Make Your Own Picks

[ErikH]

I have to get one of these. Out of picks and need one real fast? Punch it out.

http://www.pickpunch.com/

[lex666]

That is cool. Why didn't I think of that a long time ago?

[grumptruck]

I was just clicking on it thinking it would be a cheap thingie.

They actually sell Jazz shapes and derin!!!! to bad it comes in thickness' I wouldn't use.

[ErikH]

Looks like they've been around a while but this is the first I've seen the thing.

[lex666]

Kinda turned off by the idea that each pick will need to be sanded down... but its a small price to pay for fun and convenience.

I'd still get it. I'll use my regular picks to play and make my own just for fun.

[grumptruck]

if ur using tortex (delrin) just sandem down ur self when you wearem down.

[ErikH]

I don't mind sanding them a little to finish. It doesn't take much to smooth the edges of delrin.

[tc]

I saw it on some website some time ago and said I'd look into it sometime after, but forgot.

Honestly though, there's two things keeping me from going for it.

First, for $28-$30 (punch and a sheet) I can buy 42-45 EJ Jazz IIIs, or 84-90 Fender 351s (the two kinds of picks I use).

Buying Fenders off the shelf is actually the same price or even slightly cheaper than buying a punch and a sheet, because a sheet yields from 56 to 72 picks according to them (I'm guessing the higher number might be a bit stretched out). Sure, the punch will pay for itself after that, but it's gonna take a while. I go through about a dozen, maybe two dozen picks a year (and that's really stretching it!). By that logic it'll be almost a decade before I can say I saved money by punching my own picks.

Second, I'd probably have to find my own material because those are some p***y thin gauges!

[grumptruck]

I'd probably have to find my own material because those are some p***y thin gauges!

I was gonna make a similar post like yours... same one too. But I figured someone would have a fit.

[Bass_Medic_05]

Very cool!

[guitarkid]

That's a really cool idea! I've never seen those before.

[icantbuyafender]

Old drivers license picks.

how neat!

[tc]

All of us chinks come from the factory with the same software

[grumptruck]

All of us chinks come from the factory with the same software

My glorious perfection is tainted with hick.

[gibson175]

you can buy a lot of picks for 24.95

[TheLivingDead]

you can buy a lot of picks for 24.95

[Quencho092]

I can't stand paper thin picks. So limited in attack options- from light brushing to light brushing.....

[sstanfield]

This got me thinking about making my own acrylic picks. I really liked the thinner V-picks Vinnie sent me. I found a company on the net that has 12" square sheets of 1/16" red acrylic for $5 plus shipping. I wonder if the punch could handle the harder material, but it would probably only take a few minutes to cut one out on a scroll saw and smooth the edges. Fifty $4 picks for the price of five V-picks might be worth a little labor.

[Agileguy_101]

My brother got me one for my birthday. It's pretty cool. Wish he'd have got the jazz one, but he didn't think I'd like it. Of course, I only use jazz picks

It's pretty damn cool. It's more of a novelty, but how cool is it to make picks out of old CD's?

[sstanfield]

It's pretty damn cool. It's more of a novelty, but how cool is it to make picks out of old CD's?

So, it will cut CDs easily...?