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Hi everyone. Actually I wanted to post this in the "New Product Announcements"-area, but found the accordingly thread closed.
Anyway, I ordered a "Pedal Slide" by Axtremity a while ago and am now starting to fool around with it. There are some fine new possibilities
Since the bar itself is a hollow tube, it is too light in my opinion. Fortunately, it is easy to open and 2-(euro)cent coins fit in there EXACTLY. I stuffed a roll of them (including the paper) into it, shook out the coins that were surplus and closed it again: Perfect!


Here's what I came up with today as a kind of exercise: Pedal Slide Etude
Have fun

You certainly have a start on that addition to playing Peter, and demonstrate it very well, I think it will catch on when players like you are seen and heard, very well played.

James,

great demo / playing

great touch and tone

Danke

I enjoyed that Peter...Great Job!

Where did you get that?

That's an interesting gadget. When you lay the slide on the strings, can you use the other part on any string?

Thank you everyone for your kind words

@Edward: I ordered it directly from their homepage: http://www.axtremity.com
@Andy: By moving the bar across the strings, you can place "the other part" on any string

Peter....What a smart idea! I thought it was too light also and followed your lead. I found that a penny roll works great for those of us in the USA. Ya gotta use the machine rolls with the rolled ends....the old manually rolled penny rolls are a bit tight and sloppy. The weight is much better now and you get 9 cents back!

Thanks Doug, I followed your lead and I modified mine also......here's what I found.....

Yes, machine rolled pennies work best but in order for them to fit, I had to de-burr the inside....I used a reamer that I use for de-burring copper pipe.....I measured the excess of the roll sticking out from the end of the slide and then measured the inside length of the cap and marked my roll......I opened the roll at the mark, inserted it and replaced the cap....it fit in perfectly.....I had 14 cents left over.....

Very nice demo Peter.
Thanks for sharing.

When I saw this it reminded me of the Pedal Slide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OLvoLDklK8

As I mentioned a few doodles back, I got mine, fiddled a bit, said well, I'll get back to it. I have this quasi-religious belief that you should START with as good a tone as possible, and a 1.5 oz. stainless steel tube... doesn't. But finally, in the get-back, I unearthed a luverly marine brass 3.75" X .875" bulletnoser made by Mr. Johnson. And I HAD a 8/32 tap... viola! (no mo fiddlin'...)



When you have 9 oz. of hearty brass on hand, it does wonders for the tone of the little levered thing too! It's now something that could actually define a substantial corner of a style, but it's NOT just plug 'n' play - it will take a long time to work it in. My "problem" is I have a WHOLE lot of irons in the fire - one of which is playing out of a constant forward slant position to take advantage of moving the bar across the neck to change pitch - which is the polar OPPOSITE of the Axtremity's requirement.



In fact that bar on the screen above is a means towards that, a bar with longitudinal grooves along both sides.



As my "problem" is basically a surplus of too many cool choices, I shouldn't complain - too much! The one surefire thing I KNOW the Axtremity will do is a 6th-y take on your basic Chuck Berry NEEE-NEEE-NEEE-NEEE neee-neee-neee stuff - I wish "it" would stay in tune, though.