<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV><FONT size=5>  Ron</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=5>  Forgive my 50 ish year old brain densification but are you saying here that the stiffer you make the board the harder the requirements are for the hammer.  If so I'm confused.  I remember Del saying this type of board can't tolerate hard hammers & that he was having troulbe at one point with even the "softest" of hammers giving voicing difficulties.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=5>  My contention has been that the stiffer the belly system the stiffer the hammer requirements.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=5>  Perhaps it was your particular brand of english that got me twisted. Grin.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=5>   Dale</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>what it will teach me through the project. I'm making the <BR>ribs (therefor the assembly) generally stiffer, and adjusting <BR>the remaining crown up. The postmortem has indicated that the <BR>result is a greater tolerance, but not a requirement of harder <BR>hammers. This connects, to me, with the very high spring rate <BR>of a new CC or RCPS board and it's need, not tolerance, for <BR>harder hammers.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>