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black · June 23, 2011, 12:40:51 PM

http://designyoutrust.com/2011/06/22/make-your-own-pick-using-recycled-credit-cards/

bass sic · June 23, 2011, 01:43:28 PM

I know a guy who made a die and was punching picks out of lp's. Nice and grippy, but if he punched them out of a country record your metal would probably sound twangy.

black · June 23, 2011, 02:20:35 PM

Haha!

black_out · June 23, 2011, 04:39:36 PM

Quote from: bass sic on June 23, 2011, 01:43:28 PM
I know a guy who made a die and was punching picks out of lp's. Nice and grippy, but if he punched them out of a country record your metal would probably sound twangy.

That sounds awesome! I tried making some picks at work out of ultem (the shit dunlop ultex are made from) and I kept fucking up trying to bevel the edges.

black · June 23, 2011, 08:48:28 PM

Were you using a dremel to bevel them? What about a wood burning tool or soldering gun?

RacerX · June 23, 2011, 08:50:11 PM

My picks are made outta human skulls.

Okay, not really, but it felt cool to type that.

black_out · June 23, 2011, 09:04:27 PM

Quote from: black on June 23, 2011, 08:48:28 PM
Were you using a dremel to bevel them? What about a wood burning tool or soldering gun?

I tired a buffing wheel, a belt sander, and I tried hand filing them. I wouldn't dare touch that shit with a soldering iron...the fumes couldn't possibly be good for you.

inductorguitars · June 24, 2011, 08:28:51 PM

You probably need to make a jig to hold the pick in place while you sand the bevel. I'd try the belt sander first.

black_out · June 25, 2011, 01:07:41 PM

Quote from: inductorguitars on June 24, 2011, 08:28:51 PM
You probably need to make a jig to hold the pick in place while you sand the bevel. I'd try the belt sander first.

I think the problem with the belt sander was that it's pretty gritty shit. If I had the motivation to pull it off and throw something more on the fine side it'd probably work better.

spookstrickland · June 26, 2011, 02:54:45 PM

I really like the sound of the human nail as a pick but mine keep breaking. I have a friend that works at a funeral home and he has been getting me Toenails off the bodies before they get cremated and with a little shaping of the dremel tool they make incredible picks, they sound just like your own nail but give you the control of a pick.

dogfood · June 26, 2011, 02:59:13 PM

spook, that's the most METAL thing I've every heard from you, congradulations!

black_out · June 26, 2011, 07:50:52 PM

Quote from: spookstrickland on June 26, 2011, 02:54:45 PM
I really like the sound of the human nail as a pick but mine keep breaking. I have a friend that works at a funeral home and he has been getting me Toenails off the bodies before they get cremated and with a little shaping of the dremel tool they make incredible picks, they sound just like your own nail but give you the control of a pick.

I'm gonna just throw it out there that this is probably illegal.

the diddler · June 26, 2011, 08:07:55 PM

Quote from: black_out on June 26, 2011, 07:50:52 PM
Quote from: spookstrickland on June 26, 2011, 02:54:45 PM
I really like the sound of the human nail as a pick but mine keep breaking. I have a friend that works at a funeral home and he has been getting me Toenails off the bodies before they get cremated and with a little shaping of the dremel tool they make incredible picks, they sound just like your own nail but give you the control of a pick.

I'm gonna just throw it out there that this is probably illegal.

Might be- if it were true. Spook- thought you were still filing down the tops of salad dressing bottles for picks, no?

Metal and Beer · June 26, 2011, 09:13:58 PM

Would your Lord and Savior Jesus H. Christ approve of you playing the devil's riffs with human toenails, Spook? Way to express-pass your soul to the South of Heaven Buffet broh.

RacerX · June 27, 2011, 12:15:49 AM

\m/ SPUKE!! \m/

VOLVO))) · June 27, 2011, 01:01:14 AM

Hey, you assholes, lay off Spook. If he loves Jesus and Ham, let the motherfucker love Jesus and Ham.

I'm sure you pricks feel fine with your cigarettes and buttpussies aflame all the time!

Metal and Beer · June 27, 2011, 01:26:41 AM

Quote from: SunnO))) on June 27, 2011, 01:01:14 AM
Hey, you assholes, lay off Spook. If he loves Jesus and Ham, let the motherfucker love Jesus and Ham.

I'm sure you pricks feel fine with your cigarettes and buttpussies aflame all the time!

There's several ZZ Top song titles in there ^

giantchris · June 27, 2011, 05:42:45 AM

Quote from: spookstrickland on June 26, 2011, 02:54:45 PM
I really like the sound of the human nail as a pick but mine keep breaking. I have a friend that works at a funeral home and he has been getting me Toenails off the bodies before they get cremated and with a little shaping of the dremel tool they make incredible picks, they sound just like your own nail but give you the control of a pick.

Well...As long as you don't name the picks after the person they came from thats ok I guess. But in all honesty I can almost guarentee you thats illegal might not be worth it on the off note someone notices as religious types will flip their lid (and some non religious types). Personally I wouldn't care if someone used my toenails as a pick after I died. A LOT of early cultures made practical use of the body after death not as many that buried people but still significant numbers.

I also imagine there could be some possibility of some sort of infection related to using other people's nails as your pick. Dunno, if the person had MRSA or something might be an issue and since you don't have access to the records might not be a good idea.

LogicalFrank · June 27, 2011, 11:13:40 AM

I can vouch for Spook's method. I get mine from a different source though (not telling). People ask me the secret to my tone and I say it's in my right hand technique. Ha!

black_out · June 27, 2011, 02:17:42 PM

Quote from: SunnO))) on June 27, 2011, 01:01:14 AM
Hey, you assholes, lay off Spook. If he loves Jesus and Ham, let the motherfucker love Jesus and Ham.

I'm sure you pricks feel fine with your cigarettes and buttpussies aflame all the time!

All I'm saying is that using the Toe Nails of dead people for a pick is probably a felony. I'm not passing judgement. I mean.. it is pretty disgusting.. but whatever.

spookstrickland · June 27, 2011, 02:21:26 PM

Oh man that was just too funny

I was just pulling your leg on the toenail picks LOL

Although I get the feeling that now that the idea is out there some one is going to do it for real

justinhedrick · June 27, 2011, 04:34:12 PM

Quote from: spookstrickland on June 27, 2011, 02:21:26 PM
Oh man that was just too funny I was just pulling your leg on the toenail picks LOL

Although I get the feeling that now that the idea is out there some one is going to do it for real

i met a dude once back in college who played in a mariachi band (his dads? uncles? shit i don't remember) anyway, he played some 8 stringed mexican instrument and said the pick was a hunk of goat hoof . . . fucked up.