Mystic-Al

I spent the morning jigsawing. I cut up the old bedstead and it works perfectly. The weather was amazingly hot today so I glued the forepillar and the soundboard and left it in the sun to dry. This means that tomorrow I get to do the nice bit - staining and polishing and oiling. The head and forepillar get stained and polished with beeswax but the soundboard gets oiled and 'baked' in the sun (if we get any tomorrow). I managed to put the harp together tonight and got an idea of what it will look like. I can start to plan the decoration - no definite plans yet - I will get ideas from the grain and patina and start it tomorrow.