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xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:38 pm

not a spectacular instrumentalist, don't have the patience/interest. picks are always flying out of my fingers.

then my pa found a quarter someone had ground a side into a pick shape. maybe cos it's money (or maybe cos it's thick) i can't seem to let go of it. somehow, using this thick plectrum totally works for my fingers, feels like i'm actually holding something.

seen a lot of bass players use quarters as picks, but never seen one ground down. makes it smallish, but good for guitar. best use for a quarter yet.

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:40 pm

xoxos wrote:not a spectacular instrumentalist, don't have the patience/interest. picks are always flying out of my fingers.

then my pa found a quarter someone had ground a side into a pick shape. maybe cos it's money (or maybe cos it's thick) i can't seem to let go of it. somehow, using this thick plectrum totally works for my fingers, feels like i'm actually holding something.

seen a lot of bass players use quarters as picks, but never seen one ground down. makes it smallish, but good for guitar. best use for a quarter yet.

can we see a pic of your pick?

Robert Randolph · Post by **Robert Randolph** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:40 pm

xoxos wrote:not a spectacular instrumentalist, don't have the patience/interest. picks are always flying out of my fingers.

then my pa found a quarter someone had ground a side into a pick shape. maybe cos it's money (or maybe cos it's thick) i can't seem to let go of it. somehow, using this thick plectrum totally works for my fingers, feels like i'm actually holding something.

seen a lot of bass players use quarters as picks, but never seen one ground down. makes it smallish, but good for guitar. best use for a quarter yet.

Hum... great idea, I never liked quarters because the edges grabbed the strings weird... grinding one down sounds real neat.

t-willy · Post by **t-willy** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:42 pm

that's a cool idea for the quarter. i'd break too many strings though. and yes, a pic of the pick would be nice.

lates

t-willy

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:04 pm

I custom make guitar picks from brass, I have some that are close to 20 years old...

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:19 pm

my pa live sin (yes) hawai'i so this might be a hawai'ian thing, or ukulele? "thickness makes it good"

funny tho, to see you all posting like you've never seen one either. odd.

okay, everyone out to the shed and the grinder, off to your local with a sackful $5 ea.

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:22 pm

that's a first for me, too.

I dig heavy picks, especially on 12 guage strings

I'll have to try this out

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:24 pm

Cant do that over hear, its illegal to deface a coin of the realm.

Robert Randolph · Post by **Robert Randolph** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:26 pm

Kriminal wrote:Cant do that over hear, its illegal to deface a coin of the realm.

It's illegal in the states too heh.

TechnoWeeniePas · Post by **TechnoWeeniePas** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:27 pm

I know lots of basists that used quarters...they were constantly replacing strings...something about the metal of the quarter really wearing out the strings...dont really know the details. I have always liked the Jim Dunlop 1.5 and 2mm picks. They are a more substantial feel than the "heavy" picks you usualy find

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:31 pm

clueless wrote:
can we see a pic of your pick?

woah, careful there :)

yeah, no way for rock n roll, but for my senile style, okay.

iDavid · Post by **iDavid** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:34 pm

These are suppose to be the picks "The Edge" uses, played upside down, of course

http://www.apollosaxes.com/herguitpic.html

not exactly a quarter, but maybe someone is interested

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:40 pm

xoxos wrote:
clueless wrote:
can we see a pic of your pick?
woah, careful there

yeah, no way for rock n roll, but for my senile style, okay.

do you use the pick for senile acoustic or senile electric? Or both? I ask because I could never get on with picks, for ANY style of playing, but I'd still like to be able to play with one.

farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:41 pm

I never had much trouble with the big stubby...

Doesn't kill your strings as well

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:44 pm

Billy Gibbons uses a quarter and Brian May uses a six pence...but my brass picks rule.

here's the recipe:

2 or 3 sheets of hobby brass from a hobby store .015" thickness.

A pair of those shears they use (here they are called super shears) like for fireman and emt's...they'll cut a penny.

A dremel tool with emery drum.

Your favorite pick.

trace your favorite pick onto the brass, use the scissors to cut the brass and sand to taste. You can make about 30 in an hour. FWIW, many people assume I break a lot of strings, but I don't. Brass is much softer then nickle, but from time to time you need to take an emeryboard to the edges, they can get razor sharp...

quarter guitar pick