In describing how the curvature of the bentside was laid out, I mentioned that the bentside shape had to be corrected at the tip of the instrument. I managed to do so by nudging the far end of my plastic strip (shown in an earlier photo below) about an inch to the right, and then I traced out the final position of the bentside parallel to the strip and 95 mm to the right. I also drew a line parallel to the left side of the instrument at a distance of 185 mm. At the point where my bentside curve encountered this straight line, the bentside ended and a straight line angling leftwards at 40 degrees defined the tail of the harpsichord. Where this line met the left edge of the baseboard denoted the final length of the instrument, which worked out to 2245 mm (about 88.5"), just a whisker off from the original 2242 mm.
Then it was simply a matter of taking the baseboard outside and sawing out the curve with a jigsaw. I smoothed the edge with a file and let my mother, who has a good touch for sanding, clean up the edge even further:
The finished product:
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