2 3/4" x 1" bar

Rick Aiello · Post by **Rick Aiello** » 9 Feb 2001 2:02 pm

I just got this 1" x 2 3/4" bar made by Jim Burden and it is really fun. I have used the JB Dunlop 3/4" x 2 3/4" for years. I got the Pearse 3/4" x 2 7/8" bar for Christmas but found it to be too long. When I read that Jim could make any size bar I thought what the &%#$ and ordered this short-fat monster (at his price - I figured I can't go wrong). This thing is a blast.

Jim Burden · Post by **Jim Burden** » 10 Feb 2001 7:30 pm

Thanks for the kind words,I am having a ball making some strange looking bars for some for some great people.Thanks for the post,Jim Burden http://www.bulletbars.com

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Gerald Ross · Post by **Gerald Ross** » 11 Feb 2001 9:02 am

I have the same bar that Rick has. Jim Burden made it for me a few months ago. It is great! Top notch workmanship! Good price. Fast turnaround time.

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 11 Feb 2001 10:43 am

For nonpedal, I use a 7/8" bar that I had cut down to the 2&3/4" length. I also had the machinist to cut a recessed surface into the flat end, using a dime as a guide, (flush into the surface). This rim allows one to hold on to the bar better with your thumb when you do the slants that help make Hawaiian music so beautiful, and for which the great Mr. Byrd is so renoun.

I like the idea of the 1" diameter for a practice bar. I'm going to try it.

Rick

Gerald Ross · Post by **Gerald Ross** » 13 Feb 2001 5:34 am

Jeffstro,

I made a mistake in my last post. The bar that Jim Burden made for me is 7/8" x 2 3/4.
My hastily written reply stated 1" diameter.

I experimented with increasing the weight of the Dunlop 919 by popping off the end cap and filling the hollow center with lead fishing weights (pounded in by a hammer and old Phillips head screwdriver). This brought the weight of the 919 to 5 oz (from 4.3).

I can't remember the weight of the Jim Burden bar but it is very comfortable. Write to Jim he has the specs.

I now use both bars. The Burden for slower, "really milk the vibrato" type of tunes. The 919 for faster paced numbers.

Gerald Ross
Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website

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