<!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></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>  Ric</DIV> <DIV>  Well .....When the return on investment is marginal, many alterations do not pay.  I am a business man too.  However th= ey both got the usual rib crowned treatment with taller narrower spruce ribs instead of the original sugar pine rib, plus some panel tapering. = I have to remind myself that one of the biggest alterations you can make is to= use & crown spruce ribs to achieve bearing load support.  This makes a tremendous improvement even though it may not solve all the anomalies many o= f us on list do not care for.</DIV> <DIV>     The top 3 treble sections hammer strike line ,was VERY  fussy &  Closely dialing that in made a tremendous difference.....as it always does.</DIV> <DIV>  Thanks</DIV> <DIV>   Dale</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>Come on there Dale... don't be så modest !!  Its an Erwin-Conover now.... <= BR>or did you just replicate things exactly as they were ?<BR><BR>Cheers<BR>RicB</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>