well flushed with my success at mending the lavatory seat today. I cut the hoolahann thing in half - and I can tell you it is a great improvement! if anybody's got any doubts - don't hesitate - it works!

I haven't got the switch quite right, but it will do at a pinch.

The big revelation for me about slide playing came at Kevin Brown Slide Summer School. Kevin had a baritone Ovation, thick strings - low register. the other instructor had just an ordinary Martin with light gauge strings. They both had fantastic tone, and both said they could get the tone and volume with whatever slide was to hand. I then twigged - its not so much about the equipment eventually - its about the touch. HOWEVER, to get that touch initially and develop that control (over a period of years) you first have to go whatever give you optimum results.

my fingers are short and fat.

The best slide I know, belongs to Jack Hudson - he got someone to grind the neck of one of those blue Harvey's cream sherry bottles. A thing of genuine beauty.