My fave slide got broke today

[JonMan94]

i keep a steel slide for any song that needs it....

 

[R8R6Ben]

hey Mud I chatted with my mom a bit earlier and she is gonna go take a quick look as soon as she can "get my dad off his lazy ass" and see if they can find any more out there plus I emailed her a few pics so she could see what they look like... fingers crossed

 

[coldsteal2]

I love glass slides but stoped using them after
having a very close call when i steped on mine
in my bare feet in the middle of the night.
So i went back to brass and steel ones.

 

[mudfinger]

hey Mud I chatted with my mom a bit earlier and she is gonna go take a quick look as soon as she can "get my dad off his lazy ass" and see if they can find any more out there plus I emailed her a few pics so she could see what they look like... fingers crossed

Go, Moms!

 

[Les Paw]

You guys are GREAT! I wish we could all be sitting around drinking beer and chatting about thist stuff! I could never have these conversations with friends or others. They just would not "get it"! Now back to the issue at hand.. I have all but abandoned slides a few years ago because I was just never comfortable with it. I have used ONLY metal. I think I will revisit things with glass in mind.... I have many old bottles sitting in the garage. Belieive it or not, I used to collect those too!! See what I can find... I want to thank all of you again for your candid views!!

 

[R8R6Ben]

definitely tune to E and grab a good glass bottle... you'll be hooked in no time flat
My wife couldn't understand why I damn near cried when it got broke... until I explained to her how rare they are and how much it could cost me to replace it.

 

[ext1jdh]

I used an old hot sauce bottle as a lap slide until my wife threw it away grr

 

[Les Paw]

Update: I went through all the bottles... Nothing that I could find fit my finger in comfortably anyway. Some were the right size I think, but my finger was too tight in them. I am hell bent on getting this right this time..... Off to the flea market this weekend!

 

[mudfinger]

Update: I went through all the bottles... Nothing that I could find fit my finger in comfortably anyway. Some were the right size I think, but my finger was too tight in them. I am hell bent on getting this right this time..... Off to the flea market this weekend!

Man, I wish we had a good flea market around here. The Rose Bowl is great, but it's only a few times every year.

 

[mudfinger]

definitely tune to E and grab a good glass bottle... you'll be hooked in no time flat
My wife couldn't understand why I damn near cried when it got broke... until I explained to her how rare they are and how much it could cost me to replace it.

At which point, SHE started crying, knowing full well that you'd be hellbent on getting a replacement.

Wait til Moms comes up with a dozen of the lil buggers in the collection...

 

[GammyBird]

I just went on ebay and found a few Coricidin bottles. They don't seem that expensive.

 

[mudfinger]

I just went on ebay and found a few Coricidin bottles. They don't seem that expensive.

Most of them are replicas. Genuine vintage bottles shock: ) are not so cheap:

GENUINE 60's-70

 

[mudfinger]

There do seem to be some folks making glass tubing from various compositions of glass:

EDIT: I actually just sent a few emails out to some folks that restore old glass, mebbe I'll have a better idea of how to proceed after they chime in.

 

[GammyBird]

Most of them are replicas. Genuine vintage bottles shock: ) are not so cheap:

GENUINE 60's-70

Right on....I just did a quick check without checking the detail.

 

[GammyBird]

I don't play the slide often...not in years actually. I must check through that bottle collection I have and see what's there.

 

[mudfinger]

I don't play the slide often...not in years actually. I must check through that bottle collection I have and see what's there.

Right? Almost a hundred bucks for a lil ol' glass pill bottle?!? Gammy's gonna find a dozen of 'em and fund his next LP with the proceeds...

 

[GammyBird]

Right? Almost a hundred bucks for a lil ol' glass pill bottle?!? Gammy's gonna find a dozen of 'em and fund his next LP with the proceeds...

lol...I wish! I have seen lots of small bottles at some of the antique shops and yard sales that I frequent. I have mostly bigger bottles and old pop bottles. I'll dig something up!!!

 

[Les Paw]

We have MANY of these around here ; One of the biggest in the country is coming up near us. We have a farm with about 100 Acres in Indiana and the National Muzzle loading assoc. has a shoot twice a year. June and September. IT is always the second full week. The entire area becomaes a HUGE flea market and garage sale. I would say a good 4-5 acres of stuff!!! IT goes for about two weeks. I look forward to is every year. There are ALwAYS guys with huge lots of bottles. I always pass them up.. went through that phase in collecting about 30 years ago... Well I am about to revisit it! I will be looking and if I find more than one I will keep you guys in mind. Honestly!!

Man, I wish we had a good flea market around here. The Rose Bowl is great, but it's only a few times every year.

 

[mudfinger]

We have MANY of these around here ; One of the biggest in the country is coming up near us. We have a farm with about 100 Acres in Indiana and the National Muzzle loading assoc. has a shoot twice a year. June and September. IT is always the second full week. The entire area becomaes a HUGE flea market and garage sale. I would say a good 4-5 acres of stuff!!! IT goes for about two weeks. I look forward to is every year. There are ALwAYS guys with huge lots of bottles. I always pass them up.. went through that phase in collecting about 30 years ago... Well I am about to revisit it! I will be looking and if I find more than one I will keep you guys in mind. Honestly!!

I'm officially jealous; that is a GREAT way to spend the day, checking out other folks' old treasures! I have a feeling you might just walk away with a couple fine slides!

I just got call from a glassblower up in Seattle in response to my email campaign; very cool cat, even took the time to listen to my music some before calling. I have a repro stored away somewhere, and I'm going to weigh my original and the repro, hopefully today, and report back to him on the weight difference. All else being equal between the repro and the original, it's gonna come down to the additives used in bottle manufacturing back in the day. Different substances were added to the glass to give it color, AND...this is my suspicion...lead (Pb) was often used to make the glass easier to work with; this would give it more density...

If you have an original, or a repro, and access to a fine-grain scale, feel free to weigh and photograph that lil bugger; the larger the survey sample, the better the data. Good times.

 

[R8R6Ben]

i saw that one on ebay for a buy it now of $95... I am damn tempted to get it. I am still waiting to hear back from my mom, maybe she'll get in touch in the next day or so with good news... if not I will probably grab that one on ebay if it's still there

luckily my wife is pretty cool about my guitar obsession