My Weissenborn-Style Lap Steel Guitar

This guitar is meant to be like a 1920s Weissenborn Hawaiian lap steel guitar

Top, back, and sides: Honduran mahogany
Fretboard, headstock front and back overlays: Cocobolo
Binding: Indian rosewood
Bridge: Ebony

I'm just learning to play lap slide; but I love this guitar.

Here's a wav file of me playing it a little.  Tuning is open-D (DADF#AD)

Weissenborn in Open D (7 MB)

Here's someone who really knows how to play one of these:

Cindy Cashdollar.  Listen to her talk about her 1927 instrument

and play beautifully on it.  Enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSYbIhzpXeY

Building a Weissenborn-style

The top	Headstock, slightly modified	Side form and sides
Gluing on the sides	Gluing on the back	Done except headstock back overlay
Done, except the bridge	Headstock without and with the back overlay.  It's an area of complicated joints	Gluing the bridge
The bridge	All done.  The finish is French Polish and not that great of a polishing job.
The side view	The headstock	The headstock