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Permalink Reply by Wichita Sam on November 10, 2009 at 6:36pm

depends on the sound you're looking for... scratchy/grindy-go with metal (copper, brass).... for smoother, sweeter slides, go with glass, ceramic, bone.... I have gotten attached to my homemade bottle necks (different lengths for note-ing or chording)...

just some thoughts,
the best,

Wichita Sam

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Permalink Reply by Diydc on November 10, 2009 at 9:37pm

I am a brass user, my favourite is a rollover for the small finger which can be flipped away in one hand ovement when playing finger stuff, as it is open on one side and has arotating bearing to fit on the finger.
Matter of taste I suppose...

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Permalink Reply by Trevor (Babajack) steger on November 22, 2009 at 12:26pm

I like brass or glass 45mm long , glass from the wine botte necks , with the brass ones i like to dremmel a slot were my nuckle goes so there s no ride up when you bend your finger. oh and i like them tight.

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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on November 24, 2009 at 3:10am

My friend Greg at www.bottleneckstore.com made me a port wine bottle slide. I heard that these bottles are usually very thick glass. Greg told me the glass is different in that it tends to chip instead of crack. The slide is great. It is very heavy and thick, but not bulky.
The bone slides that are available at www.smokehouseguitars.com are cool too. For the longest time I wanted one after seeing Roy BookBinder use one. Fred McDowell learned from a relative how to fashion a ring sized one out of a steak bone.
I like metal too. The one I currently use was made by a company back in the 1970s called Mighty Mite. I read on the back of Sam Mitchell's Art of Bottleneck/slide guitar album (Yikes! an album, I guess I had this a long time) he used one. A few years ago, I searched on ebay everytime I went on. What a country! I found one.

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Permalink Reply by RETROROD on November 29, 2009 at 1:17am

I find that the heavier the slide the better. I make copper pipe slides to give away with a CBG purchase. The tone of these is a little muted...but adequate. My favorite is a short heavy chrome Dunlop and also a long heavy porcelain slide called a Mudslide. I have a variety of slides, including glass bottleneck. Each one is unique, just as each CBG is unique. I rarely use the term 'best'...Rod

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Permalink Reply by Roger Martin on November 30, 2009 at 7:00pm

We have now started offering brass slides to our line at our shop. Mostly because a lot of my customers want exactly what they see me using and I use brass most of the time..
Our price ranges now run from $3.00 for copper,$3.00 for a glass bottle ( empty Brandy) Emptied by me ,,,,,, of course,,,I like to sell the bottle full , then pop the top off and guzzle down the contents in front of the customer.After they all get a good laugh I explain that it was TEA I was drinking,
Brass sells for $8.00.

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