What are those brass rods called and do they come in diggerent thicknesses ? Awesome work!

Good job 👍👏👏👏

Also, I have seen in some of the videos, the braces are placed horizontally(unlike shown in your video where it is exactly below the bridge and glued with the sound board). Also a small gap is kept between the sound board and braces below the bridge. This is bit confusing for me. I will be very thankful if you could kindly suggest what is better.

Wonderful. Rarely you get to see videos with such minutest details. What a great masterpiece created with utmost precision and dedication. Being an Indian Santoor player and maker I know how much patience it requires. Would have still loved it more if there were few tips given about the material used, like types of wood and adhesives etc. Learned a lot of valuable things. Thanks😊 Great job 👌👌❤

Outstanding! I watched all eight videos on your building this beautiful hammer dulcimer. I will need to view them again a few times to pick up some of the nuances since I plan to make a dulcimer from scratch and never built one before. I may as well start on something difficult since that's the only way to learn. When I learned to do stained glass 45 years ago and turned into a business, my first panel was a very difficult one and I intend to do the same building a dulcimer. Now I am retired and looking for something to make with my hands that sounds as beautiful as some of my stained glass looks. Thanks for the inspiration.

Can anyone help me with tuning details for my Chernihiv Ukrainian Cymbali. I want to learn to play but cannot find details anywhere on Cymbali tunings as the instrument designs and bridges confuse me eyc. Any help would be appreciated. Mine is not the neck strap portable one, but approximately a metre long , has white binding, three removable legs and has string dampers too

Such an awesome videoseries of this wonderful instrument, thank you for taking the time and showing! It sound gorgeous. I've never seen a 5-string per note HD before. Own a Dusty Strings D25 from 1985, but that one has the usual 2-string per note arrangement :)

Beautiful work! May I ask what type of handsaw you use?

I really enjoy the calmness of this video. The way you edited is very nice. On to part 2!

is it possible to get plans for this dulcimer?

HI! I'm late to the party, but I've just recently decided to build myself a dulcimer and your videos are great - its exactly what I what to build. I see that you had paper versions of the plans. Where did you get those?

So cool! Must feel great to have accomplished your own instrument!

Looks good. I want to try to make one too, and yes, I have a bit experience in making instruments from scrap wood. But one important question: Where did you bought the strings?

Nice work! Ps.: if you bend down the overhanging part of the string on the tuning peg, you can roll the rest of the string on it. It will give some additional force to prevent to pull the string out. But you have to give a few mm extra for it.

a true luthier for dulcimer

Eight incredible videos! Congrats, that was awesome! 🙏🏻

Thanks for these informative videos. Im looking forward to making one soon. What are the things that you used to transfer the hole locations for the dowels from the frame to the pin block?

What if I say I would like to buy one?

Nice series! Beautiful sound at the end too.

I love it!(Este ceva unicat să faci un instrument începînd de la zero)i am still watching.Bon travaille.A bientot.

What size socket did you use to drill in your tuning pins? Zither pins right? Thank you!

verbally explaining would make the video more interesting ...

What is the thickness of the pin block? Thanks.

Thanks for the fantastic video, the instrument looks beautiful and your craftsmanship is very impressive. I am also building a dulcimer at the moment and interested in your use of linseed oil on the pin block, you mention it polymérises. I have used danish oil for lever harps it’s easy just takes a long time, do you know if danish oil behaves the same way, could it be used on pin blocks? There are at least twice the pins on a dulcimer as a harp, so it could be risky....

Watched them all! Sweet. Now my turn to build one.

when is part 2 coming out?

You use that hand saw like a sashimi chef wielding a knife!

I love these intros! This is so relaxing glad I found this channel.

Watched all the videos from beginning to the end. Your hammer dulcimer is definitely a beautiful instrument; a labor of love in what you do. Very impressive artistry to make one of these. I can't tell how many hours you have devoted to this instrument, but I would guess 100+ hours time. Great job!!!! Now that I've watched all the videos in one sitting, I gotta go pee after all the tea that is poured at the beginning of each. I had to follow suite and brew my own.

ANY of those cuts you could have done on your table saw - why not?

Very nice build! What kind of glue do you use for the wood? Ponal? Pattex? TiteBond?

i forget if i got this as an ad or if it was recommended, but holy moly! this was a really nice video! very relaxing, and very well edited, the camera angles were amazing also! keep up the good work!

👍👍Thanks for a nice and interesting video.

Amazing. Did you tune it so that the left bridge creates a minor 6th between the two sides??

When you say “high density birch ply”. Is that a special type of birch ply or is birch ply always high density.

well done!!! it was so much fun watching you create this unique instrument :-)

Just found your channel. I really appreciate these dulcimer building vids. Thank you for posting. What kinds of things do you mainly build? Dulcimers? Other instruments at all?

Amazing! will you make dampers for it also?

Nice job. I too build hammered dulcimer as well as mountain dulcimer. Where are you from? What country?

Hi, I play some kind of hammered dulcimer! and also wanna build it. Can you tell me how to 'locate' the braces depends on the position of bridges?

Your hands on circular saw... you crazy.