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Weird idea I have. anyone wanna try it?

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_Hiller_:

--- Quote from: TRiggs on November 21, 2018, 11:43:05 am ---You can buy Damascus steel tubing online just google it, as for making it well you would need tooling that a backyard smith just dosn't have it's a whole different kind of critter than making pattern welded billets for a blade. BTW it would be plenty hard enough for a slide.

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hmm. My thought process was that it’d be as simple as making a billet of it, flattening it out to whatever thickness you wanted the wall of the slide to be, and then rolling that into a tube. I figure it doesn’t necessarily need to be fully closed either. Just the part touching the strings. Good to know it’d be hard enough at least

bubby:
They are taking old silver spoons and making and selling slides from those. I'll find a pic

bubby:
Just a spoon worked on a mandrel. You could make the mokume with a stack of quarters I've done it, it isn't that difficult

_Hiller_:

--- Quote from: bubby on November 21, 2018, 10:26:38 pm ---Just a spoon worked on a mandrel. You could make the mokume with a stack of quarters I've done it, it isn't that difficult

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This is pretty much exactly what I had in mind. I wonder if it’d have any interesting tonal qualities in comparison to a  regular steel or brass slide.

Mesophilic:
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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