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Topic: what do you keep your bars in? |
Ron Victoria
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2009 2:18 pm |
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I made a cardboard tube to keep my new red rajah in. It's ok but was looking for a suggestion that might be better.
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 3 Feb 2009 4:52 pm
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| what do you keep your slides in? |
These, of course!
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Adam Gejdos
From:
British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 3 Feb 2009 5:24 pm
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I picked up a cheap makeup bag from the dollar store. It's about 5 x 5 inches with a side pouch with snap button. It cost about $5 and holds my Shubb (for dobro), Jerry Byrd bar and picks. I have a habit of forgetting things so I put everything needed for lap and dobro all in one place no matter if I bring one or the other, or both guitars.
It kinda looks like these but with an extra compartment on the side.
http://thewholesaleplanet.com/product_info.php?cPath=26&products_id=611 |
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Stephan Miller
From:
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2009 6:07 pm
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| My Tribotones each arrived in a hard plastic tube with a stopper at the open end. Ditto for various Red Rajahs and Black Phoenixes, except the tubes are cardboard. I received a Slipperyslide bar in a little cloth bag with a drawstring that'll hold 2 bars-- that's the one that takes up the least space. |
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 4 Feb 2009 8:30 am
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I use a Crown Royal bag for my favorite bar.....JH in Va.
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Todd Weger
From:
Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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Posted 4 Feb 2009 8:50 am Altoids boxes
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I use Altoids boxes. I can fit two bars, and my finger/thumb picks in there. They fit great in my accessories compartment in the guitar cases, everything is easy to find, and as a bonus, you get to eat the Altoids beforehand. They're curiously strong!
Oh yeah, I have the old (now discontinued I think) cinnamon flavor boxes with Sindy on the cover!
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Ray Shakeshaft
From:
Kidderminster, Worcs, UK.
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Posted 4 Feb 2009 9:43 am
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| Cases for those small digital cameras can occasionally be found extremely cheap in supermarkets (£1/$2) and they will fit on your belt. I now wish I had bought more because they are handy for lots of things musical...and even small digital cameras!. |
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 4 Feb 2009 11:58 am
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| If you know anyone who is giving up the cancer sticks, the tubes that Nicorette gum are distributed in are the best storage, bar none. Very thick plastic with a nice slick lining inside, and large enough to accomodate almost any size bar. I use lipstick holders for my dobro-type bars (stevens style bars), you can get them for a buck or two at lots of places. |
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Bill McRoberts
From:
Janesville, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2009 12:41 pm
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I've used small leather bags until recently.
One was from a pepper spray kit (you gotta have a good woman to give up one of those). A couple of months ago, I started using the digital camera case like Ray stated earlier.
I also use a simular case made for a nebulizer. Same price at the drug store and just as compact.
Here is photos of the Digital camera case. It fits nicely in my pack-a-seat.
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Ray Shakeshaft
From:
Kidderminster, Worcs, UK.
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Posted 4 Feb 2009 3:39 pm
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| Well I'll be damned Bill!!!!! That is exactly the same case as mine only mine is silver!!!!!....and how far do we live apart? |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 4 Feb 2009 3:50 pm
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Here's another vote for the M&M Minis containers. Be sure to wash them out first, or your bar will smell like chocolate. They hold a bar and set of picks pretty well, and if the container breaks, you're only out 75 cents.
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Bill McRoberts
From:
Janesville, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2009 7:54 pm
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Light years? ...No. Half a world?...Perhaps but, its a small one  |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 11:13 am
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I use a an old sunglasses case that has to be at least 50 years old. I can get two bullet bars into it.
I have a little padded pocket in the steel's case for my Stevens bar as well. |
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George Rout
From:
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 7:21 pm
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I'm sure you didn't mean this type of box, but this is what I keep ALL my bars (and writst pins) in!!!!! The little pouch in the right foreground is what I use to keep my playing bars in such as my Shubb SP2. I have three of these, one for each of two steels I use ongoing and my Dobro.
Geo
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 7:31 pm
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I keep them in my cases and gig bags so I don't forget them! Also, always keep one in my pocket on gig nights.
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George Rout
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 7:44 pm
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Mike, your comment "so you won't forget them" hit right home. When I return from playing, I take the guitar and bar/pics out of the case, put the guitar on a stand, and the case in a back room. The picks and bar sit on an amp right here. For the first time in 40 or so years two weeks ago, I arrived at a venue only to have left the bar & picks home. It was because I changed cases, took the guitar and bar/picks out of one case, was in a hurry, and forgot to put them in the 2nd case. FORTUNEATELY, a chap who plays both Dobro and steel came and he had two bars with him, one was an SP2 same as I use. And, I also was only a half block away from a music store that has Stevens. That was close!!!!! Maybe it's a new "senior's moment".
Geo
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Stephen Wells
From:
Jackson, Mississippi
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Posted 6 Feb 2009 4:58 pm
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I keep my Sheerhorn bar and my picks in the case that a pair of cuff links came in. I got the idea from Gene Crownover.
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Dave Bader
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2009 5:01 pm
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Pete Hunt
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2009 12:41 pm Where I keep 'em
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| I keep a couple of bars in cases and my favorite speed bar (right now a cut down Robert Randolph #1) in my gig bag in a zippered pouch. Then in my pack I carry around some picks and an old stevens bar tied up in a sock. Yep, a sock. I'm right now headin' to the store for some mini M&Ms. I'm going modern. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Keith Cordell
From:
San Diego
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Posted 7 Feb 2009 4:10 pm
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You hippies and your newfangled green technology...
OR
So that's what the president meant when he said "renewable resources"... |
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Ron Victoria
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2009 4:20 pm
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Doug,
I hope you licked them off before playing!!!! |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Bob Simons
From:
Kansas City, Mo, USA
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Posted 9 Feb 2009 9:27 am
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I use small plastic boxes designed for fishing tackle. With a snip or two of the dividers the small ones can be made to hold a bar in one compartment, with three others smaller compartments each big enough for a set of picks or a tuning wrench. The larger plastic tackle boxes can be modified to hold an assortment of bars and accessories. THey are available at most hardware and sporting goods stores.
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Richard Shatz
From:
St. Louis
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Posted 9 Feb 2009 5:16 pm
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