Slide Guitar....

McSwaggerty

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

Humbuckers or P90's ?

Short Scale or Long Scale ?

Thanks.

munckee

My favourite is my 335 copy, prefer to playing on my strat or tele, also like my acoustic.

HPhillipsmusic

I use my 335 for slide mostly, find the flatter fretboard and humbuckers very nice - that said I recently bought an SG which is being set up with a new nut for slide, looking forward to getting my Derek Trucks on. I like playing slide on a tele and strat, love the tone but vintage radius fretboards i find require a more precise touch! 

earwighoney

Weissenborn. 

impmann

Tele. With a Strat neck pickup.

mbe

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

munckee

earwighoney said:

Weissenborn. 

bless you.

Plus tend to play in open D for slide, although I don't play slide that often.

Danielsguitars

look at a coodercaster too, great sounding 

bbill335

impmann said:

Tele. With a Strat neck pickup.

tele with gold foil neck pickup! 

Guitar_Slinger

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.

StuartMac290

I've used SGs for slide for years, but in the last wee while I've been using a 2-pickup Cabronita Thinline Tele with Filtertron-esque pickups and it's pretty much perfect

vasselmeyer

Either my Michael Messer Resonator for acoustic or my Godin Radiator for electric.

interstellar

335  on the neck pickup   nice fat tone which i like for slide 

DulcetJones

I go all out with a home made lap steel on a stand.  I use dobro tuning (GBDGBD) and a volume pedal.  I'm too heavy handed to make bottle neck slide work on a conventional guitar.

bbill335

DulcetJones said:

I go all out with a home made lap steel on a stand.  I use dobro tuning (GBDGBD) and a volume pedal.  I'm too heavy handed to make bottle neck slide work on a conventional guitar.

That's really cool. Do you use 2 A strings for the low G+B? I'm curious to try this out on a guitar.

DulcetJones

No, I use a set of "dobro" strings, 16 to 56 and not recommended for use on conventional guitars.  They're made for "square neck" dobros that are reinforced to handle the tuning and the gauge.  Also, I use a conventional "bar" for this type of playing, often referred to as a "Stevens Bar".  I built this one in long scale, but most production lap steels are short scale.  I haven't compared to see if there's any difference though.  

jonnyburgo

I’m pretty new to slide, my efforts so far include a Beefheart song and a Beck song, the Beefheart song is played on an Esquire in the "Eldred" position and the Beck song is on my Supro with Vistatron pickup, the Vistatrons are perfect for slide IMO.

Beefheart


And Beck

normula1

Gretsch Alligator dobro or Les Paul melody maker (thin, Spanish cedar, single P90) both in open g

Cols

Telecaster with nice heavy strings.

Funkfingers

munckee said:
open D for slide

DulcetJones said:

I use dobro tuning (GBDGBD)

normula1 said:

open g

Important aspect, favourite tuning(s).

I usually play in Open G for Keefish things. Open E or D for trying to be Duane. 

Some clever baskets can produce convincing slide licks in Standard tuning. 

jdgm

An old Squier Strat with a single (bridge) pickup in G tuning. We do "Let's Work Together".

I almost prefer standard tuning as I know where I am......