Vintage tone bar slides?
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Vintage tone bar slides?
What kind of bars were used back in the old days with RIC lap steels?
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Probably Jack Daniels.......
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You wouldn't believe how many "steels", as they were called, were available. Some were just cylindrical polished and chromed bars, while others were flatted bars that sort of went between your fingers. But the king of steels was the "Black Raja". This was a tapered bullet-like bar covered with black plastic, maybe Bakelite, filled with lead and later, just steel.loverickbass wrote:What kind of bars were used back in the old days with RIC lap steels?
Steels came in different lengths, depending on how many strings were on your guitar.
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John did Rickenbacker make any of these?
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We didn't make any but we were a distributor for Black Rajah.
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Thanks to John Hall for this great bit of tone bar history.
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If you want one shaped like the Black Raja, but in stainless, check out these guys:sloop_john_b wrote:Good stuff! I am definitely ready for a new one.
http://www.bulletbars.com/
They will make 'em any way you want...
I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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Thank you John.
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I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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Would you mind comparing the tone of the red ones versus the green? I've heard so many people say the red ones have a hotter sound.
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I bet the girls really like that collection of yours!
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My collection is currently in storage while I move into a new house. As I remember it, the red bars are coated metal and the green bars are Bakelite with lead centers.The green bars are definitely more mellow sounding.johnhall wrote:Would you mind comparing the tone of the red ones versus the green? I've heard so many people say the red ones have a hotter sound.
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I call it my adolescent d**do collection.jps wrote:I bet the girls really like that collection of yours!