Making A Bottleneck Guitar Slide

#bottleneck #slideguitar #blues
Making my own bottleneck slide from wine bottles. Are you in to blues slide guitar? Oddly, despite the name there are relatively few famous players that have actually used bottle necks, so far as I can tell. Bonnie Raitt, looks like she's using one and I'm pretty sure I saw Ry Cooder, using what looked like the entire top half of a bottle! Anyway...here's my go at making one.

[@user-cs1jo4gp2e]

Wouah ! Beautiful slide playing 👍

[@chrisbarron2295]

Dude. Love your playing.

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thanks man, much appreciated!

[@garylam6233]

Sounds fantastic Thanks for the trial and error and success presentation. That slide with your technique make an awesome sound . Much Appreciated

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thank you, too kind! I thought it was only fair to show a bit of luck was needed in the way it cracked. Thanks again, Ben.

[@davidmuir6849]

Sounds fantastic and thanks for showing me how it’s made 👍 Regards Dave from Scotland

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thanks very much! Let me know how you get on with making one!

[@tedhart7708]

Loved that jam!

[@psychedelicbdsm7301]

This is a man of science!

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Ha, cheers! If chopping the tops off of bottles had been in the curriculum, I might have gotten a better grade!

[@lolipoppants]

Great tutorial

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thanks, man!

[@estevaofreitas9071]

Nice bottle slide, nice playing and nice overall quality of the video. What baffled me was the "Drinking is disgusting" part, but okay.

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thanks very much, very kind. Obviously not in a judgmental way, it's just always tasted awful to me. Apparently people have told me you have to push past that, but I never got that far! Haha!

[@estevaofreitas9071]

@@BenFletcherGuitar I respect you for not drinking because you don't like the taste, there's people who doesen't like either but drink it aniway for "social pressure" purposes. But maybe if you try the more suggary kinds you'll like it. Try some with hooney flavour or with a flavour more citric that might be a good transition to you. But aniways, you're healthier than most of us hahaha, you're not losing anything actually. Nice talking to you dude.

[@privilegeunderground3429]

It’s really good 👍🏻

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thanks, man!

[@magnusberger6762]

Great video, and really great playing!

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thank you, Magnus! Greatly appreciated.

[@iaineccleston8790]

Great video! Enjoyed that I did 👍🤘

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thanks, man!

[@johnmitchelljr]

Nice. Thank you.

[@malcocreative]

Hey, I dig your slide playing.

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thanks, man!

[@BrandonScottSellner]

Killer playing!

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thanks, man!

[@mikeward6925]

Thanks Ben - I'm gonna try & make one later today

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Cool! It's a fun thing to do. How did it turn out?

[@EatAPeach72]

How did it turn out ?

[@the_moody_blues]

@@BenFletcherGuitar I guess he died It's been six months

[@anotherwhitebluesguy]

Excellent playin man!!

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thanks man, very kind!

[@theohiograssmen]

A pipe cutter that you use for cutting brake lines and plumbing might give you an easier and cleaner cut. Just found this video, good stuff! As is the playing

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thank you! Good idea, but the one I had was nowhere near big enough to go around the bottle. It was an old design though, kind of a cast block with a cutting disc that you screw down. The hole had a very limited size range for the pipe (which sounds dirty!).

[@michaelodonovan6989]

A more in depth run down of your slide maker would be cool : )

[@michaelodonovan6989]

cool playing dude!

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thank you!

[@robespierreilf3278]

Top, top🤘🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸🎸🤙🤙🤙

[@bvanfossen01]

You made a genius jig. 👍👍 sounds killer. What model Gibson Les Paul is it?

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

May have been a touch overkill, ha! Thanks, man. It's a standard from 07, so it's one of the undesirable hollow ones. It was also refinished by the previous owner in a thin nitro, but much better looking colours than the slightly more gaudy original paint I think. Ben.

[@mattes217]

Hey great video, the rim looks good. Doesn't need to be in square. It doesn't influence the sound

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Thanks, man! No you're right it doesn't, but if I'd left it like that, I'd always know. Haha!

[@mattes217]

@@BenFletcherGuitar I tried it out. And it works really well. But now I know what you mean, the first one is always a prototype 😅 looks like an organ pipe or a broken funnel

[@ConstantinoOfficial]

What's wrong with a good old fashioned beer bottle?

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

They don't make them like they used to, I need some 'vintage' beer bottles!

[@iaineccleston8790]

Or a mic stand?!?!

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

@@iaineccleston8790 Haven't tried a mic stand, but I think I'll need a hotter kettle...

[@iaineccleston8790]

@@BenFletcherGuitar or a chainsaw...would be awfully jaggy though, might help get that Mike Bloomfield slide sound 🤣

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

@@iaineccleston8790 The 'making of' video, would make for a KZbin viral hit though!

[@sahilraut14]

How to make that perfect cut line when I don't have this kind of equipment?

[@qt_sir]

Hey. So your technique to get it unattached from scoring is just pouring hot water onto it? Also I don’t want to make that jig since I only want to make one so what’s a more efficient way for me?

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Yes, I found more extreme heat can shatter it pretty indiscriminately, but the concept is going from hot to cold, but rapidly, however you want to achieve that. You can score it by hand, I just struggled to get it to stay square and join back up with where I started. You might have more luck though. Maybe try and rotate the bottle on a work surface up against a wall, so that it can't slide back and forth. Ben

[@qt_sir]

@@BenFletcherGuitar thank you so much

[@DanielinLaTuna]

Any thoughts on sizing? For a girl’s hand… she’s tall and thin. Long fingers

[@JP-ce1xw]

what key and what tuning? please .

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

I just had to watch this back, because I couldn't even remember what type of jam I'd put in this video! I'm in standard tuning by the looks, but everything is down a semitone. I believe I'd also be in drop-d (so drop D flat) but in the bits I watched I didn't actually use it, so I'm not sure! So if your guitar was tuned to standard, you'd be in D flat and if you were down a half step you'd be in D (like I am). Hope this helps, Ben.

[@feelingsin]

seth rogen always a legend thanks!

[@toastyplayz22]

Whats the backing track called

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Long time since I made this video, as I remember it was just a straight ahead shuffle on this one? I make all the tracks from scratch for my videos, so it's some kind of drum loop and then I play everything else on to them with varying degrees of complexity. No name sorry. I'd give you a download link for it, but I've lost the file to this project, sorry mate. Ben

[@andrevilarc]

Thank you, i lost my finger 😢

[@doublechinmask3744]

Very nice playing.What tuning did you use? Also ,you are very charismatic and have a nice talking voice. Cheers

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

Very flattering! Thank you. I think I'm in standard tuning, but with a low D on the bottom, but...I've tuned all of that down a half step, so standard tuning in E flat with a low D flat. Hope that makes sense! I have no idea why I've done that, I probably didn't realise when I made the guide track! Thanks again, Ben.

[@helmetsandsunscreen]

Less crying.