Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Case moldings: Upper outside edge

The upper outside case molding, glued on along the outer bentside edge:



Lots of clamps were used: the little ones aren't very strong individually, but in quantity they get the job done just fine.

Next, the cheek and nameboard moldings:


Finally, the spine molding:


That's it for this batch. Now the same thing will be applied along the upper inside edges.

2 comments:

Bartkowski Joris said...

Hi,

I'm joris, 20 years old guy. I'm french and like you i'm making an italian harpsichord (grimaldi 1703) !

I have take pleasure to read and follow you in your different constructing steps. Nice job ! Good luck, it's very difficult.

You can see my work on :

http://bartkowski-clavecin.blogspot.com/

If you have any questions on my works, no hesitations !

Best regards. (excuse me for my english...:) )

Joris.

Harpsichord Maker Dave said...

Love seeing your work. Thanks to you and others who have taken the trouble to show their work and explain the fundamentals of making an instrument for making beautiful music. Keep it up!