<!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 6.00.6000.16608" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Go for it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fenton</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=juderev@verizon.net href="mailto:juderev@verizon.net">Jude Reveley/Absolute Piano</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Piano Tech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 17, 2008 8:55 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Beautiful Sitka Spruce</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>Terry, if I had half of your salty dog woodworking chops, I wouldn't need this fancy machine. But even still it took quite a bit of calibration to get this thing to within your tolerances. There is a secret to the calibration, you need to hang it out to dry (see picture)...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ron and Fenton: Here in the Northeast we consider it a luxury to actually have a shop on our property and not have to give the Man his due rent. All my kids understand that Daddy remortgaged the house and spent their college tuitions on his fancy tools; now we start their apprenticeships at age 2! Old school, Baby.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jude Reveley, RPT<BR>Absolute Piano Restoration, LLC<BR>Lowell, Massachusetts<BR>(978) 323-4545</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>