Mountain Dulcimer Building

Trim, Sides and Back

Here I am bookmatching the 3 1/16" x 1/16" x 29 1/2" pieces for the back. The Donegal luck was with me on the bookmatch pattern.

Here the sides (which ended up at 5/64") are clamped to the mold to dry. I put the sides in the bathtub for a day and made a wee bracket to hold a hair dryer to the toilet bowl seat.

I had to slip the pins out of the hinges and take the door off the bathroom as I was down to my underwear after the first side because of the heat in there.

This is gluing the sides to the heel. The tapered pieces I cut off the heel, to match the curve of the sides, I used under the toes of the clamp to keep everything square.

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