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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