Dulcimer sides

[Jim McConkey]

I make a variety of instruments and don't specialize on any one (well, dulcimers if anything), so versatility is necessary. But the instruments I build are all very roughly the same size. The same principle would work for guitar sides, but they are wider, and the tallest normal sanding cylinders are only about 3", which is too short. In general, I build most everything by hand, and only rarely use power tools, but there are plenty of other useful jigs that people who do use constantly. There are plenty of examples in the Tools discussions and in the our Library.