Cool Tool - The "U2" Pick

New Cool Tool Video...

Cool Tool - Squier Bass VI

The Bottle Cap as a Pick

Spider Capo Video #1

The Spider Capo

Just picked up a Spider Capo at the NAMM show. It's pretty dang cool. I'm going to do a video for it soon. So stay tuned.

Cool Tool - Square Neck Dobro

Stevens-like Bar

Shubb Dobro Capo

Jerry Douglas Dobro Technique 

Some Square Neck Dobros/Resonators to check out...

(I'm not necessarily recommending these)

Rogue

Regal

Epiphone

Gold Tone

Gretsch

Recording King

Cool Tool - Resonator Guitar

The Gretsch Roundneck Bobtail Resonator guitar

Cool Tool - The "African" Guitar

Bought a used Squier Tele for $119 and turned it into an "African" guitar. Same tuning, just put a skinny string (.009-.012) in place of the fourth string.

Tuning - E, A, D (up octave), G, B, E

Just the D string is changed.

Voicings played in the video...

xx5555 - Am7 (Ukulele tuning)
xx0212 - D7, xx4535 - D7, xx7778 - D7, xx10111010 - D7
x5423x - D, x10978 - G, x1211912x - A
xx0232 - D, xx0433 - G, xx0655 - A4

Cool Tool - Jerry Jones Electric Sitar

Jerry Jones doesn't make guitars anymore. Bummer. Rogue doesn't seem to be making them either. Must not have been a big seller. Check eBay.

Cool Tool - 1940's Kay "Archtop"

Me and my Kay Archtop in Gangster Squad

Cheap Guitar God - Stella

Made by the Oscar Schmidt Company originally. Played by Leadbelly and Charlie Patton. Doc Watson and Kurt Cobain started on Stellas.

Cool Tool - Tremoloa

This cool tool is from the Manufacturers Advertising Company in Jersey City, New Jersey. Yet it's a Hawaiian instrument in it's use.

Cool Tool - an Oud

This is an introduction to the Egyptian Oud.

Tuning low-to-high: d gg aa dd gg cc (11 strings)

Here's where I got mine.

Cool site about oud and middle eastern scales.

Here's one like mine...
Egyptian Deluxe Oud w/ Soft Case & CD & Oud Pick