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sliders! show us your slides :)
Hi there sliders,
Show us a pic of your slides! L-R: Dunlop 222 brass slide - never use it Double cut real bottleneck - origin unknown Diamond Bottlenecks Original - longer version DB Mike Dowling Signature DB Original - shorter version DB Ultimate in Ruby Prism What are yours? |
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Seven from Diamond Bottlenecks - two Blue Diamond, one Redhouse and four Evolution I think. A Daddy Slide Phosphor Bronze in front and a Wolfram behind on the left, don't remember which, but not the one that costs a fortune. Plus coffee and a capo. Some days my favourite is the Daddy Slide, some days, today for example, it's the darker DB on the right.
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Magnum bottleneck
I cut this one from a magnum champagne bottle with a wet saw
It's about 5/16" thick in some spots. It's got the perfect bottle glass texture with tons of mass to control the fundamental tones from the heavy string sets I use on my electrics and acoustics. Plus, it is concave, so I can catch all six strings with no added pressure on the center strings. I put a small piece of felt inside for grip. Regards, Howard Emerson
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My mistake, I got mine wrong.
Diamond 'evolution' slides are one side glass, one side steel, and mine are definitely not, they are the lead crystal glass 'ultimate' type. Hey, at least I worked out how to post a photo!
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Still cool Joe! My Ultimate seems to the winner for me right now. I prefer the double cuts and the Ultimate is a little heavier than the others.
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Okay, I'll play. Here's what I could find around home. My stuff is spread between home and the studio.
In the circle, left to right: a brass pipe cut and smoothed for me by my son a steel/chrome thin wall slide a Mighty Mite thick wall brass a small Corricidin bottle a large Corricidin bottle Dunlop thick wall pyrex Down front: Shubb-Pearce SP3 Sally Van Meter ergo bar The four in the middle of the circle are from the 1970s. I came by the Corricidin bottles honestly during a sinus infection while at college. They've done more live gigs than I can count and don't seem to want to break. My current favorite bottleneck is the Dunlop thick wall pyrex. Sausage fingers. Bob
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Here's my offering.
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When I used to build custom laps I had these available from my website. 1" solid pyrex with ebony handle, standard Dunlop slide with wood handle added, and 1" diameter solid stainless steel with ebony handle.
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Wow nice!!!
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For glass I have a nice Diamond Bottlenecks blue bottleneck. I also have weird one made out of Fiber-Optic glass, which kind of looks like a blue Cat's eye gem. Pretty, but a little loose, and a little light.
For Metal I use a Latch Lake Acoustaglide. For Lap playing I use a bullet style as I play primarily Hawaiian and Blues, and use an old Broz-o-phonic. Those may be discontinued, because... You know... Closest thing I could find new was the "Latch Lake Bar"
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