Walking Dead - Burtsbluesboxes

Cigar box guitars are very addicting!! You've been warned before venturing down that rabbit hole ;) They're actually the Grandad of the blues, many famous bluesmen got started on one, such simple but expressive instruments. Yes, slide guitar, no frets on this one, played with a handcarved bone slide and wood pick. These materials give a softer more mellow tone than say a bone or plastic pick and a metal or glass slide

Well getting as wasted as possible seems a good plan with the world gone to hell and overrun by the walking dead :p I love the way a cigar box guitar can tell a take all on it's own. Thanks EggsOntoast, now I'm hungry.

I'm sad Looperman has been taken over by urban producers so I've escaped to the swamp LOL! Thanks Cru, I need to fine tune this guitar a bit but really wanted to record it in time for Halloween.

You're right Joe, they always come back! But what exactly is dead? https://youtu.be/PkJFq9tNe8w The stupid ones are pretty slow and easy to outrun, it's the thinking ones you need to watch. I hear there's a thinking German zombie looking to collab on some cbg music ;) I seem to be pulled in other directions constantly lately. I was just trying out this new build when I thought I better record it because I probably won't get a chance to later, it does need some minor setting up still. I have a new string bass to record with too with another started.
I'm hoping this winter to get a break and record/write again. Just sat down to wind a custom pick up for someone and I get called into work, the new normal...

Good to see you around Bear :D To the swamps of Florida from the dry deserts of Arizona, quite the change! I hear the weather is crazy there being surrounded on 3 sides by ocean. If if helps I have a swamp in my yard :)Going well, I've been very busy in the cigar box guitar world lately, not so much time for writing, recording and interacting on here as I'd like, trying to change that. FatKnuckldeFreddy performed on a 4 stringer with the same set up at Maine's inaugural cigar box guitar festival this summer. I had to make one!! Even got him to sign this one at my last luthier show. I just made a 2 string 34 inch scale cigar box bass with another Boneshaker box and my own 2 pole handwound pick up, recording soon to come.

Hey Neo, thanks for starting the annual Halloween thread, it lit a bit of a fire under my ##### to get recording. Thought you were smart buying those discount batteries again huh? I never really got down the delta blues on my 6 stringers, seem to have nailed it taking up slide on these homemade guitars. More to come don't die too soon!!

Exactly, more of a creepy somber atmosphere, after all the Zombies have won. This is what I love about cigar box guitars, alone they're so expressive. A little delay and reverb just to dress up the sound a bit. This thing has a hell of a crunch distorted!

Thanks Jamid, it's basically just a test run, soundtest trying out a newly built guitar. It needs a little fine tuning still (and a bit more practice as I usally play on a 3 string with lighter gauge strings) but I'm happy with it. Ethereal is a good word, I was thinking of a burned out post apolacalyptic wasteland with a lone survivor seeking shelter traveling along a dirt road just out of range of the zombies nearby but within earshot. I wanted to be sure I got something up for the Halloween thread this year! More to come. Off to check it out now :D

So your a school teacher, I'm an elementary school custodian, I see the apocalypse!! Thanks Danke, I just finished the guitar Saturday so I could bring it to a luthier show Sunday where I was one of 2 cigar box guitar luthiers showing. Talk about raw that's why I called it lo fi ;) its strung with the lower 3 strings Earnie Ball Mammoth slinky 12 gauge, I have to look to tell you the exact string gauges used but its like 100 on the bass 62 on the E 52 B and 48 E, strung heavy for that bone rattling bass. Wait til you hear it distorted.