Slide Guitar....

ToneControl

McSwaggerty said:

Whats your favourite guitar for Slide - Fender, Gibson or something else ?

Humbuckers or P90's ?

Short Scale or Long Scale ?

Thanks.

A lap steel
personal opinion: normal guitars played with a slide sound rattly and weak compared to a lapsteel
At best, a normal guitar played with a slide is a compromise: fine if you usually are playing fretted, but if possible it's much better to use a lap steel for slide work. They start at around £60 used for the electrics, so there is not much reason to avoid trying one

57Deluxe

my custom Tele - even gets that grind unplugged.

OilCityPickups

That Johnny Winter sound ... a Firebird. Sweet enough in the middle ... with a rawcus and nasty edge.Could easily use a Tele with a Firebird neck pickup, or even a Strat with a Firebird neck pickup.  

zepp76

mbe said:

I've seen a couple of places online selling brass bottlenecks with a concave radius for playing vintage Fender slide guitar.

@mbe  Any links to those please?

mbe

zepp76 said:

mbe said:

I've seen a couple of places online selling brass bottlenecks with a concave radius for playing vintage Fender slide guitar.

@mbe  Any links to those please?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jim-Dunlop-SI-Concave-Sld/dp/B000EEHD20/ref=pd_sim_267_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B000EEHD20&pd_rd_r=b070fcdf-806f-11e8-b7f4-756a5069be0f&pd_rd_w=jvb8C&pd_rd_wg=MHkfg&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_p=3274180622111699416&pf_rd_r=FTZBABXQX5M263SNKZPH&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=FTZBABXQX5M263SNKZPH ;

McSwaggerty

ToneControl said:

McSwaggerty said:

Whats your favourite guitar for Slide - Fender, Gibson or something else ?

Humbuckers or P90's ?

Short Scale or Long Scale ?

Thanks.

A lap steel
personal opinion: normal guitars played with a slide sound rattly and weak compared to a lapsteel
At best, a normal guitar played with a slide is a compromise: fine if you usually are playing fretted, but if possible it's much better to use a lap steel for slide work. They start at around £60 used for the electrics, so there is not much reason to avoid trying one

Thanks all - I play slide on acoustic resonator at the present and fancied trying electric....but as I am no Ry Cooder, for £60 I reckon I will give a lap steel a Whirl....cheers !

ToneControl

McSwaggerty said:

ToneControl said:

McSwaggerty said:

Whats your favourite guitar for Slide - Fender, Gibson or something else ?

Humbuckers or P90's ?

Short Scale or Long Scale ?

Thanks.

A lap steel
personal opinion: normal guitars played with a slide sound rattly and weak compared to a lapsteel
At best, a normal guitar played with a slide is a compromise: fine if you usually are playing fretted, but if possible it's much better to use a lap steel for slide work. They start at around £60 used for the electrics, so there is not much reason to avoid trying one

Thanks all - I play slide on acoustic resonator at the present and fancied trying electric....but as I am no Ry Cooder, for £60 I reckon I will give a lap steel a Whirl....cheers !

look for one like this, or buy new
https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_slider_ii.htm
I have one of these, only I am fussy, so needed to replace pickup to get noise-cancelling

Guitar_Slinger

Guitar_Slinger said:

I've got an old parlour acoustic in open D. It has a DiMarzio Acoustic 2 sound hole pickup wired to an end pin jack socket, in case my woman ever decides to "done leave me" and I choose to play on street corners.

Back at work after a time away at Euroblues guitar week.. There were four sessions scheduled per day with three or four choices per session and IIRC, you could have done a different slide class for each. I did one slide class a day. I normally play electric (with a pick) but last week it was fingers all the way!

hotpickups

I use my les Paul for slide. Action isn't set too low to enable this. Tune it to open G for speed mid set I.e. just tune the top E to D and don't play the bottom E string. Keith Richards actually takes his bottom E off the guitar