We handcraft custom Wine Bottleneck Slides for slide guitarist...

Concerning the Photos of the slides on our website... The images have been resized to fit the required format. Some of the slides may look out of proportion. The photos are only to show you what the slides look like, and may not show the true dimensions...

We will gladly custom cut a Slide to any size you want with no extra charge.

Concerning sizing of slides:
Do to bottle industry standards the cork end of all wine bottles in the USA are about American ring size, 8 1/4 to a tight fit for 8 1/2.
The bottle base end of the neck can vary in size. However, a straight neck will be smaller at the cut end as compared to a curved neck that widens to the bottle body.
The wall thickness of the slide affects sustain and the sound in general. Thicker wall, more sustain but a heavier sound. Thinner wall a little less sustain but a lighter sound.

Concerning lengths: There are 2 lengths to consider.
1. The total length of the slide including the lip
2. The playing length of the slide that does not include the lip. The playing length should span the width of the neck at the nut
I will cut a custom length for you. You may send ring size metric measurements or inches for the inside diameter, no problem.

Keep in mind that diameters and lengths are restricted by the bottle size.

As a suggestion, You should measure from the web crotch of your finger to about the center of whichever slide finger you use to the fingerprint swirl on your finger tip pad.
This length will leave a little of the finger sticking out of the end of the slide to grip and control it naturally. The finger at rest is naturally bent, the tip of the finger over the edge of the slide will hold the slide without effort on your part. Thus reducing fatigue. But this is not a hard rule.

You can order any length that will conform to the restrictions of type of bottleneck that you choose.

A good idea is to send me the fretboard radius if you can, and the neck width at the nut and 12th fret.
Tell me what you want. I will try to choose a slide for you.
We don't buff out the seams, "micro-polish the surface", or anything like that. You simply play with the seams to each side.
We handcraft custom Wine Bottleneck Slides for slide guitarist, and will custom cut any length within reason.

If you were to think about this for a minute, you would soon realize the "Traditional Bluesmen" didn't have access to high-tech equipment or machinery. 
The traditional blues sound is not coming from a slide with a diamond like polished surface...

Available on the "Net" are slides made from "Pyrex", Laboratory tubing, Neon sign tubing, blown glass, ceramic made in the Junior College pottery class and just about anything somebody could think of as a gimmick...
They offer V cuts, notches, cutaways and who knows what else.
If you are thinking of using a Coricidin bottle for a slide, you had better find an old dump site and hope that you dig one up.
Unless you have a Coricidin bottle that is a pre-1980's bottle, you don't have a Coricidin slide because the FDA banned the bottles as a hazard to child safety.
The new so called real authentic bottles are actually not Coricidin bottles at all but are made of Pyrex glass...
The Coricidin fad was actually started in the 1970's. You would be hard pressed to find a photo of a traditional Mississippi Delta Blues Man with a Coricidin bottle on his finger.

They all promote and praise energetically these gimmicks as the world's best to solicit customers. But they aren't traditional.
If you want to use something like that, no problem...

Following in the footsteps of the Blues Guitar Giants we maintain the same distinguishing, time honored tradition that makes our slides stand apart.

Glass Colors, Amber (brown), Flint (clear), and mixed-color glass Green, Olive and Blue.  Cullet (Scrap Glass)

Markets for green glass, are glutted, there are almost no recycling markets for green glass on the East Coast. Five bottle manufacturing plants have closed in the last five years in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and New England, significantly reducing the number of market outlets available for green glass in the Northeast. The Canadian and European bottlers (notably Labatts, Molson and Heineken) are already using about 30% percent cullet in their bottles, using their own domestically recovered glass; they have little demand for imported American green cullet.
The investment of millions of dollars in improved glass sorting technology becomes questionable, however, when one considers glass's shrinking market share relative to other packaging materials. Not only have most soda and juice bottlers switched over to PET (and to a lesser extent aseptic containers), but increasingly food bottles and jars, liquor, beer and even wine are phasing out of glass and into plastics. It remains to be seen whether glass--and glass recycling--will be with us to stay.

Wine Bottlers Are Changing to a screw cap bottle and within a few years there will be no cork bottles available for slide making.

These prescription bottles are the best protection for your slide. They are free and easy to find.

Many of these "Experts" provide as one of their come-ons, a little bag...
A dedicated slide player will use their slide literally hundreds of times a year. Both in practice and during performance.
One of the most common causes for a glass slide to shatter is by taking the slide in and out of one of these little bags hundreds of times.
These little bags are inherently clumsy. Eventually the odds will come up against you and you will drop your slide. A very bad scenario is to drop your slide in the dark on a stage and have someone step on it in the dark.
A slide acts as a roller bearing and will cause sever injury to those that step on it. On the light side, picture yourself on the floor looking for your favorite slide in the dark.

You may not find the perfect slide the first time or even the second, but if you keep at it, you will find it and it will become a precious object! Take our advice and protect it!

Here is our recommendation for safe keeping your slide: If you are right handed, keep the slide in your "completely" empty left front pocket. No keys, no coins or anything at all. Your slide will settle to the bottom of the pocket easy to get out.
When not in use keep it in a prescription bottle as pictured above. These plastic containers are easily obtained and are free! Keep the slide in the plastic bottle in your case storage compartment or in the gig bag pocket.

The old-time players back in the day realized that the best sounds came from a good bottleneck and the very best were premium wine bottlenecks.
Not your cheap wine in a jug variety but high-dollar wine, bottled in thick premium glass to protect their precious cargo! These bottlenecks replicate the true authentic "Delta Blues" sound and enhance sustain of the electric guitar during all high and low notes and give riffs the true nature of the delta blues...
 
There is a huge difference between playing slide guitar and playing slide blues guitar.
I have seen banjo players that were darned good at finger picking, pick up a guitar and slide.
Then claim that they were playing the blues. They were sure good at it, but when they claimed that it was the "Blues",
I dang near busted out laughing...

Concerning those super-fine micro polished slides! Keep in mind that the old-time "Delta Blues Players" did not have micro polishing tools and equipment.
If you are looking for the true and authentic "Funky" sound, stick with the same quality slide as they used. No polishing...
Why fix what they have proven to be the best over ¾ of a century!

If you are looking for the smooth silky sound of a studio backup guitarist, then you should look elsewhere.

The wine bottling industry has standardized the wine bottle interior neck size at the cork end.
This sizing at the cork end translated to the American ring size of 8½. Therefore it follows that if you have a finger joint that is larger than 8½ you must reverse the slide and use the lip towards the tip of the finger. Otherwise you may use a double cut slide. When the lip is cut off the small end will then be about a size 9 more or less. If you wear a size XXL glove you will have to place the slide on your finger with the large end towards the web of your finger regardless.

Don't listen to the little men with the little fingers that say "I've been playing slide for 30 years and you are doing it wrong. You've got the slide on upside down!"
You look over the slides, pick out the one that suits you and put it on your finger any way you like!
There is no right or wrong way!