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Originally Posted by Wade Hampton
Yep. It's the same material, in a slightly different configuration, as dynamite.
As is the nitro-cellulose lacquer finish used on so many brands of guitars, including Martin and Gibson.
If you ever get lost in the woods, celluloid guitar picks make an excellent firestarter - they light right up and burn hard like a road flare. There was one discussion about this on this forum some time ago, where one of the participants mentioned how during his college years, he and his buddies shared a house and had two big ash trays on the living room coffee table: one for marijuana, the other one filled with celluloid flatpicks.
One day the inevitable happened, and someone in a "altered" state stubbed out a cigarette or joint in the flatpick ashtray, and the whole thing went off like a Roman candle...
Pretty cool story. Glad I wasn't there to see it....
whm
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Also....when you light them (don't hold them in your fingers) they flare up in a split second and they disappear. No ash...nothin'. Must be magic...that's the only logical explanation.😀