<HTML>. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">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 </BLOCKQUOTE> 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 <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> 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  <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">----- </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>