MagSlide, a new patent-pending guitar slide made from magnesium, the lightest structural metal on earth.
Wilmington, NC, USA (May 31, 2018) — MagSlide, a revolutionary new guitar slide made of magnesium will launch with a KickStarter campaign on Sunday, June 3, at 4pm EDT, before it debuts to the music industry at-large at Summer NAMM in Nashville, TN, June 28-30.
To call the MagSlide a game changer for slide guitar players might be something of an understatement. MagSlide actually defies nearly all conventional wisdom and years of tradition for slide players wherever they may be coaxing the emotional cry out of any guitar—from a delta resonator, to a Strat or Les Paul.
Modern guitarists select their slides based on key elements; tone, touch, weight and material. Their choices have remained unchanged for generations: glass for light touch and warm tone, or metal for sharper tone and sustain. And any guitarist who spends any time at all playing slide will say weight equals sustain and material equals tone—metal is heavier than glass and so sustains better, but glass sings a warmer song. That wisdom has been true—until now.
“MagSlide is the result of another product my dad and I were developing using magnesium,” said T. J. Carter, co-inventor of the MagSlide. “We had a piece of magnesium tube and wondered how it might work as a guitar slide. The tone and playability were immediately obvious when we tried it, so after a year of engineering, prototyping and testing the result is the MagSlide, a custom molded guitar slide which has exceeded everyone’s expectations” Carter said.
Magnesium offers uncompromising sustain and warm tone while weighing in at five times lighter than brass, 75 percent lighter than steel, and 33 percent lighter than glass. Because MagSlide is lighter than the typical slide it can be played on lighter gauge strings with lower action, not just on a guitar especially set up for slide playing.
The MagSlide is designed with interior contours to permit air flow around the finger for comfort while playing, and is plated with an ultra-smooth black chrome finish, resulting in minimal string noise on both acoustic or electric guitars.
Magnesium, which is extracted from sea water is eighth most abundant element, and lightest structural metal on earth. Because of its high strength and low density it is widely used in the aerospace industry, as well as for high-end consumer products such as camera and laptop computer housings, tennis rackets, golf clubs and inline skate frames.
For more details on the upcoming Kickstarter campaign and product launch log onto www.PlayMagSlide.com.
