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.
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