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Thank you for writing this article. As a technician who has shifted to pro work nearly exclusively, it's difficult to work on student model instruments, now. I've struggled with wanting to pursue preciseness in all my work knowing that I'm wasting time in the realm of student models. However, they can be an opportunity to try a technique I may want more experience on. Currently, I think I'm at the cusp of not doing any more student level work.

My main struggle is the price differences of professional to student work. I'm still figuring out how much time to estimate when adding key fitting and tone hole leveling and improving the mechanisms, etc... I'm still not sure I'm charging enough.

I enjoy your articles and I look forward to meeting you one day.

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