Recently I lost my brass bottleneck - perhaps its rolled under the microwave, who knows.

Not being a hard man to please with this particular item - I went down to the music shop and got another medium John Dunlop.

Anyway when I got home I was amazed how much nicer the clean brass sounded - than the shitty old one I had lost. Makes sense really - after all new strings sound better.

does anybody else like a clean sound and if so - what do they keep the bottleneck in pristine condition with.

Also I suspect Iwould like to try a bottleneck with the surface of emery paper - has anybody got anything like this?