Danish Cookie Tin Guitar Led Zeppelin cover In My Time of Dying

[OIeanderScrim]

Is it odd that I prefer this guitar's sound to an actual guitar? Especially with those kick-ass slide blues. Damn, that's fly.

[Tanis350]

Does it matter if some one is fat? you guys need to grow up

[AnonymusHippopotamus]

your missing some frets

[MagicalSunrise1984]

really cool!

[hevytrain12]

@MagicalSunrise1984 as a cucumber!

[brendanmcginty92]

haha your a plump lil goblin arnt you

[hevytrain12]

@brendanmcginty92 that I am

[WhutThePhuq]

i feel like im playing fallout ha!

[hevytrain12]

@WhutThePhuq Okay...who is this?

[WhutThePhuq]

@hevytrain12 does it matter? lol, im just another youtuber who finds random ass thigns and likes to comment on things, the sounds and the way you, or whomever played reminded me like i was playing fallout

[hevytrain12]

@WhutThePhuq ....creepy....my band in the 1980's was called Fallout. I thought my past might have caught up with me!

[WhutThePhuq]

@hevytrain12

haha no shit?, thats hilariously ironic. :D totally mis-interpreted you, terribly sorry lol :P

[Tyrgaroth]

@hevytrain12 Lol :D Fallout :D is a game

[kauhenriquebass10]

Dá pra tocar e comer biscoito ao mesmo tempo.

[viewmore100]

Sounds like shit !

[hevytrain12]

@viewmore100 Sounds like a cookie tin...

[CultOfTheGuitar]

That would sell on ebay

[hevytrain12]

@CultOfTheGuitar I actually did sell that one on Ebay

[yenbadcito]

cool man!

[hevytrain12]

@yenbadcito Thanks!

[SpiralishCandy]

Awwwesome!

[hevytrain12]

@SpiralishCandy THHHHHHHAAAANKS!

[ufoengines]

Very Cool, play dim blues.

[hevytrain12]

@ufoengines Hyep

[HASSSELMARK]

Det var dog fantastisk! :-)

[hevytrain12]

@HASSSELMARK Tack!

[Fieldhouseuktube]

this guy looks like the fat guy craig from Malcolm in the middle. niiice.

[hevytrain12]

@Fieldhouseuktube I wish I was the fat guy from Malcom in the Middle...but instead I'm just a fat guy

[Fieldhouseuktube]

@Fieldhouseuktube at least you got a bad ass guitar mate!

[indieLimeyJT]

sounds like a Sitar

[hevytrain12]

@indieLimeyJT It does a bit. Most of the parts are metal so that's where the buzz comes from. Kind of gives it a drone string resonance like a Sitar.

[christian661199]

there is something awesomely hippie about you love it

[theconcreteguitar]

Fantastic guitar, its great improvisation, I have created a concrete guitar, if you have chance please visit my channel, I'm conducting a sound comparison test between my concrete guitar and a solid bodied wooden guitar, and would appreciate as much feedback as possible. Thanks!

[hevytrain12]

@theconcreteguitar Dude the concrete guitar is great! I need to find out more. Is it heavy?

[howebzar]

The force is strong in you sir....

[hevytrain12]

@howebzar Thanks!

[martin101jc]

Just be you man God bless

[hevytrain12]

@martin101jc God bless you!

[smagmauder]

How is the neck adjoined to the cookie tin? I'd imagine the string tension can be a problem for the tin.

[hevytrain12]

@smagmauder There is a block of wood in there to bolt the neck to.

[ask1962]

Sounds better than Jimmy Page ;-)

[philipthedude]

maby you should make a hole in the middle, so the sound can get in the tin and it would get louder :) it looks realy nice btw

[hevytrain12]

@philipthedude I have made a few with the sound hole. This was my second try. Thanks

[sydcarten]

more like a banjo than a guitar

don't you think?

[hevytrain12]

@sydcarten Actually there is such a thing as a Guitanjo... a 6 string Banjo tuned like a guitar.

[0022acc]

@hevytrain12 you mean banjitar?

[Anniesmycat]

thats amazing

[doodle9741]

this is great man! I love these home made cigar box and tin contraptions, they're a lot of fun too!

[hevytrain12]

@doodle9741 And easy to make.

[TarPaprShack]

Well I thought it was cool.

[hevytrain12]

@TarPaprShack As a cucumber

[duckiesv]

you've inspired me to make a 3 string danish butter cookie guitar, thanks!

[hevytrain12]

@duckiesv Put it on here when you do!

[gutenschneider]

Is there a truss rod?

[hevytrain12]

@gutenschneider yes, there is a truss rod

[himrmanimbob]

Sure he's fat. But it isn't his fault, your mum is the one making cakes for him every time he hits that.

[ozzylad71]

sounds a bit tinny....sorry

[hevytrain12]

@ozzylad71 lol! very punny

[eastrockaway11518]

Were dem cookies

[hevytrain12]

@eastrockaway11518 I eet dem

[4stringsandme]

Great job, you made me get my Uke out and play anyway !

[hevytrain12]

@4stringsandme Keep playing!

[olsongirl5]

Reminds me of the tenortrop. I have some tenortrope stuff at olsongirl5

Fun stuff!!

[hevytrain12]

@olsongirl5 What's a tenortrop?

[olsongirl5]

@hevytrain12 Cliff Edwards tenortrop. I have Yas, Yas, Yas and Dink's Song at olsongirl 5 done on it. It is a dobro wooden banjo from the 1920s endorsed by Cliff Edwards, Ukulele  Ike (later the voice of Jimney Cricket). Very cool! Picked mine up at a used musical instrument store in St. Paul. All beat up but very cool! Nice sound between guitar, banjo, and dobro guitar.

[hevytrain12]

@olsongirl5 Very interesting....I like it

[SirBobHaulk]

nice job

[hevytrain12]

@SirBobHaulk Thanks!

[glich150]

great bro from a chunker to a chunker into great music who cares bout these kids lol there all over utube telling all of us were fat and there generation (im 14 there younger) they are all little fattys anyway

[hevytrain12]

@glich150 Thanks man!

[kaskito]

May have been a crappy video you made in the kitchen but I love the old road blues sound... You might not be a luthier but you sure have some good creativity. Nice job.

[hevytrain12]

@kaskito Thanks!

[TheBluesBeggar]

Plans for some cigarbox guitars I've seen carry the neck all the way through the box so the bridge is actually anchored to the neck, + the box essentially wraps around it. Yet you'd loose the nice tin dobro sound a bit?

My first impulse was wood crafting needlepoint hoops or a ring of pvc pipe if you could find one big enough. But again your aiming for vibration too and they dead the sound some?

I wish I had your courage to make one. I love old delta blues it would be perfect.

[hevytrain12]

@TheBluesBeggar Dude. I just decided one day I would start making them. I use parts off of guitars my dad finds me at his flea market business. Not real hard at all. I do have a three string oar that I play sometimes. I was thinking of doing a Kashmir cover with one...either Kashmir or Jingle Bells. One or the other...

[TheBluesBeggar]

@hevytrain12

gee, I hadn't given it much thought but maybe I could find a bit better guitar cheap at a flea market. I only have a 1984 3/4 student harmony folk acoustic with some buzzing frets, and I've had to superglue gel the bridge.

You should record jungle bells and let me know so I can watch it! Its Christmas time after all.

[hevytrain12]

@TheBluesBeggar If you need some parts let me know and I will send them to you. I've got boxes of the stuff.

[hevytrain12]

@TheBluesBeggar I am also thinking of a 5 string Banjo to try.

I have some other garbage and music selections on my FB page. I am called Hevyman ...no a

[TheBluesBeggar]

@hevytrain12

"Friends don't let friends play the Banjo"

You lucky dog scoring all those old junk guitars for parts! I got a bunch of wooden cigar boxes from my local pipe tobbaccoo shop for a dollar a piece but don't have a neck or tuners... cool idea to scavenge one like that.

an idea? it might be crazy but could you do something with bracing from using a toliet flange in the tin... (seriously don't laugh) the flange would give you places to mount stuff and add rigidity?

[hevytrain12]

@TheBluesBeggar That's a great idea. I could use some other toilet parts to make it work..

[TheBluesBeggar]

I think that is very cool. it's a sort of a dobro slash cigarbox guitar. Perhaps you could tinker up a way to give it more durability looking at banjos. a cookie tin might be reenforced by some kind of bracing?

thumbs up big time for you!

[hevytrain12]

@TheBluesBeggar Thanks man. I was thinking that. The metal that they use for the tins is weak and only rigid when the lid is closed and I haven't cut any of it out. I was thinking of using some old guitar bracing I have...or maybe some aluminum angle stock...I am thinking of putting together a how to vid. Any suggestions?

[hevytrain12]

@abscoob The harmonic is always at the same place 1/2 of the length of the fret board (scale length) so it is easy even when you are guessing.

[wolfeman323232]

fairly easy to build??

[hevytrain12]

@wolfeman323232 Very easy. Took about an hour.

[wolfeman323232]

@hevytrain12 is the neck just attatched or strait through the tin? and would it be possible to make one without tuning pegs?? like one set in the standard tuning?

[hevytrain12]

@wolfeman323232 It is straight through because the tin is so flimsy. The neck and tongue are the only things keeping the guitar from falling apart. You need to pegs because of the instability.

[hevytrain12]

@hevytrain12 It's a through the body neck (Just a 2x4 plank). You can use tuning pins and you can do a standard tuning though it may not be as tinny.

[hevytrain12]

@wolfeman323232 Very easy to build. I think one day I will post a "how to" video.

[stalkermonolith]

Bloody cool! I'm amazed!!!!! You are great, master! Greetings from Hungary!

[hevytrain12]

@stalkermonolith Köszönöm! my family is Hungarian!

[stalkermonolith]

@hevytrain12 Nincs mit!!!! Nagyon királyul játszol!!!! :) Csak így tovább!

[Django5198]

Awesome! I also did a cover of this on a 3 string.

[hevytrain12]

@Django5198 Let's hear it! can you post it here?

[tmzecha]

Does it go to eleven?

[Vanguard448]

@tmzecha Because 'This Is Spinal Tap' references NEVER get old!

[dusthase]

what do you mean you can't play?

[mc20708]

i try and die easy

[hevytrain12]

" So I went ahead and made me a guitar. I got me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, take me a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I got me some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised it up high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got me a tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on."

-Lightnin' Hopkins

[flaphead325]

In my time of dying !

Fun video ! :)

[AZTEROIDx]

that almost look like a banjo

[hevytrain12]

@AZTEROIDx  actually more like a "canjo"

[AZTEROIDx]

@hevytrain12 hahahaha nice

[joshmiles09]

That was fucking epic!

[rpeek]

I think it's cool.. Thanks for sharing.

[GoldenbanjoDJ]

the danish biscuit tin - as useful in 'death' as it was in life!

[Django5198]

Great guitar! Playing was a bit weak to start off with but 0:27 was amazing!

[TheJK576]

that preaty good lokking and love da sond

[beergut66]

looks and sounds a hell of a lot better than the cigar box one i made.

[DreamOfWaking21]

Hey dude nice job! Did you make it? And dude ur not fat. Don't listen to these retarded teenagers who have nothing better to do than be douchebags. Your cool :)

[hevytrain12]

@DreamOfWaking21 Yes I made it in my basement

[0thargor0]

I like it, nice one man.

[hevytrain12]

Ok you guys...here's the deal:

1) This is something I put together in about an hour.

2) I am not...nor do I pretend to be a luthier

3) I am fat...I know because I look in the mirror every day.

4) I am not James Earl Jones but I am your father Luke

5) I used Ernie Ball Medium Slinky's

6) I've made around 6 or 7 of these. They all have tuning problems because the tin is thin and bendy.

7) I am amazed that 50,000 people looked at this crappy video I made in my kitchen.

[xx55AC55xx]

could u show us how to make one?

[chorridus13]

This one sounds tuned pretty well, nice slide sound

[theMansalad]

try a through-body neck and have the strings go throught the neck just using the tin as a resonator. That should fix tuning problems

[lanetxgp1]

@hevytrain12 I love you :)

[hazor777]

@hevytrain12 -HAHA! Thanks for the laugh!! Keep em comin !

[mayalani123]

@hevytrain12 Make VID HOWTO :D

[MyHeartBeatsRnR]

@hevytrain12 well said, but you forgot what your t-shirt says ;-)

[robechu]

how do u make the strings ring like that last note?

[JacobKingOfTheOzone]

its a natural harmonic,

they ocout on the 5th fret the 7th? and the 12th i think

[kclarke78]

5th 7th 9th 12th yup

[Ankerzeppelin]

@kclarke78 and you can get some around the 3rd fret.

[skaterzakk]

harmonics

[renzolikescheez]

lol in my time of dying! Thats awesome!

[persiasand]

try to have a proper family then by solving your problems.

[mymumhitsme1]

lmao i can't even remember what i said but whatever it was must have been bad :P

[stori11]

Shut the hell up and stop posting useless comments.

[mymumhitsme1]

@stori11

the funny thing is i can't even remember what i wrote

[axemanand]

Cool Guitar.

[plinthman]

Nice. What type of strings do you use? electric, acoustic, banjo etc?

[hevytrain12]

@plinthman Ernie Ball Slinkys

[tonyc329]

Sounds to me like it won't stay in tune for shit.

[ironbuttermilk]

would sound cool if you could play a little better. keep at it!

[vrba95]

Nice dude :D

[fuelban]

sounds like my child hood... MMMMmmmm love it...

thom.

[jordancayco]

sounds like a resonator guitar.

[skatesgood]

holy shit it does

[Angstedpunx]

it looks like Craig from Malcolm in the middle

[livingorexisting]

omg he does!

[trot21]

lol!!!

[XxvbrandonvxX]

lol he does

[hevytrain12]

@XxvbrandonvxX I wish I had his money

[MaxHBMS11Wh]

J'espère que vous n'êtes pas luthier ... L'homme qui à fait cette bouse devrais avoir honte !!

I hope that you are not a stringed-instrument maker... The man who in fact this dung should be ashamed!!

[hevytrain12]

@MaxHBMS11 Well....it looks like it has strings to me. Should i be ashamed that I took some trash and made music out of it?...maybe you should get out more.

[david1513]

i think that can be called a cantar not guitar like the canjo is simalure to a banjo, it does have a guitar neck wide six strings were as the canjo has three and four strings and longer neck and not as wide, my thoughts David

[hevytrain12]

@david1513 Yeah I would say Cantar although most I have seen have the can sideways and don't use the top of the can as a resonator. How are your Canjos coming? Do you have any videos?

[david1513]

@hevytrain12 no , no videos not good at it..! right now im not building its winter time here can get out side to cut pieces of wood, my last project was a japaness strum stick i was makeing it for cristal jackson it it was so good i had to keep it, ill build her another one as good i hope! only about one out of a hundred have that special sound, so look is not what its about it's sound, no two insterments sound the same ever,when you find one in any condishion grab it up hold onto it,, David*

[david1513]

@hevytrain12 i bought my own tool and machines, im not useing M Eli Jacksons tools now, i built eli's son a fine canjo i promissed him i would, i like building the long neck plectrum banjos, there four string collectors items,i just had mine played by my nefure wow the sound was grate, i can tune by ear but it's hard to beat a fine electric tuner there not that much to buy,$18 to $20 max, the plectrum can be tuned six differant differant ways..! as for the five string only one way,

[david1513]

M eli Jackson was a banjo and canjo and docimer builder he was a fine crafter of wood and builder of insterment, he has two adult childeren doris johnson and son joel jackson and second wife christal johnson if you type his name in your browser you will finds out more about him he was a master of insterment building, i am working with most of his tools now to build his canjos and some banjos im on my second banjo now the frist turned out great but if not for the insperation of m eli impossable

[david1513]

dobro is a banjo and a very exspencive banjo i mite add! by the way thats not a guitar its called a canjo! m Eli Jackson invented them while he was alive,

[butkatrello]

I would like more History

[ledviades]

you just got the esence of the blues fat bastard hahah

[goreri]

@ledviades why should you tell the man he's a fat bastard, he is just sharing his creation with us.

[DreamOfWaking21]

@ledviades hey guess what...fuck you

[ledviades]

this is totaly depressing hahaha

[hevytrain12]

@ledviades My dog gets depressed sometimes

[mkmstrings]

you "can't" play guitar? whatever dude!

[Theloniousfunkk]

In my time of dying, one of zeppelins under rated/under played/under listened songs

[Halopedian]

that's pretty cool! i wish i had the skills to make something like that

[psycho1516]

you dont realy need skills. just get a cookiecan, a piece of wood and some guitar snares =P

[hevytrain12]

@Halopedian the funny thing is you don't need any skills...hey if I can make one...

[ade2064]

the blues didnt start on $1000 plus dollar dobro's did it, it started on home made guitars from cigar boxes made by peasants with no money. thats the attraction, fool.

[hevytrain12]

@ade2064 Yeah I think I qualify...let's see...peasant...check...no money...check...yeah I'm good.

[emptymonkeyfist]

hurray for you

[hevytrain12]

@emptymonkeyfist Yippie for you

[timjmoran]

6557.. I think you MIGHTA missed the point.. the idea is not to try & sound like a

$5000 Dobro.. it's to show that a credible musical instrument can be made from simple materials.. one that has a unique sound. Your argument is the same as saying " a Yugo doesn't handle like a

Porsche"...This cookie tin guitar is really cool! I always wondered what this approach would yield.. very nice job!!

[butkatrello]

I've been mak'm for years now, to each his own!

[hevytrain12]

@timjmoran Cookie tin's available at your local Wal Mart...no waiting

[ilikescreaming]

music is music, if we can do it cheap, don't discriminate.

[faceman1995]

sick thanks for the info

[kode1303]

Danish cookies are good cookies! (as is so much other Danish stuff) ;-)

[dragonfitter]

danish bacon hummmm drooool

[butkatrello]

Just want to post?

[faceman1995]

how did you make this its awsome

[hevytrain12]

1) Eat cookies

2) remove paper

3) Bash the neck off of the $5 guitar you get at the thrift store

4) Get a block of wood

5) Get a bolt

6) Get drywall screws

7) Crank it all together