Black Mountain Slide Guitar Rings - Made From Tungsten Steel. Acoustic Guitar Slide, Electric Guitar Slide, Bass, Ukulele, and More. Almost as Hard as Diamond, Smooth Surface Finish, New Invention

Playing slide on a bass gives you three things:1) Clean fretless-like slides on fretted basses, and;2) Bow-like vibrato and tone on long droning whole notes, and;3) A new tone to add to your arsenal of tones.I use mine on both fretted and unfretted basses because I've found I get an even cleaner slide on unfretted bass if I use the slide rather than just my finger (I know it may sound crazy, but it's true).Here's why this particular slide is the perfect slide for bass guitarists: Playing slide on a bass guitar is a very different thing than on 6 string guitar.First, we need to be able to quickly transition from slide to fretting. Second, we're grooving rather than soloing and only throwing in the slides as an occasional flourish rather than as our dominant tone. Third, we're typically only playing single notes - or at the most double stops - rather than chords.Full-finger slides tend to "take over" and make it so the ONLY style that you can use while it's on is slide. As a result, a traditional full-finger slide isn't the right choice for us. (trust me I've tried - it sux!)We need something more like a knuckle slide. But there's a problem there too: Most knuckle slides are too wide for the string spacing of most basses and too loose to give us the level of control that we need over our sliding. In addition, ALL traditional slides - be they of ANY length - take out one of our fretting fingers thus inhibiting our ability to fret efficiently.This slide fixes all those problems. Furthermore, the tungsten steel that they use cuts down on string noise on full-wound strings (which is all that I use - I hate flatwounds).Trust me I tried them ALL before I landed on this slide - the rest are a waste of time and money. THIS is the slide that you need if you play bass.I bought three (including the previous generation egg-shaped one) and I use them all.P.S. This slide comes with some great tips on how to slide - read them, they're "gold". Even better is the video that they recommend in those tips, it's superb!

The Medium is a perfect fit for my finger. Was surprised by the weight, but the density makes for great tone. Well-designed. Stay in place on my finger until I’m ready to belt out some screaming tones.

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When ordering, please read the sizing chart very carefully. I bought this for my ring finger and using the standard ring size. However, the spring seemed to not hold enough pressure, and it would move around. When I asked support if they had anything that could tighten the springs, they informed me that it was meant to be placed on the middle finger. When I tried to add it to my middle finger, it fit much better, but the width was just a bit too wide for me to really use that finger and bend it for playing (when not using the slide).Additionally, I lost 115 pounds since I bought the slide. So now I have to go back and repurchase the smaller size. Well worth the investment.However, it works, and it works great. I love the sound. You do not get the full bar slide sound, but it is not designed for that. You really get to concentrate on specific strings to emphasize the slide with full accompanying sounds.My only suggestion are:Please change the sizing from "small fingers, regular fingers, large fingers" into something more specific. My fingers are small compared to my father, but regular compared to my friends. So it was a toss-up of what size to actually order. Also, for the smaller size, if you could take a millimeter off the width to help the fingers bend, that would be awesome.

I’ve got mixed feelings here. This slide ring is well made. I don’t think it’s insanely overpriced and may very well be close to production cost, but it’s still asking a lot for what it’s trying to do.First I’ll address sizing. Man, some people are helpless. Yes, if they’re going to sell rings in different sizes online then the least they could do is supply a size chart. Especially if they already have one on their website and just haven’t bothered to copy it over to the Amazon listing, despite all the reviews going “No size chart!!” Well yeah, that’s rather lazy of them. Then again, the size chart I found isn’t that great so maybe more trouble than it’s worth.So before I bought this I decided to make the superhuman effort of Googling “Black Mountain slide ring size chart” first. Went to their site, looked at size chart, measured my finger then ordered. I was right over the edge into Extra Large. I got it and…it’s massive. The only way it sorta stayed in place was the spring plate. If I’d decided to keep this I would’ve traded a size down. I remember I was surprised it said I needed an XL as I don’t have particularly large hands and I’ve ordered rings before and had them fit just fine.Anyway, assume you’ve got the right size and all that is hunky dory. I’m a guitarist but I’ve segued over the bass more the last decade. So my main purpose was bass and saw reviewers say it worked for that. Well, being really careful I could slide one string. This ring fit about perfectly the space between two bass strings so that’s a drawback, kept slotting into the groove. But they do suggest practicing for several hours and I agree with that. But is it worth it doing all that?Here was my thought process: ideally you’d get to where you’re comfortable using this and could throw in slides without sacrificing as many fingering options as you would with a traditional slide. Sure, theoretically could work that way. This is a big steel ring so it’s really heavy. So you’re going to need to relearn a lot. It’s kinda like wearing wrist/ankle weights while working out, but for just one of your fingers. Many of us are familiar with the transition period when you go from acoustic to electric or bass to electric or bass to nylon acoustic (that one’s fun). Basically it takes a minute to readjust your brain, different dexterity and strengths involved, etc. So I had to ask myself, do I really want to learn how to play with this big ass ring dragging my finger down? All so I can pull off a little slide sometimes? No, decided not so much. Maybe if it wasn’t 40 bucks. Maybe the smaller one wouldn’t be so heavy. I could afford it but it’s the principle of the thing.I was on the fence and leaning towards retreating when something else occurred to me that clinched it. I was curious about the spring plate. Appears to be slotted into the ring on the sides. I circled in yellow the part that concerns me. Again, this thing weighs a lot. I actually did the math but couldn’t find anything common that weighed the same. It’s like half a can of soda, with the liquid. Anyway, if the spring plate is held on by two plastic tabs protruding into a recess on either side of the ring, and if said rings is, again, very heavy, and if I predictably drop it at some point as I’m sure to do: there’s good odds one corner of that spring plate could snap off and I’d be left with a massive heavy ring that might maybe fit my thumb, that I’d never want to wear anyway. Maybe there’s a metal bar inside the spring plate to support it more but even then I don’t think that would prevent much if you dropped this on a hard surface and it hit on the side.Anyway, it’s a cool idea. I feel bad criticizing when I don’t have an alternate solution. I’m really not a big slide player anyway so I’m not the target demographic. I was just hoping to add some slides and maybe some fretless vibrato. Maybe if I was still in my 20’s and had more time, something to prove. It’s hard learning something new after so long, no fun sounding bad again. It’s a cool idea but needs work. I’d say make it out of titanium but I already complained about it being too expensive. Aluminum probably wouldn’t cut it. I don’t know. If it was cheaper I probably would’ve kept it. I guess the manufacturer has some math to do, if sales get returned a lot then you’re on the right track but not there yet.But seriously, you guys waited for my lazy posterior to put up a size chart? I took me two months just to finally review this and I just saw it 6+ months before I bought it but still no size chart. I’m prone to procrastination myself but if it’ll help my profits I get moving a lot sooner. People rely on the “free for me” returns too much as it is. It’s getting paid for somewhere. Better to just give customers basic information about your product so they can make an informed decision the first time. It certainly couldn’t hurt.If you like slide guitar, but only on a couple strings, and like working out one finger at a time, and don’t mind thwacking a big heavy ring against your fretboard occasionally, and won’t drop it much, and think that’s worth 40 bucks, well then this is the ring for you. Many customers seem quite happy with it so it’s not a bad product. But it’s clearly not for everyone and at a price where impulse buying is less common. If you’re curious about slide guitar then I’d of course recommend trying a cheaper conventional slide first. They all take practice but this one more so/less intuitive. I really wonder what it’d be like taking this off if you had gotten used to playing with it on. Would you just fret with your (probably middle) finger way harder? Amusing to consider. I bet you can flip a strong bird in traffic after using this awhile. Bonus.Anyway good luck. I’d round down on finger measurements, or measure your finger against a quarter as that’s about the inner diameter of the extra large size. I expect most will be fine with the normal size.

Guitar players, give me your attention. This device is an excellent tool to allow you to play slide while keeping your fingers available to play chords. It is spring loaded so it stays on your finger and it functions beautifully! WELL WORTH the small price!