neck

Ahh... it's been a while since I posted. but as you can see in this hideous photo I finished cutting out the neck-forepost and here I am gluing on the "neck knob." This will stablize where the neck attaches to the body of the harp.








Once the over all shape is cut and sanded I can draw my design on .....

And anoyingly repeat it all the way up both sides!

A couple of months ago I did this drawing as an idea of what I wanted the front of the harp to look like. I based it somewhat loosely on this ancient viking figure-head from the Osburg burial site.

Next I drew my variations over the plans, cut them out and traced them onto a piece of 1 1/8" cherry

I'm conecting the neck and forepost with a mortise and tendon joint. Here the tendon is half finished. In the second picture I'm cutting out the mortise slot.


The joints are finished and glued.

bindings

I wanted to use ebony for my edging strips, but it was really expensive. I wanted something darker than walnut, so I finally found some ..... zim-something zam.... some mexican hard wood that started with a Z, anyway it was dark and cheap. Clamping this on was fairly easy, though I forgot to take pictures of the process.



Here is the box with the binding pieces glued in place but not sanded yet.
I'll try to post a picture tomorrow of the finished sanded box.