Guitar Picks

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Lid of Toshiba laptop

Vent of Toshiba laptop

CD - difficult plastic tends to shatter

cardboard

plastic packaging

Guitar Center gift cards

Fake cards that come in junk mail.

Starbucks cards

Old hotel room keys may contain personal information!

Handi Snacks stick, sanded to a rounded point.

Handmade guitar picks. Most are made from old plastic cards (gift cards, credit cards, hotel room keys, etc.) Other materials are cardboard, "Handi Snacks" stick, CD, Toshiba laptop, and plastic packaging.
I trace a store bought pick with an ultra fine sharpie, cut them out with scissors (for plastic), and sand the edges with an emery board. The metal ones are more complicated.

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TElliott2 says:

These are so cool. After you cut them out, do you sand the edges?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Stephie189 says:

These are great!

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Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Aud1073cH says:

@ TElliott2 - Yes, I sand the edges. I've updated the caption info with the basics of my process.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Philip Schexnayder says:

Very interesting, I might have to give this a try!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Acid! says:

I gave this a try... It's pretty fun, and what I made entertains me greatly... Took an old HANCOCKfabrics card... Not hard to guess what I did with that.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

furiobradyal says:

This is wicked cool, great style

You are my winner!
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` ®© ROBERTO CARBONI says:

Lovely just lovely .Congrats
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Ana_Cotta says:

Oi! Sou administrador de um grupo chamado Flickr Ideas Brasil [Poste 1 - Comente suas favoritas] e nós adoraríamos ter isto adicionado ao grupo!
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

maddogandnoriko says:

You can use a jeweler's saw(piercing saw, or coping saw to cut out cd picks. Who doesn't burn a coater once in awhile?
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

Uberninja says:

Cool! i'll have to try that sometime. My brother keeps on losing my guitar picks.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Love=Nayla (DWC) Kayla [deleted] says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Orginal Artists, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Light.Night says:

oh cool great idea, I hate amex sending me fake credit cards I might put them to use now :)
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Merry Christmas !!! [deleted] says:

very nice !! bravo !!!
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

simran gandhi says:

wao how did u collected these
i too tried bt after 5-10 it always got lost.......
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

simran gandhi says:

you only collect pletrums or u r a guitarist too...................
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

MusicalEinstein says:

Very Creative....cool....hi....yeah!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

kenziekathryn says:

haha i did this! it's a good idea, too. i do it all the time. :P
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

www.pickpunch.com says:

great website topic and post...... I did these for years and they work great. There is a tool coming out in 2009 called the pick punch the blog is at www.pickpunch.com
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

*rennie says:

Wow... I'm going to have to try this.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

dragonsrcool615 says:

That's so Awesome!!!!!!!!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Moi_SplAsH ! ! says:

really cool ! ! !
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

aquinas_college2 says:

hey i play guitar every day i now have 367 pics at my last count this is AMAZING how did u do it?
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

LisPark says:

You've got nice picks up there! Tried to make some for my own use before out of phone cards. Didn't last long, perhaps its with the quality of the plastic and not with the way I used it. Anyway, keep it up!

-Learning Guitar
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

yuszef says:

great idea!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

adam.haranghy says:

Hehe, very cool picks!
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

VaDeM says:

Rock and Roll!
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

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