Hi Dogbite
Welcome to the Bottleneck Forum
I hope this place continues to grow and become more active.
Your introduction was more about your Gear than you personally as a player, but thats cool too. I love to talk Gear. I'm into boutique amps, pedals, all kinds of stuff.
I have several different guitars I like to
slide on, for different things.
For an acoustic I use a Takamine single cut Dreadnaught shape. I think its a F-150. Its discontinued, about 20 years old. Great guitar- takes a beating, always sounds good acoustic or electrified. I put 12-56s on it and the neck doesn't move. I like to play that one in open G, or even A to make it ring louder.
I just got my very first resonator yesterday. I'm pretty excited about it. I went to the NAMM show and played dozens of them from all the major manufacturers who were there. I settled on....
A Martin Alternative II Resonator.
Here's a link:
http://www.elderly.com/new_instrumen...s/ALTX2RES.htm
I'll start another thread to discuss it over there.
I'm just starting to get acquainted with Lap Steel. I bought a 6 string from Fouke Industrial Guitars on Ebay. I think its fine and suits my needs at present. I'm playing in C6 tuning and having fun with it.
For electric I slide on most of my guitars without any problem since I favor medium strings and pretty high action.
I do have a 57 Les Paul Jr. that is killer for P-90 sounds. I also have a mid 70's Gibson 335 set up for slide with the bridge raised high up and 12-58s on it. That guitar is really sweet for slide, and can go from Elvin Bishop to Dave hole type stuff.
My two strats are both active and hot-rodded for slide work with the EMG SPC midboosts and EXP mid-cut controls in place of regular tone pots.
Frankenstrat1 is a SRV Brazilian RW neck on a mid 60s alder body. That has the EMG Dave Gilmour pickups, the other one is my main squeeze- a real '55 maple neck with big fat worn down frets. I got a 56 Custom Shop Relic body for it (2 tone burst) and Chris Kinman helped me put together a harness with his Woodstock Plus pickups married to the EMG tone pots. That Strat blows everyone away that hears it.
I feel very fortunate to have accumulated some wonderful gear that I really enjoy, and I just try to play well enough to be worthy of it.
Oh yes- Nunwell Glass Slides, Rock Slide Brass.
If anyone wants to talk amps and pedals, well- thats another topic entirely, isn't it?