About "The Real
Bottlenecking Company"
 
 
 
         
 
 
 
 
      
 

THE ORIGINAL CORICIDIN BOTTLE GUITAR SLIDE,
BY THE REAL BOTTLENECKING COMPANY

 
     
 

Inspired by real life, the great slide guitarists played using Coricidin. Cough & Cold Medicine bottles straight from their medicine cabinets. Whether or not the medicine worked, the tones that legendary bottle could evoke from the guitar were certain to cure whatever ailed you.

Lightweight and small, exactly the right feel and weight for quick, sure positioning, the bottle fit nicely on the finger with just enough play for sensitivity, and could make a guitar sound like nothing else. The resonance and sustain offered by the Coricidin. bottle was unattainable from metal or other glass slides.

  
     
 

Generations of slide players used it, but in the late Seventies the glass Coricidin. bottle was banned under Federal child-proofing regulations. The new plastic bottles were safer for kids, but no bargain for the slide guitar afficionados who had come to depend on the resonance and sustain achievable with Coricidin. bottles, and found themselves paying up to $20.00 apiece (in 1975 dollars!!!) for the original bottles scavenged from the back of medicine cabinets.

  
     
 
     

In 1985, Scott "Blue" Bernstein invented a Pyrex re-creation of the Coricidin. bottle after the glass medicine bottles were removed from the market. Scott founded The Real Bottlenecking Company to market his original Coricidin Guitar Slide.

Seventeen years ago, The Real Bottlenecking Company painstakingly re-created the legendary Coricidin. medicine bottle for serious guitar players. A true American original, the original Coricidin Guitar Slide was not only the first and finest available anywhere, it's also a legend in guitar history, used by generations of bluesmen and made famous by Duane Allman, who used it throughout his career.

 
     
 

Each Original Coricidin Guitar Slide is hand-made from Pyrex. and subjected to quality control procedures that ensure a perfect glass slide in every package. Real Bottlenecking's slide is hand-lathed from Pyrex. on a glass-lathing machine, then each slide is torched and annealed in a specialized oven. The result is actually an improvement on the original bottle: Real Bottlenecking's slide is seamless (the original bottle was molded and had two seams), highly break-resistant, and has the warm tone and incredible sustain that built the legend.