<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Rested...from a day in the shop..."?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yesterday I jointed with a hand plane and glued up two soundboard panels (a 6-footer and a 9-footer), tapered one of them to spec with a hand plane (sweating my tushy off), and sanded both of them down so they are ready for finishing. Let me tell ya, I had a big smile on my face at 11 pm when I finished ('cause I love doing this kind of stuff), but I was dead on my feet and then asleep in my recliner by 11:10 pm!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rested from a day in the shop - HA!   <FONT color=#008000 size=6> ;-)</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original Message ----- </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> <BR>> If you just always wear swim trunks and flip-flops, your customers will expect and come to love their crazy piano tuner...;-]<BR>> <BR>> If you have concert work, hopefully, you know in advance.   In that case do you want to be rested, tuning wise, from a day in the shop, or be nicely dressed from a day of tuning, but a little tired...no easy answer here.   I still think 1/2 day of shop and 1/2 of tuning works best...<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> David Ilvedson, RPT<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>