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Blog Posts
- Painting finally begins
- Soundboard Installation!
- Installing the Rose
- The Soundboard
- Adding the hook to the 8′ cherry Bridge
- 8′ cherry Bridge steamed, bent, clamped
- Bridges and Nuts
- Color/Paper samples for Harpsichord
- Soundboard joined and fitted
- Finally some new Harpsichord work
- Building a Flute & Whistle Library
- A Guitar Foot Stool
Pau Hana ‘Ukulele
Boston Balalaika
Tag Archives: harpsichord building
Fitting the Lowers
Fitting the Lower Registers this past week was more than a bit challenging. The challenge presented itself when I discovered that the pinblock supports were too short.This is the original maple block, coming up 1/2″ short. The lower register needs … Continue reading
Harpsichord Registers (Next Phase)
After a bit of a summer break for relaxing, vacations, and stuff like that, I’ve finally gotten back to the harpsichord to try to get the registers finished. The upper and lower registers are all cut and are now being … Continue reading
Register Cutting Jig
There has been rather a long pause in the building process as I had to take some time off. I moved the harpsichord back down to the workroom after being in storage (in the corner of my dining room) for … Continue reading
Beginning the Registers
The registers are part of the heart of a harpsichord. As such, they must be very precisely built, to the thousandths of an inch. I printed out the upper registers template. This required lots of trial and error in getting … Continue reading
Case Liners, Braces, Stiffener and Pinblock
These activities went on for about a month in June, 2011. I had to replace a poplar plug in the side of the case that came out during a previous session and planed it smooth. Then I installed the bentside … Continue reading
Tools, Finishing the Case, Nameboard
More tools are required, and although I don’t need some of these for quite some time, I like to take a break from the main building to do these little projects. I turned two maple handles on the lathe to … Continue reading
The Bentside and the Bottom
Continued fairing the first side of the bent-side jig. The first side is extremely close to the drawing. I used the first side as a guide for the 2nd side, then cut the 2nd side out, screwed both together and … Continue reading
CAD Printouts
Spent some time measuring the full size plan CAD printout only to discover it was off by a small amount. Then I had to spend quite a bit of time communicating and straightening out the CAD misprint problem. Finally got … Continue reading
Completing the Harpsichord Keyboard
Cleaned up the key frame, installed the green action felt and red felt punchings. Afterward realizing that once I installed the felt on the keys, it would cover up the key numbers and names, so wrote the numbers and note … Continue reading
Continuing progress toward a complete keyboard
Glued on all of the key heads and the tails to the key sticks, sanded and flushed all the edges, including the arcades to ensure that all parts are smooth and line up. Leveled all of the key heads and … Continue reading