[Charmed Life Picks]

A potential customer had written us the other day asking about our "tortoise" models. He was concerned that we might be using real tortoise shell.

Just to clarify: "tortoise" refers to the design of the material, not the material itself. This term is used in other industries as well, such as sunglasses and combs. "Tortoise" material is probably the most imitated design in the world for guitar picks, since this is what the original picks were made from for thousands of years.

The selling of real tortoise shell products was banned in the early seventies by the international CITES treaty. In fact, one of the things we're most proud about is that no harm comes to any animals in any of the products we manufacture -- and yet our two lines of material are generally regarded by serious players as most closely approximating the tone and the feel of real TS.

Hope this clears up any confusion.

thanks,
scott