I perfrom with three different stringed instruments, two of which are home-made...

The first is a Lowebow, designed and built by John Lowe of Memphis, Tenn... It is a cigar box with two 1 1/4 inch dowel rods for a neck... It has 4 strings... One bass string with it's own pickup and output and the other 3 on the .012 t0 .032 range with two pickups and their own output port... The nut is movaable and consists of short steel rod and a capo behind it... I particularially like this instrument becasue it looks like some kinda primitive toy until...

...it's plugges in and then "Katie bar the door" 'cause this home-made instrument is for real!!!

My other home-made is a slab of wood with a ncek, two handwound pickups and f strings... It was designed by me and Ted Crocker, who built it for me... During it's design and construction pictures made it around the internet and somehow cuaght the eye of Danny Glover who had two similar geetars built for his movie, "The Honeydripper"... BTW, Ted calls it the "Back Porcher"... Anyone who has been to my facebook has seen it 'cause it's in my official Facbook picture... BTW, PART B... This geetar plays and sounds as good as any Telie out there...

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