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Guitar pick holder and pendant.

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#1 ·
Guitar pick holder and pendant.

Here's a simple scroll-sawn necklace pendant that holds two guitar picks. Enjoy!

 
#3 ·
Very cool Steve, looks like I have some presents in mind for a couple of my friends that are musicians!

That scrollsaw looks like the old Craftsman I used to have! Gave it to on old tool buff after the crank wore out, last I saw of it he had it working again!
 
#4 ·
Too much narration - we would have gotten the idea without you constantly talking over the music!

That is a very cool little project and a good tribute as well. A fine job Steve!

I will be making one of these in the next few days.

-bob
 
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Really cool, Steve! I loved to see you working on that scroll saw! Did you scroll the peace sign in the pick too? That would really be cool to do! (I would put a cat in my pick!) And you are going to think I am really stupid but I never thought of using double sided tape and a thicker board to get maximum thinness out of a planer. In the past, when it got to the max, that was it. I saw you do that and was (once again) surprised by my own stupidity (limitations). Great song. Great project. Awesome video. Your editing is getting fancier and fancier! Pretty soon you are going to start charging us to watch them like MGM!

Thanks for a great inspirational lesson!

Sheila
 
#10 ·
Sheila: Thanks for your comments. I really like that peace sign pick, but my son bought it. It's plastic. But it's funny you mentioned making it, because this whole project started out because I wanted to see if I could make a wood pick. It just evolved into the holder. I'd still like to try my hand at making a pick.

Can't take credit for the carpet tape idea. I'm pretty sure I learned about that from a posting on LJ some time ago. I was the same as you: once it got to it's thinnest, I quit. But how cool to make wood super thin! Opens up a new world of possibilities.
 
#11 ·
Neat Project Steve.

I tried several times as a teenager to make wood picks. When I got the wood thin enough to flex a little, as guitar picks need to do, the tip would break off. It has to be thin, flexible, and strong enough not to break. I have no idea what wood I used, I'd guess it was Pine, Oak, Cottonwood or Willow. I don't recall ever having any other woods in our shop.

Give it a shot. Someone on here should be able to recommend a strong flexible wood.
 
#13 ·
Dan - maybe if you used a tighter-grained wood such as maple it would hold up well and be a better choice for making a pick. The woods you mentioned are quite a bit softer and perhaps that is why you had such a hard time getting them to hold up. :)

Sheila
 
#14 ·
some of my highschool kids have attempted making guitar picks. They would spend weeks hand sanding a 1inch piece thin enough to be picks but heaven forbid I make them finish sand their bookshelfs.
one of their favorites for durability was taking plywood and sanding down so that you had a little bit of two different layers. It gave the cross grain strength that you need to play.
 
#15 ·
Nice project Steve, Gunna have to make some of those.
A local wood dealer i know makes guitar picks (thousands) and sells them at music festivals, he uses local hardwoods and some exotics. Apparently the shape and size of the pick affects the sound, and they cant have any flat spots. That's a lot of sanded fingers.

Andrew
 
#17 ·
Dan: Do guitar picks have to be flexible? Not being a player myself, I'm not sure. Doesn't Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top use a quarter instead of a pick? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else.
 
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Digger: Yeah man…Wyatt loves Metallica and knows some riffs. "One" is a good one. He like to play a lot of Nirvana too.

Dan M: I should have guessed about the peso! ZZ Top rules. Are they still around? Love that Texas sound.
 
#24 ·
so my wife ask what's that u watchin"???? says I… Steve (she knows)...

says my boy what's he a makin'???? ....says I….Guitar pick holder….

Oh by the way dad you gotta take me to the guitar shop I broke my last pick…..

Yep…that's my life says I to me….
 
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