The Rock Slide- Not Just A Piece Of Pipe! Polished Brass: This is the slide that started the Rock Slide® revolution in 1999. Features include a tapered interior, finger rest, knuckle cutaway & a highly polished finish. Specifically designed to improve the way you slide and sustain! Nickel: Nickel plated-brass Rock Slides are a great combination of tone and string feel. They are slippery like glass, but have the weight and long sustain of brass. Unlike the polished brass slides, they remain slippery for a very long time. Aged Brass: If you are into tweed and worn out looking gear these are for you. Tonally they sound like a standard brass Rock Slide®, but they resemble something from the bottom of the Bayou. We individually hand age these using a multi-step recipe of destruction. They have a perfectly smooth finish for playability. Each slide is aged by hand. Appearance WILL vary from slide to slide. Some look like the picture, some come out with more black, some come out with gold or leopard spots. SIZING SMALL ROCK SLIDES are the sports car of the slide world, very light weight and extremely fast. Ideal for the guitarist who needs to play chords but wants to throw in pinky slide chops. It also works well on the ring finger of many women. MEDIUM ROCK SLIDES are a perfect weight for most styles, heavy enough for long sustain on acoustic guitars, but light enough to easily control for fast electric playing. LARGE ROCK SLIDES are one of the heaviest on the scene. This makes for killer sustain on the thickest of string gauges and a down-right dark sound. WHAT SIZE DO I NEED? First and foremost, you can always email or call Danny for help. He’ll talk your ear off and knows all about these. Not all situations and fingers are the same and there is also a degree of personal preference that can’t always be figured out with a measurement. For the majority of customers, these processes below will work. Method 1: Jewelry Store The most accurate way to size your finger is to stop by your neighborhood jeweler and get your ring size and also the diameter of the ring in Metric or USA. If you find that your large knuckle is somewhere around 19mm a medium will be a great choice. We have personally gone to dozens of jewelry sellers ranging from high end, mall stores and even Fred Meyer. None of them have ever charged for the service which takes about 60 seconds. More importantly they have all given us the same size on a given finger. Method 2: Measure with Wrenches If you have access to a set of Metric or USA box wrenches you can very quickly measure your finger. To measure any finger size, use the OPEN END (not the ring end as it could get stuck) of the wrench. Find the size that slides over the large knuckle snugly like how a ring fits. If it floats over your knuckle without touching the skin then go the next size down. Method 3: Paper Wrap Alternately, you can measure with the good ol’ paper and ruler trick. To do this you’ll need a sharpened pencil, a 3-4″ long strip of tape or paper and a ruler. Snugly wrap the tape or paper around the largest knuckle on the subject finger. With the pencil make a mark where the paper or tape overlaps. Measure the length to get the circumference of your finger. Use a circle calculator, punch in the measurement i.e. 2.5″ into the circumference field and solve for the radius which in this case will be .79″. ARIEL POSEN SIGNATURE Ariel has become a staple in songwriting, singing and certainly slide guitar. His guitar slide is a stretched out version of our original small brass balltip. The balltip adds even more weight for long sustain and gives the ability to play on the tip. Served up 3 different ways in polished brass, nickel plated brass, or aged brass. For a longer/larger version of this slide check out our line of balltip guitar slides. 17.5mm x 59mm Ring Size 6-8 BRASS & NICKEL ROCK SLIDES Size SKU I.D. mm Length mm Weight g SM TRS-SB 17.5 47.5 40 MD TRS-MB 19.5 57.5 70 LG TRS-LB 21 59 100 XL TRS-XLB 22.5 59 75 Balltip Rock Slide Size SKU I.D. mm Length mm Weight g SM BTRS-SB 17.5 57 45 MD BTRS-MB 19.5 70 85 LG BTRS-LB 21 71 135
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