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BluesKing777

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Jesus. £250 !! That's mental.
I mean, a craftsmans socket? A boroken bottle? Anyone can get one of those. Now all those 1%ers can something uniquely special to slip on their finger when they grab one of their prized vintage nationals and rip off one of their favorite Bluz: Moochers Blues (47-53), Poll Crashers, and, a favorite, the No Care Blues.
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Sounds interesting got any more details on that?

 

I would like to hear more as well please ZW!

 

 

When I was first learning slide, me being what they call "Kacky-Handed" in these matters, I had broken a few bottles and played with my new creation until there was too much blood to continue....

 

 

I then resorted to 'music shop slides' which are ok sometimes but generally don't fit - if they were jeans the legs would be long enough to go around again. The brass ones are ok if you get the right size, but the pyrex ones are too thin a glass to use on acoustic guitars.

 

Then I found Diamond Bottlenecks online (no affiliation!). They are made by slide guitarists in a glass making expertise area of England and they make a few other glass products so they have a whole lot of the glass associated machinery and my first buy a few years ago - the Blue Diamond is such a jewel that I bought a spare later, and recently I bought some more of their range.

 

http://www.diamondbo.../DB08/index.asp

 

My first love - Blue Diamond:

 

 

file://localhost/Users/perrygraves/Desktop/blueDiamond09_thumb.jpg

 

Next I got the hand blown Ultimate in red:

 

 

file://localhost/Users/perrygraves/Desktop/Ultimate_Guitar_Slide_collection.jpg

 

And recently, I got the Original:

 

 

file://localhost/Users/perrygraves/Desktop/greenstandard.jpg

 

And a couple of Redhouses:

 

 

file://localhost/Users/perrygraves/Desktop/redhousegreensingle_200.jpg

 

 

file://localhost/Users/perrygraves/Desktop/clearredhouse_200.jpg

 

They are all a fraction different to use and the main thing - they are custom fitted to my pinky!

 

Like I said above - absolute jewels!

 

 

BluesKing777.

 

 

 

EDIT: Sorry - Mr Gibson wouldn't let the pics of the slides come up, so you will have to look them up yourself!

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