Thank you for choosing a Diamond Bottleneck from our range of totally custom-made glass guitar slides. Each Diamond Bottlenecks glass slide is created in our workshop to your exact specifications and preferences to allow for total comfort & playing pleasure - a completely bespoke service to slide guitarists.

Whether your preference is for a slide to cover just two or three strings....or a 3-inch plus glass behemoth to cover the widest of fingerboards - a multitude of choices can be accomodated here in our workshop. Please allow me to take you through all the options before placing & confirming your order.

The Standard

The 'Standard' & 'Redhouse' Bottleneck Slide

Our 'Standard' & 'Redhouse' genuine bottleneck slides can be ordered to any slide length of personal preference. If you're new to slide guitar and just starting to find your way around available gear & technique, we recommend a slide length of 56 - 58mm. This measurement should cover the majority of guitar fingerboard widths comfortably, and allow ease of playing without the slide feeling cumbersome in use. Alternately, if you have experience of slide guitar, and own a slide you currently use & are happy with that particular length, we can match that length exactly with your new Diamond Bottleneck - just list your requirements on the appropriate webpage order form.

The Redhouse

Our 'Standard' & 'Redhouse' genuine bottleneck slides all have internal diameters of between 18 & 20mm, this being the common I.D. for all genuine wine/liquer/oil bottles. We do stock a variety of 'special'
bottles, so if your preference is for a bottle with a larger/smaller internal diameter; or you may need a tapered or curved side-wall, or for any other requirement that's not listed on our website then please contact us direct and we'll do our best to help find the bottle to suit your needs.
Wall thicknesses of genuine wine bottlenecks tend to vary between 2.5mm and 3.5mm in all of our light / dark green; clear or blue glass bottleneck color stock options; or 4.5mm with our 'Mike Dowling Signature' bottleneck and our cobalt blue sherry bottleneck slide.

The Ultimate

The 'Ultimate' hand blown lead crystal slide.

Each 'Ultimate' hand blown lead crystal slide is custom-made for every individual order by our resident glassblowers, therefore any internal diameter; slide length or current available color options can easily be accomodated - from a 2.0mm thick lightweight sidewall for lightning-quick, easily manoeverable electric slide leadwork to a hefty, 5.0 mm thick sidewall for optimum tone required on acoustic/resonator instruments - all can be created for you in our workshop. The 'flat-top'; 'domed-top' and 'tapered' interior sidewall options are all featured on the 'Ultimate' webpage - please browse at your leisure & let us create your perfect slide!
Guitar slides from our 'Ultimate' lead crystal range are usually described as having a 'hi-fi' tone, and tend to be the prefered choice for many professional slide guitarists. Due to the natural molecular structure of hand blown lead crystal these slides enable the player to acheive sweet sustain, superb tone and improved volume over regular wine-bottle glass slides - especially when used acoustically.

When completing the appropriate ordering form on the page of your slide preference, please tell us your ideal slide internal diameter, slide length and color choice offered with the 'Standard' or 'Redhouse' models, plus any of the extra style options you may require when choosing a piece from the 'Ultimate' range of lead crystal slides - and when we receive order confirmation here we'll reply to you as soon as possible with delivery times and any additional information we may require to fulfil your order.

With very many thanks indeed for your custom, from all at 'Diamond Bottlenecks' - Slide On!

Ian McWee, Guitar Slide Consultant - Diamond Bottlenecks, 2006.