Mickey One

The body is 1 1/4 x 1 1/4 x 1/4 angle bar. The tuner is a 3/8 bolt with a stopnut on the back and an ordinary nut and lock washer on the top. The single string is .037 music wire, stopped by a 3/4 pipe slide, plucked by fingers or bowed and/or struck by a spike fiddle bow. It is amplified by a single Lollar-style spot pick-up . The stand is a rear axle from a Ford F-150.

Click to hear a sound sample of the instrument: Mickey One.