The Journey of a New Comers' New Dulcimer

Hi All

After a month of lurking around the site reading tons of information and doing research I went ahead and found a copy of Kimball's "Constructing the Mountain Dulcimer", bought a few plans from Folkcraft to reference, and got to work designing and building my first "real-deal" dulcimers.  What follows is a record of my fist endeavor building this instrument, partly for my reference, and mostly for everyone's amusement. ;)