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Weird idea I have. anyone wanna try it?

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_Hiller_:

--- Quote from: dieselcheese on November 24, 2018, 02:04:10 pm ---On the Mohs scale copper is 3 and nickle is 4.  With steel guitar strings being at least as hard as iron which is 4.5 you might wear spots in the copper faster than the nickle sliding up and down the strings.

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I had thought of the same thing. I thought that might actually make it more interesting. Sort of like how some old slide players use brass slides and carry them around with keys and change and such in an effort to scratch it up. I figured the metal wearing down at different rates and the unique patterns might make the slide interact differently with the strings in an interesting way. Dunno how long it’d last though.  I suppose it would depend on your strings

Mr. Woolery:
Something like that spoon slide would be fairly easy to make from mokume.  I'd probably use a nickel silver (no silver in it - it is a white bronze) and navel bronze or red bronze combo, myself.  A really lovely, but subtle pattern comes from nickel silver and sterling.  It is white and grey and really sexy, but you have to look at it, it doesn't jump out at you.

Mokume can also be purchased in sheet form, if you want to either make your own slide or find a local jeweler to make it for you.  My advice is to stop by the art department of your local university and talk to the metalsmithing instructor.  There may be an intermediate student who needs a project.   This is exactly the sort of thing my old professor would have handed over to a student.  And the student will get class credit for it and may even start offering them for sale.

My favorite slide is glass, but I don't really play guitar.  My axe is a banjo. 

-Patrick

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