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Here’s what I use to bevel and buff my picks. They work great.
http://www.stewmac.com/Materials_and...ouch_Pads.html |
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One issue with Micro Mesh is that they use a different grit rating system, based in Europe, I believe, and this can really mess you up when trying to approximate other abrasives you may use. sm |
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Here are pics of my results. I polished the bevel until slightly shiny.
Action is smoother and faster. Tone warmed slightly as I heard it. Tone-wise, I prefer without the bevel. Playability-wise, I prefer the bevel. I'm going to play around with bevel finish, I have a hunch that the matte/texture is what caused the tonal difference. |
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I also beveled a Dunlop primetone 3mm. Night and day difference. Faster, smoother, brighter and louder. I was really pleased with the result.
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Great job on the beveling, Saul!
Folks, this is easy to do AS LONG AS YOU TAKE IT SLOW. You don't have to be a wizard or an artisan. Patience is the key, but the results can really enhance your playing. scott memmer |
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Here's the point about pick selection
It's not all about getting a BETTER tone from your guitar, because that's subjective. Various "boo-teek" picks can give you a DIFFERENT tone from your guitar. I've found, through limited research, that a different pick alters the tone as much or more than any string change, while being much quicker and, at the boutiques I favor, less expensive.
Want to brighten & crispen up my sound? I reach for my V-Pick, or my cocoanut shell triangle. Or deaden the strings for a mellower sound. My dunlop Primetone will do that. I have a solid wood pick that, surprisingly, doesn't always make the sound seem woodier, but it's different. Each of my guitars tends to select its own favorite pick, and that's another factor in finding my own sound. The fellows I jam with pride themselves on buying thin Fender picks by the gross. Humblebragging? They think my $5 picks are overpriced; I suspect the same about their Stratocasters. They find other ways to tailor their own tones, but they're choosing to ignore pick variety. Or maybe a different Strat will hold that magic tone? That's an expensive path, compared to a premium pick.
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I have experimented with a lot of pick materials, and thicknesses.
I have beveled some picks as well. I'm glad I have variety as my ears hear differently every day. Some days I want bright and others not so much. Seems like the pick has more to do with what a guitar sounds like than a string sometimes. YMMV.
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Some good bevelling on show here!
For those interested, I use a securely mounted Kress 1050 router spinning a small grinding wheel to rough-cut my bevels - I use quite a low spindle speed to minimise heat build-up so the extra torque of the 1kW router really helps to get an even cut in one or two passes (dependent on the thickness of the pick). Warning - as has been mentioned elsewhere re: the Dremel, exercise caution - this needs a lot of practice - it's easy to completely ruin a pick in a fraction of a second! I then use one of my own Wolfram Precision : Crystal Pro glass files to fine-shape the bevel. The rigid, pressure-sensitive surface gives much more control of the flat bevel contour than sandpaper - I do a lot of detail work to the picking tip as well as shaping it. I then use four grits of sandpaper to achieve a smoother transition from the face of the pick into the bevel - it's easier to achieve this with the 'fuzziness' of sandpaper than with the precision of the file. I then buff through three polishing compounds and wheels mounted on a modified bench grinder. It's a lot of work, but I find each step is necessary to achieve what I'm chasing as the perfect pick. Cheers, David
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I got the extra heavy Tru Shell pick a few days ago. It's 1.5 mm thick and it didn't do much for me. I bevelled it today and it's just ok. Dunlop Primetone 2.0 and 1.0 give me a much fuller tone on my Martin mutenye Road Series.
I'll stick with Primetones. |
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I know, old thread,
just broke my tru shell medium large triangle while playing this am.... I wasn't even doing a Pete Townsend windmill either well it is back to my dunlop tortex , or something that won't curl or break |