Resophonic Guitar Slides (Code: resophonic-slides)

38.00 USD

Quantity in stock: 15

Maple Leaf Music stocks handcrafted crystal and glass slides from Diamond Slides in England and Chris Sherwin Glass in Vermont. Each one of these slides varies in size, thickness, color, weight,and tonal quality.

Slide Material : Crystal, Glass

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Diamond Slides

We've just received a shipment of these hand blown Diamond Bottleneck Slides. Each one is expertly crafted in England with crystal of varying hues, widths, and thicknesses. The shapes range from half slides to full bullets and the color variations are stunning. Priced at $38 each

So, how does the color of the lead crystal affect the tone?

Clear, uncolored bottle glass will give a warm, smooth tone - albeit with slightly less volume than the other available color choices...good for electric slide guitar!
Green bottle glass is colored using iron-oxides, giving an excellent 'all-round' tone with more of a tonal 'bite' and warmer sustain than clear bottle glass, and with a noticeably slight rise in volume levels due to the harder 'properties' found in green glass.
Cobalt blue bottle glass is the hardest of all commercially available bottle glass, using cobalt oxide to provide the blue hue. Cobalt blue bottle glass will give the loudest volume of the three 'base' colors - the tone being best described as bright & 'spiky'!

Chris Sherwin Glass

Chris Sherwin Glass of Bellows Falls Vermont has begun blowing handmade resophonic guitar slides exclusively for Maple Leaf Music in the last year. His background in glassblowing goes back over 20 years. In addition to glassblowing, he also enjoys exploring a variety of media and materials, such as music, ceramics, drawing, painting, and woodturning/wood burning and is a true Renaissance man.

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Shipping Policy

Ships from Brattleboro, VT

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Return Policy

Maple Leaf Music Co. has a 24-hour approval period after which time if the customer decides to return the item it must be in the original condition it was shipped and in the original packaging. No playing wear or signs of use should be detected. The customer must contact Maple Leaf Music prior to returning their instrument or the package will be refused. The customer is responsible for all shipping charges to and from if they return the instrument. There is a 4% restock fee if a credit card or PayPal was used as payment.*

* Payment with a certified bank check, personal check, and money order does not incur a restocking fee.

In Store Purchases

There is no approval period if you purchase an instrument at the shop (because you’ve seen it, played it and asked all the right questions of our knowledgeable staff), but be assured that if you buy an instrument or other product and are dissatisfied for any reason, we offer store credit for all returns up to 7 days after the purchase with a receipt. No monetary refunds.

Available for local pickup at Maple Leaf Music, 23 Elliot St. Brattleboro, VT 05301

Care and Feeding of a Solid Wood Instrument

Any instrument with solid woods requires the owner to control the humidity and temperature that instrument will be kept in. As a general rule of thumb, a solid wood instrument wants to live in an environment you would be comfortable in.

For the Dry Months

We recommend that you use two humidifiers in your case, one inside the sound hole and one in the space by the headstock.

We sell the Oasis brand humidification products as well as Dampits for instruments with smaller soundholes.

Signs of dryness include:

Depression of the top
Very low string action
String buzz
Sharp frets along the edge of the fingerboard

If any of these occur your instrument is too dry.

While the guitar company will warranty your new guitar for defects in manufacture, they specifically state in all the warranty literature that cracking or any other shrinking due to dryness is not covered.

For the Wet Months

It is as easy to over humidify a guitar as it is to under humidify and the consequences are just as dire. If you keep your house humidified, you probably don‘t need case humidifiers.

Signs of too much humidity include:

Action (String Height) is uncomfortable to play
Frets have discolored or turned green
Condensation on the top
The top is bellied up like and arch top guitar

To prevent humidity issues in either direction, please invest in a hygrometer. You want the levels to be around 45-50% moisture and this little tool will tell you where you are. Oasis makes a good one to go along with its’ humidifiers. Please inquire if you have questions concerning any instrument purchased at Maple Leaf Music.