"An Torman Mòr" - Baritone Acoustic Lap Slide Guitar

As the proud owner of a Dave White lap slide guitar my 'Red Kite', the only guitar I can play now, I can tell you all that this will sound superb. Some of you may remember that Dave kindly offered to make the Red Kite for me after I suffered an accident which resulted in me losing the top joint on three fingers of my left hand, putting my 45 years of guitar playing to a end.  An act of pure kindness from a good friend.  Mind you at 60 he's only a wee bairn.

Colin

Sorry to hear about your accident Colin and the guitar does looks very nice indeed from the photo At one time I had severe left wrist problems and I thought the lap slide would be the way to go.

Dave to the rescue though and things look good

Phil

Wow!
And, you can play music on the other side with it as well!
K

that truly is a little bit special!

My standard rosette design these days is a central ring of the same wood as the back/sides flanked by inner and outer purfling rings using the same purfling as on the rest of the instrument. So let's do that here. First route out the inner and outer purfling rings using the circle cutting jig:





Then glue in double rings of black/ pear/ black purflings using pva glue:



When the glue dries scrape/sand back flush:



Note how the central English Walnut ring's grain perfectly matches the top - how clever is that I love it when a plan comes together

This is going to be a monster! Looking good Dave!