shop work

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?Yeah, yeah.....?good posts Ed...Fenton..David L?
? Over time I?cultivated the shop work in?with the intention of being there full time.? And I was mostly
? When Sheldon Smith was still alive he gave me some sage advice.?" Don't give up all your private clients." I think he tuned for Yoshis in S.F. ever day or routinely. He loved the gig.
? Well I almost did give em up & then I found that after about 10 years of mostly in the the shop(I do Love the shop)?I discovered I missed my therapy clients.? You know the ones ?who love to see you & the ones the feed my/your soul
? So now I'm trying to be out one complete day a week. It's been more?healthy & as you all have testified to...this is where new jobs come from.
?It's all about what balances your life. Oh my Gosh...Were so fortunate to have the choice.
? Dale
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I go right along with Ed, here. I have one part time helper in the shop when I have too many jobs at once. One belly job completely swamps me between tunings and over the line action work that comes in, I just have a small shop at home so overhead is low, what a life! What a life! I enjoy having someone that knows my shop and tools and how I like to use them, it's a big plus to be able to call him in.?
Fenton?
----- Original Message ----- From: <A440A at aol.com>?
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>?
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 9:54 AM?
Subject: Re: shop work?
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> Ric writes:?
>?
> << I currently service about 20+ residential and institutional accounts > per?
> week, all year long.?
> First appointment @ 10am ,last @ 4 roughly. (9+ hours a day, with travel)?
>?
> How do you all factor shop work into your scheduales? Right now ,I work in?
> some time on Sun> (my day off !) >>?
>?
> Greetings,?
> First thing is to raise your tuning price by 20%. This should free up > some?
> time in your schedule to pursue other work. You are presently working 45 > hour?
> weeks, and if you don't schedule a regular day off, you will not last as > long.?
>?
> I really like having a non-deadline job in the shop at all times. This?
> allows me to carry on with my tuning schedule (which is where most of the?
> rebuilding and regulating work comes from), and never have to worry about > an "off"?
> day where nobody calls. As long as I have an action on the bench, there is?
> highly profitable work right here at home that can be done in whatever > time?
> increments fit the holes in tuning calls. I can even schedule several > days in the?
> shop as a sort of "vacation" from the tuning, and make more than I can > with the?
> tuning hammer. This makes it easy to stop worrying about having nothing > to?
> do, and the funny thing is, the increase in tuning prices didn't really > change?
> the number of calls I get, it just raised my income.?
>?
>?
>?
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