help a beginner measure mc in wood with confidence

[Ron Nossaman]

jimialeggio5 at comcast.net wrote:

>  We agreed
> that the trick is not to take on someone else's OCD, just
> manage your own.  

The biggest hurdle seems to be getting past what we already 
know. A number of the mental models that allowed us to be 
semi-functional with high compression boards aren't 
appropriate to RC&S work, like the pre-loading with wedges 
thing for setting bearing. Another thing you'll find is that 
the RC&S board isn't critically sensitive to downbearing loads 
like CC. They don't seem to mind much either way tonally 
whether they're carrying 1/3°, or 1.5°. So if you have a rib 
set that truly qualifies as RC&S, you have a built in 
forgiveness factor to some , ugh, degree.
Ron N