The 'Evolution'

Copyright © 2005   (Design Patent Registered 9/08)

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"Tom Doughty is possessed of a deep musical soul, that magic link between feeling and movement which makes the slide guitar such an individual instrument. His touch is wide-ranging, and his music is full of big feeling. In a world of derivative and imitative slide guitarists, Tom's sound is unique and special."

Bob Brozman, May 2005.

Tom Doughty is a truly unique slide guitarist in a world where that term is seriously over-used & abused. We got to know Tom through originally supplying him a couple of custom-made 'Ultimate' lead-crystal glass slides - but to facilitate Tom's amazing slide style he needed extra weight without increased slide diameter.

Necessity being the mother of invention, Tom designed and created the prototype of this featured slide & asked the team at Diamond Bottlenecks to produce his idea of what we consider to be the perfect all-round guitar slide.

Tom uses his slide constantly, proclaiming it combines perfect weight & balance without the bulkiness of other 'traditional' slides - and after two years & thousands of hours of playing in both live & recording situations the slide still performs to Tom's exacting expectations giving awesome tonal range, speed & pitch which no other slide can possibly allow.

Having the weight of heavy stainless steel & the tonal textures of pure glass in one complete package, this slide is perfect for intricate, balanced runs & has proved both rugged & hard wearing - as Tom says "I've dropped it a dozen times so far and it's still in one piece - the sure sign of a hard working slide player!".

This is such a truly unique slide we call it "Evolution" -comprising both the weight of steel & the tone of glass - one half being heavy, highly-polished stainless steel & the other half being a toughened glass insert bonded together as a tube, offering two playing surfaces from a single slide using the weight of the steel to offer a smooth, sustaining glass tone from one 'face', and a sweet, biting steel tone from the other ~ a true "Evolution"!