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Well, the house looks like it is sold and we have to leave by August 15th, so I have spent the last two full days just moving wood out of one shed....the shop and another shed to go! There is no "rest" in any of this change for at least a couple of months!

This is my packaging station, side by side delivers pieces, they are banded and then...



...loaded in the trailer. I already have a bunch of wood moved to the town I am working in and I have another order of wood arriving from India in a few days. Really....I am getting out of the tonewood business!!



We are relocating to Edmonton, Alberta, from our 45 acre property to a city lot.....we are trying to find a place large enough for the wood and the tools that is close to the boys activities that doesn't cost 3/4 of million dollars. It's a tall order and I may be renting shop space....

Just thought I would share cause I needed a break! I am looking forward to spending more time building stringed things and learning more about the cnc so my youngest son can have some cool looking electrics as well.

OK, back to work for me!
Shane

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I can sympathize....I'm in the process of moving too. Must be a big relief to have the house sold anyway

You bet Kevin, but we are "moving up" so looks like we will just be more in the hole. Hope your move goes smooth man!

Shane

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Canada

Smooth move, Exlax...

Moving shop and wood - glad that's behind me. Good luck with yours.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

I've just moved and got a workshop still to move don't envy you! Hope all goes well.

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Formerly JJH

I learn more from my mistakes than my successes

First change, then rest. Hopefully I'll be around next year. Should be about the time you're getting around to unpacking the stash. We can regrade using Mario's system over a whiskey

Good luck with the move bud. Moving would be the perfect time to reflect upon one's needs and jettison all that unnecessary brick a brack that's accumulated over the years that we have no use for and aren't even sure how it came into our possession in the first place.................. if we could only get our wives on our side.

I know I've said it before but the legacy of Lutz is a pretty amazing notch in the belt.

Cheers

Don't forget the felt-tip markers!

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Jim Kirby
kirby@udel.edu

Good luck with the move! I haven't had the fortune of a visit, but I'm sure that you'll like Edmonton. Its not Winnipeg, but it will do for living in a big city!

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Welcome to Alberta! Home of the free, the I-came-from-somewhere-else, the employed and the cold.

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Doug

Don't let fear or common sense stop you from trying to build something

Sounds a lot like me last August. Moved from an 80 acre farm to a .4 acre city lot. Fortunately the lot has a couple out buildings suitable for shop space once I finish insulating and getting heating and cooling inside. I'm still not done, it's a PIA but I think it will be great once done. I've got a temp repair shop going so that helps. Hopefully finish my wife's pottery studio this weekend then it's work work work till it's done hopefully by fall.

Moving is never any fun especially if you have been in a place a long time but you get to get rid of a lot of junk you never use anyway

Well I didn't move but I did build a small shop outside to house my power tools. Thank God I have heat and AC in it. Last winter I wasn't able to do anything because my inside shop is part of the house. So I have to keep dust to a bare minimum. Which is a good idea. In fact I'm working on dust collection in my new shop. I have a large shop vac which works somewhat but am improving on that. However Rome wasn't built in a day.


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I hate moving... best of luck!

I'm stuck in a house-overhaul project. We had a bad wind/rain storm tear our roof half off and backed up the gutters into the house wrecking several ceilings and leaving us with a really great stink! Had to remove all the siding and a lot of insulation. Also had to replace a lot of ruined sheathing and have to replace most window sills and all the window and door trim. Oh... yeah, and I have to totally re-side the house as well. There seems no end to it!

Oh...Did I mention the rotted wall sills and the carpenter ant damage???
<groan>

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

Looks like your ready& need and need a new life!
Anything you need from down here ?
Just let me know my friend.

Take care & keep in touch please.

Do you still have X-Caliber?

Thanks for the great woods & service you
provided over these many years.
And the friendship !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Old Mikey

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Mike Collins

Welcome to Edmonton! I hope you enjoy it here, I've enjoyed it for the last 9 years since moving here from NB.

Don, that totally sucks!! Wish I was closer I would give you a hand, that is a LOT of work! Best of luck as you move through that.

Mikey! I think we are good. I just packed blackie and x-caliber the other day and look forward to the day I can get the boxes together for this sets,likely a few years off yet as I need to finish off a few guitars before I work on those sets. I will indeed be in touch. I am looking forward to setting up shop and being able to just build guitars without worrying about how many top sets I need to process and ship this week.

Logan, we are in Edmonton right now looking for houses and should be moving here middle of next month. It will be winter/spring before the workspace is set up but by then I will be looking forward to networking with the Edmonton/Calgary luthiers.

Thanks all for the encouragement!

Shane

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Canada

Nice packing!

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StuMusic

Fellows I know your in beautiful country up there in the great northern wilds. I'm not jealous however but it sounds as y'all enjoy that cold weather. Me? I'm a born and bred California boy. Now living just outside Nashville Tennessee. So it gets cold here too. Last winter it got down to nine degrees F. Enjoy fellas.


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Don, sorry to hear about your woes...sounds like a fire would have been welcomed.