Members confuseitall Posted December 30, 2003 Members Share Posted December 30, 2003 anyone play with wood picks? I've been working with some awesome wood lately and am thinking about making a few picks for fun. Any experience? I bet you'd get a pretty interesting tone.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members seven7 Posted December 30, 2003 Members Share Posted December 30, 2003 i have some made by ike gilbert. he's been making wooden picks for quite sometime out of different woods. most of the woods are exotic wood and they do sound different for sure. the wood does effect tone, but just in general the wooden picks i've used have a warm woody type sound (yah, imagine that a wooden pick sounding like wood lol). there is no pick material that i can even compare it to though..i haven't played with them in a while but still have them. i might actually pull them out again and mess with them, heh. i have a huge pick collection and go back through experimenting occasionally with what i have.here's where i got mine (ike gilbert's site):http://www.woodenpicks.com/btw, ike is a pleasure to deal with. and i bet he'd be fun for you to talk about making picks with even. he doesn't seem the type that would snob you b/c you want to make your own instead of buying his. although i suggest you buy one of his and you can see how someone with experience does it i even got him to send me a couple of proto-type picks with things to make a better grip on them. (holes, and filament embossed in the pick. pretty neat stuff). i don't think he has thos listed for sale, but he would make some probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members confuseitall Posted December 30, 2003 Author Members Share Posted December 30, 2003 sounds cool. I've been making jewelry boxes with assorted exotic wood and thought I could use some scrap. Thanks for the link I'll go check it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members confuseitall Posted December 30, 2003 Author Members Share Posted December 30, 2003 hey cool, I went to his site and one of the woods he uses is Coca Bola, which is the wood that inspired my idea in the first place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members seven7 Posted December 31, 2003 Members Share Posted December 31, 2003 Originally posted by confuseitall hey cool, I went to his site and one of the woods he uses is Coca Bola, which is the wood that inspired my idea in the first place! very cool!i actually have one of his coca bola picks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 4sidedoctagon Posted December 31, 2003 Members Share Posted December 31, 2003 That sounds like a great idea. has anyone ever used jellifish? or some weird pick i saw in a GW acoustic one time. the link ishttp://www.jellifish.com/ They're 10$ a pick, and i dont really know if its worth it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members seven7 Posted December 31, 2003 Members Share Posted December 31, 2003 Originally posted by 4sidedoctagon That sounds like a great idea. has anyone ever used jellifish? or some weird pick i saw in a GW acoustic one time. the link ishttp://www.jellifish.com/They're 10$ a pick, and i dont really know if its worth it i tried it. it's interesting...it wasn't for me really. your mileage may vary.i have a pretty big pick collection so i've tried a lot of diff ones.the jellifish was definitely one of the weirdest ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tws Posted January 1, 2004 Members Share Posted January 1, 2004 Those wood picks sound like a really cool idea. I think the jellifish pick is horrible. Cuts the crap out of your guitars finish if youre not careful. It does not give a chorus effect, or sound like strings. Piece of crap. Maybe if it had softer bristles it would be better. WHo knows. My .02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members newsdude477 Posted January 1, 2004 Members Share Posted January 1, 2004 aren't they prone to breaking? since they're not too flexible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tws Posted January 2, 2004 Members Share Posted January 2, 2004 I'd say they would probably break pretty easily...i havent used mine more than once so i wouldnt know! In fact i dont even know where mine is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members seven7 Posted January 2, 2004 Members Share Posted January 2, 2004 Originally posted by newsdude477 aren't they prone to breaking? since they're not too flexible? do you mean woodenpicks or jellifish picks? i was thinking you meant wood picks.in that case, i don't think they're prone to breaking. they will wear some, but it seems to me it would be really hard to break. i've never broken one while playing with it.you'd just have to try one and see. i don't play really hard personally. but it seems to me they'd be hard to break even with a harder playing style than mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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