The harp kit is here!

If you know me, you are aware that I am quite obssesed with folk harps and realy want to build one. Well, my little dream of three years is now in the making, Baruch Hashem :)
I am building a wire strung lap harp from Musicmakers http://www.harpkit.com/
It's going to have a walnut body and an aircraft birch soundboard.

The kit arrived a few hours before Shabbos, this is what it looked like:






















I checked to see that all the soundchamber parts fit together:






















Motzaei Shabbat I called around to see who has a drill, Michael is going to save the day :)
Since I'll only get a drill tommorow I figured I might as well work a little on the soundboard. So I sanded the soundboard and its reinforcment bar and glued them together, like this:

I figured I can use a small square brush to spread the glue. That worked well.

Brian Rosen and Steven Rosenberg were very nice and let me use some clamps. I borrowed the wooden blocks from my kids (kids are very generous after you make them a triple delux banana split).

I'm probably making a million mistakes, but so far so good!