We are building a single manual Flemish harpsichord from a Zuckermann kit, version XV. A friend of a friend had the kit for several years without making much progress on it, and when he decided to move to Italy for a year he realized he and "Harpsy" had to part ways. So we bought it from him this past August and put 'it' - really lots of pieces of wood and the carcass - in a pile in our living room.
For a bit we considered renting an art studio space or workshop space in which to build it, but couldn't find anything online and didn't really want to spend the money - so we stuck to our original plan: build it on our dining room table. Now building a harpsichord from a kit supposedly takes about 150-200 hours so this is no small commitment to make for our 1-bedroom apartment. Fortunately we have the help of our cat, One-Eyed Jack, who has a new interest in woodworking.
We un-piled the harpsichord to find the 4-foot hitchpin rail had already been glued in (I'll admit the paragraph in the instruction manual was a little vague about just fitting it and not gluing). So the next step would have been to start in on the soundboard, but it was raining out - too much moisture in the air.
So this weekend we tackled the stand: what you put the finished harpsichord on. The pieces are all already done, just sanding and gluing needed. We sanded all the turned legs and then had to sand down the tenons to get them to fit; some required trimming the edges. Then we glued the joining surfaces and clamped it all together. 
