Pedal harp downscale to 1/12 from Canon Creative Park

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This is a downscale of the stock Canon Creative Park harp plans to 54%, which made it 6 3/8" tall, a shade bigger than 1/12 scale. I guess that makes the original plans ~1/6 scale. As the full size plan recommends 300+ gsm photo paper, I used 65# cover (165 gsm) paper, which worked out reasonably well, if anything a bit too thin for the task. Or maybe an art paper of the same weight would hold up better to shaping and gluing.

The harp's 17 strings (a full set on a real harp would be 47) are polyester thread on this smaller model, rather than string as the instructions have it. The string attachment tabs along the top piece get a little tricky at this size and paper thickness. Also, I used a knot through a hole to tie off the end of the thread, as seen in the close-up photo, rather than try to tie it around a flimsy little tab per the instructions.

The model is a little rough around the edges (literally), and I made a hash of the pedals. That said, the look from a couple feet away is decently nice! The inherent elegance of the harp shape along with all those parallel strings really make it.