The painting continues

The various keyboard end pieces are all sanded, rounded, and painted black. I'll add another coat or two over the next few days.



The jackrail will also get gold leaf on the moldings, so I've added the yellow ochre undercoating there as well.

Preparing to paint

All the painting surfaces are now prepared with putty and primer, and the current business at hand is selecting paint. These are some of the candidates:



I mixed up a batch of the leading contender and put it on a test panel, which will soon get gold stripes as well.



All the moldings on the case now have an undercoating of yellow ochre, which will be overlaid with gold leaf.

Unhinged

The various lid and flap battens are now all attached, as shown here:




Once the battens were on, I was able to line up, drill, and affix the hinges.




Next up was the fallboard, which fits in front of the keyboard:




And now we're ready to putty all the little dings and scratches in the case, sand the whole thing, and then paint. Here's the puttied and sanded fallboard:




Painting will be a long process, but it's almost ready to start.