Today I added the first coat of polyurethane to the smaller pieces. I have to wait at least 12 hours between each coat, so it’s going to take a few days to finish them. Once those are done, I’ll start on the body. I want to wait until it has dried for a few days before I start adding coats to it.
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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.
Now the main part of the body of the hurdy gurdy is complete and it’s ime to stain it. After sanding everything I added a layer of walnut brown stain that I then sanded down again. Now it’s time to add the final stain color, which is going to be a lighter brown color.
The dark brown color of the body has been sanded down in preparation of the next layer of stain.
The body of the hurdy gurdy stained with a dark brown color.
Photo of the finished hurdy gurdy body. It’s still not sanded and there are marks left after some of the glue clamps.
I’ve stained the body with a light brown color. The test piece I did was a bit too light, making it almost orange, so I tried to leave more of the dark brown base coat. I’m going to add another coat of the light brown color tomorrow, and then I need to start adding coats of polyurethane. I’m planning on doing at least three coats, maybe four. And it needs to dry for 12 hours between each coat, so it’s going to take a while.
Today I added the first coat of polyurethane to the smaller pieces. I have to wait at least 12 hours between each coat, so it’s going to take a few days to finish them. Once those are done, I’ll start on the body. I want to wait until it has dried for a few days before I start adding coats to it.
I’ve added three coats of polyurethane to the keybox, keybox lid and some other parts. I hope that will be enough, it looks pretty thick.
I just added the first coat to the main body, and it’s starting to look really good.
Apparently it’s going to take two weeks for the polyurethane to harden fully. Since I’m going away to London for a few days next week that seems like good timing.
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