<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:gnewell@EN.COM" title=gnewell@EN.COM>Greg = Newell</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 02, 2000 = 1:08 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Expensive new = tool</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Brian, <BR>    I saw this at ShopBot's = own home page and thought it was pretty cool. I wonder, does such an animal = exist that would follow the form of the underside of the plate and cut a pinblock = blank to match?  Now THAT would be cool! <BR>        Greg <P>Brian Trout wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE">Hi List, <P>I don't know if you might have already seen this, but in case you = haven't, <BR>it seemed like a really neat tool to have around.  = (If you can afford it, <BR>that is.) <P>Go to:  <A = href="http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/findprod.cfm?&DID=6&sku== 5207">http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/findprod.cfm?&DID=6&sku=52= 07</A> <P>It's a neat idea, a sort of CNC Router at a (slightly) more = affordable price <BR>than we're used to seeing. <P>Hi Greg, <P><FONT size=2>If you're going to the National Convention, ask = Shawn Hoar about his pinblock tracer.  It's a router set up in a jig that = traces the underside of the plate wihile cutting the block.  Pretty cool.</FONT> <P><FONT size=2>Doug = Mahard</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>