I made the moldings with one pass of a small router bit along both edges of the few remaining Alaska yellow cedar boards that I have left, then ripped strips about 17 mm wide off the boards. The width was chosen with two considerations in mind: first, this is about the maximum I could fit into my little miter box, which has a limited clearance between the business end of the saw blade and the bottom of the box; and second, the width has to be sufficient to hide all the screws that secure the bottom edges of the case to the baseboard.
Seen end-on, the molding has this profile:
Before applying the molding along the front of the instrument, I attached a filler strip in the keywell area so that the shelving on which the keyboard sits won't be visible. The strip also keeps the keyboard from sliding out of the instrument.
Although this strip looks like a solid chunk of yellow cedar, it's actually made of several thin pieces glued around a scrap of softwood. The molding will overlap it slightly and hide the brown baseboard edge completely.
I've prepared the first few pieces of molding in the rough: the cheek, bentside and tail moldings exist as over-length pieces, and the bentside piece has been steamed and is currently sitting in a bending form so that I won't have to wrestle it into the correct curve while trying to glue it down. In a day or two it will be ready to glue.
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