Master of Strings: DulcimerForge

We need to develop a web application for a workshop that handcrafts mountain and hammered dulcimers and other traditional stringed instruments. The foundation is a build order configurator: the customer selects the instrument body, wood species for soundboard and neck (spruce, walnut, cherry, figured maple), number of string courses, tuning (DAD, DAA, chromatic), inlay and finish and immediately sees price and build time. Each order opens a build card with stages—wood selection, soundboard bracing, fret installation, string tensioning, final tuning—and photos that the customer follows on the queue page. A separate repair intake stream lets the owner describe a crack, fret buzz or loose tuning peg, upload damage photos and get an estimate before shipping the instrument. The manufacturing queue shows each customer their position and expected completion date, and a waitlist collects interest in limited seasonal wood batches. Added to this is lesson booking with calendar and slots for beginner and advanced, plus a shop for sheet music, spare strings, cases, tuning keys and capos. We need clean catalog pages, secure payment, an admin panel for queue and inventory management, notification emails at each stage and responsive design that beautifully showcases the grain of each instrument. Deliverable: source code, deployment and brief project handoff.