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Topic: Inexpensive cover for tone bar offers excellent protection |
Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 18 Oct 2017 11:18 am |
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These sheaths marketed for AA Maglites are great for protecting tone bars. Left to right: Empty sheath, with Maglite, with 3/4" Latch Lake (Broz-O-Phonic), with 7/8" Emmons bar.
I paid $4.00 apiece on eBay. |
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Jim Fogarty
From:
Phila, Pa, USA
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Posted 18 Oct 2017 4:48 pm
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| Good idea. Any room with the 7/8" bar? Wondering if a 1" bar might fit. |
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 18 Oct 2017 5:21 pm
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| The 7/8" bar is a snug fit, but it works. The 1" bar might be a bit of a stretch, but soaking the sheath in warm water a few minutes may loosen it up enough that the 1" bar may be inserted. Haven't tried it, however. |
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Lee Bartram
From:
Sparta, Kentucky, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2017 2:54 am
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buy a tube of M&M's mini's chocolate candy,eat the candy and use the plastic tube for your Bar 1 inch fits perfectly
cost about $1.00 |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2017 5:51 am
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What sort of activities are you contemplating wherin you would need your bars at the ready, all “holstered up†so to speak, but a solid bar of hardened stainless steel needs to be “protected†with mil-spec ballistic nylon? Do you, like, wrestle alligators during band breaks? I mean, we ALL know the reaper is a-comin' for us sometime, but if he shows up at a gig you're planning to pop him in the beezer with your steel bar and run like hell? I knew I shoulda stayed with the zither.... 
(Pat Ramsey was the Greatest Harmonica Player in the galaxy, ever. I knew these guys way back when, before they... didn't get rich & famous. For formal dress occasions Pat had this olive-drab belty thing designed to hold gun magazines. He filled it full of harmonicas and wore it across his chest, Pancho Villa-style.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwe-7pZyYUg ...they lock in around 19:30 ... Julien (guitar) is now a professor at Berklee 
Last edited by David Mason on 19 Oct 2017 5:56 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Slim Heilpern
From:
Aptos California, USA
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Bill Terry
From:
Bastrop, TX
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Posted 19 Oct 2017 5:59 am
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| I use a Crown Royal bag... of course you have to use up the whiskey, but the bag is so nice I don't really mind. |
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David Cubbedge
From:
Toledo,Ohio, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2017 8:18 am
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Haha!! I was going to post a picture of my bar 'bag', provided at some cost by Crown Royal! Bill, you beat me to it!
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 4 Apr 2019 10:57 am
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The new AA Maglite Nylon Full Flap Holster AM2A056 will fit both 7/8" and 15/16" tone bars without a problem. Under $3.00 on eBay.
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 4 Apr 2019 2:15 pm
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| David Mason wrote: |
| What sort of activities are you contemplating wherin you would need your bars at the ready, all “holstered up†so to speak, but a solid bar of hardened stainless steel needs to be “protected†with mil-spec ballistic nylon? |
I guess I'm of a similar mindset. Either that, or David and I have more in common than I had thought! 
Anyhow, I guess you could say here's how I roll...probably hundreds of items - bars, picks, hardware, pliers, screwdrivers, cutters, nuts, fuses, tuners, clips, pitchforks, earplugs, bolts, screws, all together and...well, you get the idea.
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 5 Apr 2019 7:43 am
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What's wrong with your pocket? 
Erv |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 5 Apr 2019 8:18 am
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It looks a little like salad Donny.
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Kristen Bruno
From:
Orlando, Florida, USA
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Posted 5 Apr 2019 4:59 pm
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I use an empty plastic prescription pill container.
One for bar and one for picks.
K
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 6 Apr 2019 9:38 am
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A ditto for the M&Ms containers- I have several that are years old, the wife loved the chocolate and even the hinges still work fine. They also come in different colors if you have different kinds of bars. Free stuff rules.
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Don R Brown
From:
Rochester, New York, USA
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Posted 6 Apr 2019 11:01 am
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| Erv Niehaus wrote: |
What's wrong with your pocket?
Erv |
All the women get to pointing and smiling!
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 7 Apr 2019 5:34 am
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Not a problem, I put mine in my back pocket.
Erv |
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Don Poland
From:
Hanover, PA.
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Posted 7 Apr 2019 6:28 am
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| Lee Bartram wrote: |
buy a tube of M&M's mini's chocolate candy,eat the candy and use the plastic tube for your Bar 1 inch fits perfectly
cost about $1.00 |
...and if you get the long tube, your picks will also fit inside  |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 7 Apr 2019 7:05 am
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| Joachim Kettner wrote: |
| It looks a little like salad Donny. |
Nah, just a box of random junk and tools. For myself, I can't see a reason to "protect" something that that I regularly slide/scrape/bounce against hardened steel strings. It's kinda like a carpenter buying a padded case for his hammer. 
Anyhow, I've "carried" my main bar that way, jumbled in that plastic junk-box, for 53 years. It's the same bar I still use today, the one I bought at the old Sho~Bud store on Broadway back in 1966.  |
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Ken Byng
From:
Southampton, England
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Posted 7 Apr 2019 11:29 am
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Slim Heilpern
Thanks for the tip. I have ordered an all in one case for 7 units (bars). A cheap storage unit. 
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