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Personally, I've never found a bottle neck which I liked well enough to go to the work of cutting and polishing it.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings phangeaux https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-131404 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-130342 Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:07:59 +0000
We could have played "spot the riff" well into the early hours, got drunk on Tetley Bitter, and compared whiskers......


:D :D :D

Vic]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-130342 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-130184 Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:22:53 +0000
Happy Slidin'

Big D.

http://www.diamondbottlenecks.com :wink:]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Big D. https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-130184 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-130183 Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:51:43 +0000 Slide and Alternate tunings greybeard https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-130183 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-126658 Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:11:20 +0000
Happy Slidin'

Big D.

http://www.diamondbottlenecks.com

P.S.....Hey Ric - i need to chat to you soon about something totally non-musical - expect a P.M. in the next few days buddy :wink:]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Big D. https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-126658 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-126646 Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:59:21 +0000 http://www.diamondbottlenecks.com :DThink you could handle it, Ian? :lol:

(Most sliders agree that Ian's company makes the best glass slides on the world market.) :D]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-126646 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-126513 Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:19:15 +0000
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Happy Slidin'

Big D.

http://www.diamondbottlenecks.com :D]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Big D. https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-126513 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-126285 Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:55:18 +0000
I've made them by scoring a line around the neck with a glass cutter and then separating the neck either by alternately dunking it in boiling water and ice water (when it works, it separates cleanly with a sharp "ping") or by tapping it with a mallet as the scribed line rests against a sharp edge. Wear eye protection. Then sand the edges smooth, outdoors, with silicon carbide paper. Don't breathe the dust. "Flame polishing," as used with laboratory Pyrex, doesn't work. It'll crackle and spall off tiny bits of supersonic red-hot glass, that you don't want to get hit by, and leave a ragged, sharp, ugly edge.

You'll have some bottles break however you do it. Collect several.

Several folks have recommended sawing them off with tile cutters. That's the high tech method.]]> Slide and Alternate tunings Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-126285 https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-11824 Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:04:10 +0000 Slide and Alternate tunings haggardslider https://guitarnoise.forum/slide-and-alternate-tunings/making-your-own-slide/#post-11824