<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Dale and Terry,     I whole heartedly agree!!!!   Dale,     Can you describe your method for laying out and calculating the crown? Greg Erwinspiano@AOL.COM wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>.   <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>  </blockquote> -- Greg Newell <A HREF="mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net">mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net</A>  </html>