The Diddley-Bow.. "...Grandfather of all blues guitars!..."

Since this has only one string, you can call it a Diddley-Bow, a truly ancient instrument of African origin, widespread and well-used in the southern United States a long, long time ago. Simple as they get, yet very expressive!
"...The grandfather of all blues guitars!..."

A buddy of mine assembled this CBG and sent it to me to arrange the final result to my own taste. Good cooperation, I think ..
I'm calling it: The Kicking Mule Special..

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[dedicateddad]

Sir,

You've left me speechless - ask anyone who knows me, that's a FEAT!

Now I've got to build me a 'lectrificated diddley-bow too!!

[BottleneckJohn]

@dedicateddad

Thanks for the comment!! Good luck with your own Diddley-bow, bro!

[MrMdevaney]

great playing great voice ,im gettin me a diddley bow

[BottleneckJohn]

@MrMdevaney

Thanks!

[briish17]

what are you useing for the slide?

[BottleneckJohn]

@briish17

A broken off bottleneck.

[DrAntonPhibes]

pure GENIUS !!!

[CubeableGame]

The diddley bow is awesome, but the real star of this video is your voice! Man, I'm blown away! How did you learn to sing so well?

Gus

[BottleneckJohn]

@BaddMuzic

Thanks for watching! Always good to hear that you can find inspiration here!

[BaddMuzic]

Fantastic! I've just built a few myself, You are an inspiration.

[BottleneckJohn]

@ihazafunny

It's a 0.58 nickel string.

[BottleneckJohn]

@raveyard

THANKS!!