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Diamond Bottlenecks Home Page
Welcome to the home of the custom-made glass bottleneck slide!
We proudly present here for all Bottleneck, Slide & Lap-Style guitarists our comprehensive range of perfectly shaped & polished authentic glass bottleneck guitar slides; hand-blown lead crystal glass guitar slides and crystal glass Lap & Pedal Steel tone bars, all crafted by hand in our world famous glass-design workshops ~ creating with care & pride the finest glass guitar slides and tone-bars in the world.
****The new 2012 'Ultimate' Gallery is now updated with our brand-new glass colors and patterns ~ and please check out the new 2012 'Next Generation' Crystal Tone Bars, and the Custom Slides & Bars pages for our latest additions****
"...undoubtedly the most informative guitar slide website on the Internet..."
Paul Balmer ~ Author of "The Haynes Guitar Manuals"; Northampton, U.K.
We're extremely proud to announce the Diamond Bottlenecks crew have
been honored with the prestigious "5-Star Gold" award for our guitar slide product range by "Guitarist" ~ the U.K.'s #1 guitar magazine! "Guitarist" magazine has one of the largest circulations in the World, reviewing many hundreds of guitar-related products annually...only a handful of these products are awarded the "5-Star Gold" honor - many thanks indeed!
July 2011
Please use the thumbnail icons to the left here to browse our website and enjoy our range of authentic glass bottlenecks; hand-blown crystal slides; 'Signature Series' slides and solid crystal lap-slide tone bars ~ producing functional works of art in real glass for the discerning 'tone-hound'!
Honorary member of the M.I.A.
(Music Industry Association) 2012.
Honored to be recognised by most professional acoustic / resonator slide guitarists as the World's #1 hand-blown glass & authentic bottleneck guitar slide and tone bar producers, we create our slides & bars in our flagship workshop in Stourbridge, England ~ and our second workshop in Brux, South Central France.
Please check out our 'News & Reviews' page for the latest info!
Our new website updates featuring the 2012 'Ultimate' Gallery ~ the new Crystal Tone Bars & the awesome Customs Slides & Bars, plus all of our new stockists have now been added, and please check out the video of the awesome Chris Eaton on our Pill Bottle Slide page!! ~ 1st. February 2012
Audio & Visual performance links:-
We're honored to receive kind permission from Lenny Gerthoffer of 'Vintage Nationals' fame in Santa Barbara, California (www.nationalguitar.com) to add his definitive video called "Choosing a Bottleneck for Playing Slide Guitar" here on our Homepage.
Lenny plays a beautiful G.S. National Tricone and talks about slide sizing, fitting comfort & slide shapes - including general comparisons with a few other currently available slide materials....
Lenny plays a beautiful G.S. National Tricone and talks about slide sizing, fitting comfort & slide shapes - including general comparisons with a few other currently available slide materials....
...also included in Lenny's video are a few words about 'Diamond Bottlenecks', a photo-shoot of our workshop & specialist glassworking equipment - and the staff!
The above link is for all to enjoy the amazing "daddystovepipe" from Belgium - one of our 'unsung heroes' of slide guitar - using his red 'Ultimate' slide & matching 'Delta' resonator guitar!
Click on the link below to see & hear Fred Kinbom’s beautiful, haunting lap-slide playing, created using his collection of Diamond Bottlenecks crystal tone-bars.
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