Gluing on the Sharps
Now it’s time to glue the sharps onto their keysticks. Remove all of the natural keys from the keyframe leaving only the keysticks that will have a sharp glued to them. Place a piece of wood across the rear of the keyboard and weigh it down with a weight (in this case a heavy drill press vise) so that the keys cannot move up or down. Back in Chapter 1 of this project we drew the keyboard on the keyboard blank. At that time, a line (Line JK) was drawn on each key to show where the rear of the sharps should go. Now we’ll use that line to position our sharps. Take a straightedge and clamp it right on this line. We will glue on our sharps so that their rear surfaces touch the straightedge thereby assuring that they will be even and in the proper position on the keysticks.
