any stretch. 25 years of intentional marketing, taking everything that comes my way, making people happy.... is what bring work to our shop. SO it ain't as easy as it sounds. I'm 59 yrs young and a bit tired but still enjoying the work. I'm just saying Dale ps this is my 40 th year in the trenches. who hooo! Dale Erwin R.P.T. Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc. Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S. pianos www.Erwinspiano.com Phone: 209-577-8397 -----Original Message----- From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Thu, Dec 6, 2012 9:06 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Key recovering-was wagner planner Paul, Dale, A considerable number of us don't live in an area where we can make $600 servicing three pianos in a day. That means we can spend a half day doing a set of keytops and pay for time, where we can't get the price to send them out and still make anything. A good machine setup helps a bunch. I have an old Oslund machine set that simplifies and speeds things up considerably, but I used a set of table table saw jigs prior to that which worked fairly well, if a whole lot scarier. As I've pointed out before, having five million people within an hour's drive of you makes for a significant difference in attitude and pricing. I don't like doing them either, BTW, but I do. Ron N -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20121207/bf65bc05/attachment.htm>
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