Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Fiddley Work



 I find myself working in spurts.  While I waited on the glue to dry, I cut a rough piece of what will become the tailpiece.  Whew!  Maple is tough stuff to cut by hand.

I left extra wood on the tail of the tailpiece.  It will be removed and shaped when I do a final measurement .





Sawing, sawing, sawing. 


This chunk of alder is being cut for blanks for keys.  The sides of the keybox will be cherry.  I'm using the alder for the keys (for now) because I had a chunk of alder and it seems to be workable.  Because the keybox won't be glued to the neck of the harpa, I feel I could always go back and make a new keybox.

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