I'm on a number of "regular" guitar forums in addition to this one, and we had a discussion about slide guitar. Being an enthusiastic slide player, I offered a few tips.
One fellow mentioned he'd just bought a 50 dollar slide.
I pointed out that my very best resonator CBG only cost about 30 dollars and that such a device would be..... A little out of character.
I'm pretty happy with my broken-off wine bottle necks and hacksawed pieces of tubing...
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I have a 16" thickwall polished stainless pipe that I got for about 20.00. will make about 8-9 nice steel slides.
I might pay 50.00 for a glass bottle for a slide, but it also better contain some darn good wine. john
I get all my guitar slides from one location: Lowe’s Hardware Dept! The slide pictured above is a $1.50 axle spacer found in the section that sells nuts and bolts. It’s dense, fits my finger perfectly and cheap enough to give away at the end of my gigs. I use this slide on all my cigar box guitars with 4 or more strings.
For my 3-string cigar box guitars, nothing beats a 3/4″ socket. It just fits across all three strings but is stubby enough for me to play individual strings.
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I think their are as many opinions as types of slides. ey whatever gets you their, somebody threw a great bone in our composter, that I salvaged, works well and the price was right. I did however feel I was spending big bucks in buying a $6.00 store bought glass slide just to see if it was any better. Cheers Ron.
It's easy to spend $50 on a slide...and each to their own, but a good old-fashioned bottleneck does it for me. The main difference is that folks playing cigarbox guitars and the like, they are shooting for a minimal approach with the hardware, in order to concentrate on the music...and this seems to encourage a more direct route to musical self-expression...and it's all round a more satisfying and complete experience.
If you go down the path of expensive guitars, it's easy to fall into the trap that the sound you are after lies somewhere out there, and is created by this magical ideal instrument, slide, strings, amp or whatever. These people seem forever dissatisfied with their gear, and feel that somehow they'll find the "holy grail of tone" if they spend money on more and more outlandishly expensive amplifiers and guitars....and yea, brothers and sisters, they shall ever pursue the always fleeting end of the rainbow, for such is their folly.
Maybe it was a "bar", not a "bottleneck"? They tend to be a little more expensive. I did a quick lookup in my favourite music shop, found at least 20 different slides under 20$ (glass, brass, ceramic, straight, conical, open, closed, full, ring+plate type etc.) In other words - a piece of brass or glass tube, bottleneck lookalikes, cutted and formed metal plates.
BTW: "The path of expensive" - my dissatisfaction with "the gear" pushes me farther and farther down the "acoustic fretless" road. It means from an electric Yamaha bass guitar to an EUB (price of the Yamaha-$300) to the guitarron (price tag: EUB-$200. And, boy, does this thing sound!). From a 300$ (actually quite cheap in the above context ;-) ) guitar to the i-don't-know-how-much-but-sure-as-hell-less-than-$10 CBG. Kinda proves your theory, John.
ChickenboneJohn said:
It's easy to spend $50 on a slide...and each to their own, but a good old-fashioned bottleneck does it for me. The main difference is that folks playing cigarbox guitars and the like, they are shooting for a minimal approach with the hardware, in order to concentrate on the music...and this seems to encourage a more direct route to musical self-expression...and it's all round a more satisfying and complete experience.
If you go down the path of expensive guitars, it's easy to fall into the trap that the sound you are after lies somewhere out there, and is created by this magical ideal instrument, slide, strings, amp or whatever. These people seem forever dissatisfied with their gear, and feel that somehow they'll find the "holy grail of tone" if they spend money on more and more outlandishly expensive amplifiers and guitars....and yea, brothers and sisters, they shall ever pursue the always fleeting end of the rainbow, for such is their folly.
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