Every Blues Strumstick includes our great Built-in Pickup*.
The Blues Strumstick sounds fine unplugged, and when you send it to an amp, dial in a little bass and a little grit, oh my! Blues Heaven!
More Details: The BL-31 is a shorter scale length than the D-33, and we are using lighter strings too, so bending the strings for a true Blues effect is really easy. We are setting the action up nice and low, so you can over-play the strings and get some funky acoustic grit accenting if you want to. Padouk neck and body, Spruce top and Maple back.
I am having so much fun playing the prototype, I'm neglecting my other responsibilities. We will have some get-started instructions for it (if I can just put it down and do some writing!) Suffice to say, we should have made this years ago, but we are making it now, and it's a blast!
*About our pickup: its a piezo pickup by Schatten, custom designed for the Strumstick.1/4" standard jack, and no pre-amp required. We recently delivered a regular D-33 with pickup to Amy Grant at a venue on her tour (she was writing with an unamplified one and wanted one with a pickup for on-stage). She plugged it in at the soundcheck and the whole band was blown away by the sound. We recommend lowering the treble a bit, and increasing the bass a bit, and adding a little tasteful reverb, just for starters. You will be amazed too!

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