Building A Mountain Dulcimer

Made with Aloha Spirit for my Brother TDan
Documenting building a dulcimer from the Folkcraft plans. Links to all of the stuff below for reference.

My brother asked if I could build a dulcimer with a Nordic Viking theme. He provided the plans, wood, and hardware. This was my second dulcimer build. It was a fun challenge to carve a dragon for the headpiece. The design and illustration for the dulcimer body were inspired by a couple of books I have on Viking history and art.
Play it loud 🙂

All of the links are here. Not an affiliate at this time.
Plans - https://www.folkcraft.com/products/ho...

Tuners - https://www.folkcraft.com/products/op...

Wood - top
https://www.stewmac.com/tonewoods/sho...

I made the sides from the cedar remnants I had in the shop. Here is a link to similar cedar wood from StewMac:
https://www.stewmac.com/tonewoods/sho...

The dulcimer back is mahogany similar to this guitar wood from Luthiers Mercantile. Original source is no longer available. You can use guitar wood for dulcimer builds:
https://www.lmii.com/239-honduran-mah...

Strings -
D'Addario EJ64 Mountain Dulcimer Strings - .012-.022
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/deta...

Books - Viking Art
https://www.wob.com/en-us/books/james...

I refer to this guitar building book a couple of times during the video.
Acoustic Guitar Making: How to make Tools, Templates, and Jigs
by Brian Gary Forbes:

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/acousti...

Thanks to Unsplash artists for the photos
Ship background - Photo by Steinar Engeland on Unsplash

Viking heads - Photo by Paolo Chiabrando on Unsplash

Keep Rocking
Talk Later,
Ray