Get a bottle neck for the open tuning! Put it on a finger and away your go. Probably best to put the bottle neck on either your ring finger or your middle finger. I have seen both. You will need to mute the strings behind the bottle neck so as to keep that noise from sounding.
You should be able to have some fun with that without hurting your self too much. Some people enjoy open tunings so much they never come back to standard tuning.
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