Installing the crown molding

 

Here the last of eight segments of crown molding have been glued and clamped to the font. The molding was made by hand using a variety of hollow and rounding planes. I approached this stage of construction with some trepedation, but the finished molding profile looks great. Pat self on back, move on. Yesterday I milled out the mahogony trim which wraps the underside of the upper section and hides the plywood bottom of the top stage. The splines which reinforce the end-grain to end-grain glue joints of the octagonal side panals show up clearly in this photo. The cap pieces for the bottom will also lap over and hide the splines. I glued on the last of these bottom trim pieces just before dinner last night. I will add a photo of that step after taking another batch of photos this morning.

 

In other news, Jessica successfully wrestled with the sizing constraints inherent in the programming behind my website, and added two new pages in the shop section showing a larger scale view of one of the  pages of my plans for an Ebeneezer Tracy Sack-back. Thank you Jessica.