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Permalink Reply by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars on February 3, 2011 at 2:41am

Gotta love that Micro Cube, it makes my guitars sound good.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on February 3, 2011 at 3:19am

A short piece of copper tubing, deburred with some sandpaper makes a good slide that is probably a little lighter than a chrome socket. I found some 24 inch pieces (I think they were 3/4 inch diameter) at Home Depot and I cut them to length with a hack saw.

 

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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on February 3, 2011 at 4:06am

Port wine bottles due to their thicker glass make nice slides. Enjoy.

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Permalink Reply by uncle Lou on February 3, 2011 at 9:14am

I like the old coricidin  bottles.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Werner on February 4, 2011 at 4:14am

Ask a hundred slide players....  

I kind of like copper myself for my cigar-box guitars.  However, I converted a cheap six-string into a "dobro" of sorts and I like the heavier glass slide on this; it wears medium-gauge strings and the light copper slide doesn't seem to work as well.

 

I've been fooling around with slide mandolin as well, and I use a very short piece of copper for that, only about an inch long.   Anything else seems too bulky.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Hunt on February 4, 2011 at 5:41am

I use a 5/8 inch deep socket a lot for a slide, but I cut the heavy connection end off with my metal cutting band saw. This shortened it a little and lightened the weight a lot. Defiantly one of my favorite slides.

 

Brian Hunt.

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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on February 4, 2011 at 6:04am

Good idea cutting the socket to lighten it a little bit. Would make a nice slide. I believe John Hammond uses a full socket. No disrepect to him, but personally I think he is way too sloppy and sounds like he playing with a brick. I don't mind a little dissonance, but the bulk of the playing should be it key. Enjoy.
Brian Hunt said:

I use a 5/8 inch deep socket a lot for a slide, but I cut the heavy connection end off with my metal cutting band saw. This shortened it a little and lightened the weight a lot. Defiantly one of my favorite slides.

 

Brian Hunt.

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Permalink Reply by Brian Hunt on February 4, 2011 at 10:14am

Hi Keni,

 

I tried playing with the socket by itself before I cut it and I really found it to be too tip heavy. After cutting it, I found it to be about right. It is a heavier slide than my glass bottleneck slides, but I find it works great and the weight allows me to lighten up the pressure I use on the strings and let the slide do a lot of the work.

 

Brian Hunt.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Mongo_Slade on February 5, 2011 at 3:55am

a hambone

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Permalink Reply by Mark Werner on February 5, 2011 at 5:45am

The coolest slide I recall hearing of had to be a lady's high-heeled shoe tossed up on stage during a ZZ Top concert....

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Permalink Reply by tal bluver on February 7, 2011 at 8:48am

hi  man

I started to expirement with some bottles

I'm using power multi tool to cut the glass

here some of the results:

from the right: wine bottle, regular slider, uzo bottle (greek drink)

this is a "stella artois" 1/3 beer bottle- its too large for a finger but its great for lap strumming.

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Permalink Reply by Tracy Tomlinson on February 8, 2011 at 11:35am

Looking good!!!! I'm on the hunt still. Found one nice wine bottle so far . I just got home from knee surgery so I'll have lots of time to work on it.


tal bluver said:

hi  man

I started to expirement with some bottles

I'm using power multi tool to cut the glass

here some of the results:

from the right: wine bottle, regular slider, uzo bottle (greek drink)

this is a "stella artois" 1/3 beer bottle- its too large for a finger but its great for lap strumming.

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