What is that bar clip that Melobar Ted uses?

[Eric Moon]

I've been getting tendonitis from picking up my bar, and that clip looks like just the thing.

Anybody know what that is?

BTW, love the playing and tone, Ted, on all those melobar vids. Great stuff!

[Brad Bechtel]

The Melobar Sure Grip bar, previously discussed here among other discussions. Good luck trying to find one!

[Steven Pearce]

Check out search results, this has been discussed lots. Good luck.

[Jerry Overstreet]

I talked to Ted about this. Seems like a good way to hold on while playing the slant neck Melobar but he doesn't have any left. I'd be interested as well provided they're not more valuable than the guitar.

[Eric Moon]

guess I need to fire up the CAD and see about printing one up. Good to have the photos of it!

Thanks all!!!!

[Ted Smith]

Hi Eric, Thanks for the kind comments, Brad and Jerry steered you right, the original was the Chase Bar which Dad bought the mold from the Chase widow in 1980 but it was at a L.A. foundry that I lost contact with when Dad died.
The one pictured is a machined version I sold in the 90's which was inbetween the Chase size and an Ernie Ball white dot which we used also. The plastic grips were dad's patent, before that he used a wire put into surgical tubing called the Ring bar, it had one hole drilled in the top then the wire looped like a ring - I'll put a video of me using that version because I use it a lot as well and like them both. (at :40)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALP_cE3A8C8

Melobar needed it with the tilted neck and moving around stage. The other bar I think is great for faster hammeron pulloffs and tip playing is the shubb GS-1

The Ring bar would be easier to duplicate. The SureGrip bar would need a bendable plastic that you'd heat and shape, we used to do it with just a large hot paint removing iron before we got molds for them.

Hope that helps, they are really hard to find out there these days.