Tip for storing glass slides

[RBSinTo]

As my music teacher suggested, I recently bought a glass slide, as I'm learning the lead part of Clapton's "Give me strength".
The salesperson in the store tried to steer me away from a glass slide to either a brass or ceramic one because he had three glass ones break inside guitar cases, resulting in difficult clean-ups to remove all the shards.
I went with glass as my teacher's recommended, and on the way home, stopped at my drugstore and asked the pharmacist for a plastic pill bottle, the kind prescriptions come in. They come in a number of different sizes, and I got one that the slide fits in perfectly.
With the child-proof cap on, there is no chance of the slide accidently coming out inside the case, and being broken. Just thought I'd pass this tip along.
RBSinTo

 

[Guildedagain]

I've never broken a glass slide, even dropping them.

Fairly easy to cut out of a wine bottle top actually, with a little practice.

Some glass slides are pretty thick, like the Rock Slide, an invention of a player friend of mine, now passed but his slides live on.


I store all of my slides in a tackle box drawer, I don't like strays.

My favorite slide I made from a 13/16" spark plug socket, steel has more rasp than glass.

Then there's brass, and eventually you'll have quite few slides, including "tone bars" for lap steels, with names on them from the past like Nick Manoloff and others.

 

[crank]

I've broken at least 3 from them rolling off music stands onto hard floors. Never broke one in case or in my gig bag. our teacher must really throw his cases around because I've dragged mine, especially the gig bag, around to lots of jams and gigs.

I have glass, brass, chrome and ceramic slides. Mostly I use glass but my Tele likes the brass and I sometimes use the ceramic for a mellower tone with my G37.

 

[mavuser]

i bought the Dunlop Allman Brothers glass slide around 20+ years ago, at Sam Ash. never had any issues, never went to great lengths to protect it. The new ones must be real garbage, if three separate times one has broke inside a guitar case, on the same guy!

 

[walrus]

I dabbled in slide for a little while, never took to it, though. Had a nice brass slide.

But just thinking about getting broken glass inside the case would make me consider the caution RBS suggests.

walrus

 

[Guildedagain]

I dabbled in slide for a little while, never took to it,

I dabbled without progressing for a couple decades, never getting past a few licks in open D.

Somehow the dam broke a few summers ago, when I wouldn't play any of my guitars in standard tuning, got into the electric 12 string, got really heavy into DADGAD, got incredibly proficient at slide, and then went back to my guitar studies in standard tuning, never returned to slide.

 

[crank]

I play slide in standard tuning... just like Warren...ok maybe not just like him but you get the idea.

 

[mavuser]

I play slide in standard tuning... just like Warren...ok maybe not just like him but you get the idea.

I play slide in standard tuning as well. Warren Haynes plays slide in several different tunings. Are u saying he plays in standard the most? that is interesting.

 

[GAD]

I bought a slide in 1979 so I could properly play the solo in Free Bird. I still have it. Haven’t used it since.

I do have tone bars for my resonators, though.

 

[fronobulax]

 

[GAD]

Nice

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Of course, metal slides are impervious and ceramic slides are close. Steel tubing and wrench sockets are both great.

But for glass, the pill bottle solution is genius. Glad you mentioned it.

 

[Canard]

A length of split foam pipe insulation should do the trick.

 

[Guildedagain]

the pill bottle solution is genius.

The pill bottle itself was the solution for Duane, the Coricidin bottle.

 

[crank]

I play slide in standard tuning as well. Warren Haynes plays slide in several different tunings. Are u saying he plays in standard the most? that is interesting.

Yes I am.

 

[mavuser]

any idea what tuning Warren is in on this one?

 

[beecee]

Dickey Betts!

I always wondered how much of a reprobate he had be for getting kicked out of AB.

 

[crank]

any idea what tuning Warren is in on this one?

Ain't no Warren Haynes in this clip. Dan Toler is playing 2nd guitar.

 

[mavuser]

Ain't no Warren Haynes in this clip. Dan Toler is playing 2nd guitar.

haa u may want to take a closer look at that one. it is definitely Warren Haynes, no need to debate it any further!

 

[Midnight Toker]

I play slide in standard tuning as well. Warren Haynes plays slide in several different tunings. Are u saying he plays in standard the most? that is interesting.

One of my fav local guitarists growing up was Ernie Lancaster from Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band. (Renown boogie woogie pianist Deanna Bogart and world renown sax player Ron Holloway were in that band!) , well Ernie threw in a lot of slide parts within tunes while playing in standard and It wasn't until zip saw him close up that I saw how he was doing it. He had an extra wide chrome ring that fit between his second knuckle and his hand and allowed him to play slide 2-3 strings at a time slide while not being impeaded from being able to play normally w/ his fingers. It's something I've always wanted to try, but never have. I play slide most in various open tunings, but there are some in standard as well. (Zep's What Is And What Should Never Be, You Shook Me, etc)

I have glass slides made from heavy antique wine bottles, brass, and chrome. I like the glass best. And the custom made glass slides all came in Rx type containers lined w/ thin foam. (The kind where you squeeze the lid at the 2 arrows and the lid pops up.

(And btw, Dan Toler practically had a fro and looked nothing like that..That's absolutely Warren! )