It was finally time for the scariest part of the hurdy gurdy build. Bending the top plate of the body. I placed a short wood piece along the length of it and tie long cable ties around it. The whole thing was then placed in water for about four days, while continuously tightening the cable ties every now and then.
I could then glue it to the body with lots and lots of glue clamps. I did a dry fitting first to figure out where to place clamps and how to get it to be placed correctly.
The bent piece of plywood is glued on the top of the body of the hurdy gurdy. There are twenty small glue clamps all along the sides of the body. There are more clamps sticking out of holes in the top plate. There are bigger clue clamps in the corners of the body.
The bent piece of plywood with the cable ties and masking tape removed lying on a table. It isn’t quite as bent now.
The bending is done, and the plywood top plate is lying on a table. It has masking tape on the edges, and cable ties still around it, and it is noticeably bent. Behind it is the body of the hurdy gurdy waiting to have the bent plywood piece glued to it.
The top piece of the hurdy gurdy body tied together with seven large cable ties around three pieces of wood along the length of the plywood. It is placed in a plastic bin filled with water covering the plywood piece.
