I finished the baseboard-level moldings about 10 days ago and have moved on to the moldings that go along the inside and outside edges of the top of the case. These are identical in profile to the baseboard moldings except they aren't as wide. The same molding will be used both along the inside and outside edge, so I ran off two identical batches.
After these are installed, I'll make a cap molding that glues down flat on top of the sandwich made by the inside molding, the case side and the outside molding. This will need to be just bit wider than the combined thickness of all three components that it covers in order to achieve an overlap and a pleasing reveal.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
Case moldings: Bentside
Happy New Year to however many people are still reading this blog.
Things got quite busy since my last post, and a large number of concerts descended on me for the last two months of the year. After all that music I felt I needed a holiday, so I'm finally resuming my work on the harpsichord at long last.
At this point I have applied moldings to the cheek, the front and along the spine almost to the tail. The strips from which these moldings are made are a bit shorter than the spine, so a single piece of molding will not suffice to cover the spine all the way from keyboard to tail. Leaving the spine for the time being, I turned my attention to the bentside molding, which I steam-bent to shape. It didn't quite bend far enough to conform perfectly but I was able to muscle it into place using various clamps:
I devised the clamp shown below to help apply heavy pressure where necessary:
By nailing the clamp to the baseboard and screwing down the screw, much more clamping force is applied than I can typically get from my other clamping blocks. The picture directly above shows the clamp in use during an earlier phase; you might be able to see two of them applied along the bentside in places where I needed to bend the molding forcefully.
The tailpiece and the last part of the spine still remain to be done. Then, I start all over again with the moldings along the upper part of the case. Lots more to do still...
Things got quite busy since my last post, and a large number of concerts descended on me for the last two months of the year. After all that music I felt I needed a holiday, so I'm finally resuming my work on the harpsichord at long last.
At this point I have applied moldings to the cheek, the front and along the spine almost to the tail. The strips from which these moldings are made are a bit shorter than the spine, so a single piece of molding will not suffice to cover the spine all the way from keyboard to tail. Leaving the spine for the time being, I turned my attention to the bentside molding, which I steam-bent to shape. It didn't quite bend far enough to conform perfectly but I was able to muscle it into place using various clamps:
I devised the clamp shown below to help apply heavy pressure where necessary:
By nailing the clamp to the baseboard and screwing down the screw, much more clamping force is applied than I can typically get from my other clamping blocks. The picture directly above shows the clamp in use during an earlier phase; you might be able to see two of them applied along the bentside in places where I needed to bend the molding forcefully.
The tailpiece and the last part of the spine still remain to be done. Then, I start all over again with the moldings along the upper part of the case. Lots more to do still...
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