---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment . > Subj:Re: my own Soundboard > Date:1/18/2002 4:48:07 PM Pacific Standard Time > From:<A HREF="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</A> > Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> > 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 > > >> >> >>> ----- >>> >> > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1a/41/5e/25/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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