Pickmaster

thebreeze

Does anyone else use these?  I love mine and dig the designs that can be had.  I'm particularly fond of using creditcards but they're just not quite perfect depth for me and ideally I'd like to use something slightly thicker.  Does anyone have an ideal source of plastic?  Can you recommend an alternative product to be plectrumed?

Phil_aka_Pip

The wife's tupperware? Those plastic cartons your chinese come in?

I too like used credit card - especially when I can get the embossed numbers to be where my thumb grips the pick

Sassafras

When I started out and thought you had to use a pick I used the snipped off teeth from combs.

stimpsonslostson

I've got one too, I quite like experimenting with different thicknesses & "flexiblilities" of plastic. The lids from take away cartons are indeed pretty good- I like a flexible pick, especially when playing my acoustic. 

I also got my wee girl to do LOADS from white paper & we used them as confetti at my brothers wedding (he's a guitarist too).

dern

Bought one as a present for my brother and couldn't cut a plectrum out of any kind of plastic, either tore or jammed.

thebreeze

stimpsonslostson said:

I've got one too, I quite like experimenting with different thicknesses & "flexiblilities" of plastic. The lids from take away cartons are indeed pretty good- I like a flexible pick, especially when playing my acoustic. 

I also got my wee girl to do LOADS from white paper & we used them as confetti at my brothers wedding (he's a guitarist too).

That's a great idea re confetti!  Somewhere there is the perfect lid waiting to be found by me.

Phil_aka_Pip

IIRC the lids from cottage cheese cartons weren't bad. When I was 16 I used to cut them up with scissors and file the edges

olafgarten

I know the new nectar cards are a perfect 0.88 mm thickness.

Sarge

DVD cases are great !

mudslide73

I can't play big picks any more due to me being a Jazz III user. The Pickmaster picks are a bit rough and I couldn't find anything that was thick enough for me that it would cut.

stimpsonslostson

There's a wee patch of sandpaper on the underside of the handle if you find your results a bit rough.

Phil_aka_Pip

stimpsonslostson said:

There's a wee patch of sandpaper on the underside of the handle if you find your results a bit rough.

wow I didn't know that. when I get home I'll look for it

Dave_Vader

I've had one of these for years, and just decided to use it this week. I took my old National trust membership card for the most middle class plectrum ever - with my name on no less. But I shredded 3 of them into very sharp hurty things within half a set last night. Any suggestions for something I can use that might feel like a 1mm dunlop like I've been using forever? And maybe not fall apart instantly with all the pick slides I do?
(I have a pocket full of shredded dunlops as well since I started using D'Addario Xl 10-52s, which sound awesome and last for more than two gigs as well)

Jack_

Yeah, I've got a suggestion.

A 1mm Dunlop.

People spend thousands on gear and then use a shit plectrum, why?

rico

Jack_ said:

Yeah, I've got a suggestion.

A 1mm Dunlop.

People spend thousands on gear and then use a shit plectrum, why?

Well said. 

Phil_aka_Pip

Jack_ said:

Yeah, I've got a suggestion.

A 1mm Dunlop.

People spend thousands on gear and then use a shit plectrum, why?

The 0,55mm rigid stainless one are better

merciful-evans

I do make my own picks but I'm guessing PM wont cut 6.mm thick perspex right?

carlos

merciful-evans said:

I do make my own picks but I'm guessing PM wont cut 6.mm thick perspex right?

I'd love to try those

Dave_Vader

Jack_ said:

Yeah, I've got a suggestion.

A 1mm Dunlop.

People spend thousands on gear and then use a shit plectrum, why?

I really don't though, I generally play the same shitty strat copy I've had since 1989 through an 80s Roland Cube and a bunch of cheap pedals.

And there is no tonal difference between the 1mm dunlop and the bit of an old credit card that I can hear.

I'm just trying to save money on a very small piece of plastic that gets shredded to unusability every gig I do.

I once had a couple of expensive picks, they too got shredded to nothing, and sounded no different.

YMMV