Wood tone bar?

Jon-Paul Ruggieri · Post by **Jon-Paul Ruggieri** » 14 May 2021 5:38 am

I'm looking for a wood tone bar to try out for some different sonic options. Is this a thing? Haven't been able to find one. Anyone know where I can get one?

Thanks!

Tom Sosbe · Post by **Tom Sosbe** » 14 May 2021 5:53 am

I use a end off a broom handle.

Jon-Paul Ruggieri · Post by **Jon-Paul Ruggieri** » 14 May 2021 6:40 am

Tom Sosbe wrote:I use a end off a broom handle.

Ha! Love this, great idea

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 14 May 2021 6:41 am

Some steelers use a wood bar to help get a dobro effect.

Erv

Eric Reeves · Post by **Eric Reeves** » 14 May 2021 8:11 am

I bet some polished petrified wood would be really nice.

Dennis Detweiler · Post by **Dennis Detweiler** » 14 May 2021 8:33 am

A chunk of 1 inch PVC pipe works good also.

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 14 May 2021 10:13 am

Tom Sosbe wrote:I use a end off a broom handle.

Me too (about three and a quarter inches of it, not the entire thing).

Richard Lotspeich · Post by **Richard Lotspeich** » 15 May 2021 2:38 am

Broom handle/dowel rod/or drum stick.

Jon-Paul Ruggieri · Post by **Jon-Paul Ruggieri** » 15 May 2021 5:19 am

Great and creative ideas here, thanks everyone!

Ken Metcalf · Post by **Ken Metcalf** » 18 May 2021 6:09 am

Plastic comb for banjo.

Morgan Scoggins · Post by **Morgan Scoggins** » 24 May 2021 1:11 pm

After reading your posting, I found an old bar in my "junk drawer" upstairs. I bought it almost 15 years ago when I started playing steel. It is made from a piece of some kind of hard wood from Texas. I forget the name. Anyway it is 3 3/4 " long and 1" in diameter.
I never was able to make much use of it. The bar is a bit on the light weight side. When my wife gets home with her cell phone camera. I will send you a picture of it.
I will be glad to send it to you at no charge if you can use it.
I don't like to have old stuff laying around not being used. I usually try to find someone who can use it.

Morgan Scoggins · Post by **Morgan Scoggins** » 24 May 2021 1:23 pm

I just remembered that the type of wood the tone bar is made from is mesquite. it is pretty hard but not too heavy.

Morgan Scoggins · Post by **Morgan Scoggins** » 24 May 2021 1:53 pm

Picture file

Ok , I hope these pictures com through!

Jim Palenscar · Post by **Jim Palenscar** » 24 May 2021 9:08 pm

I use the end of a drum stick for banjo-like sounds.

Ron Pruter · Post by **Ron Pruter** » 15 Jun 2021 6:38 pm

I forgot my bar one night and went into the janitor closet at the bar. Saw a saw and a broom. Got through the night with that crude thing. I wonder what the janitor thought when he saw that broom.?

Larry Dering · Post by **Larry Dering** » 20 Jun 2021 6:00 pm

Ron, he thought you got the short end of the stick.

Ron Pruter · Post by **Ron Pruter** » 22 Jun 2021 7:14 pm

Larry Dering wrote:Ron, he thought you got the short end of the stick.

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