Wood or Acrylic and Bone Guitar Slides Hand Made

in #woodworking7 years ago

So since I have been sharing my cigar box guitars on here I might as well expand to the other items I make to go along with them. A rots/ blues guitar would be useless if you didnt have a slide to play them with so after finding the material I liked the best I started making slides based on bone with exotic hardwoods or acrylic bonded together to make an amazing sounding and feeling slide. Below are some examples and at the end is a video of a friend that is playing bot a slide I built and a Guitar I built.
Here is a slab of Bloodwood waiting to be turned into a slide....
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the rough beginning of a slide...
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sometimes it's hard to get them to bond and this happens.....
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So here we go with a gallery of slides......8.jpg1.jpg2.jpg4.jpg6.jpg9.jpg11.jpg13.jpg15.jpg14.jpg23.jpg24.jpg31.jpg32.jpg33.jpg34.jpg35.jpg36.jpg42.jpg43.jpg41.jpg

And to finish it off a video of my creations by a friend Terry Quiett..... He is playing a cat food bowl resonator and a rosewood and bone slide I made for him....

Steem On..........
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Some really nice slides you make! Like the demonstration of one of these in the music video.

ya a lot of that is Terry's playing.... I think he could make a rock sound good....lol

They are very cool. And what a sound! What glue do you use? Epoxy? Thanks

epoxy sometimes but usually polyurethane glue..... It seems to bond the bone and wood better. I also use an industrial CA glue sometimes.....