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Originally Posted by Buc-a-Roo
Well as you might suspect, I'm a pick geek from way back and yours have caught my attention. I find myself switching between a Blue Chip TP50 and a Red Bear Style E Hvy. The RB is very, very mellow and warm, the round edge attenuating the high freqs pretty well. The BC TP has a bit more point to it and has a nice high end for banging out loud chording. But that said, I'm always up for a new mousetrap.......
Since I have no micrometer to check the thickness of the RB, can you tell me which of your nt series is in the neighborhood of a Style E heavy? And.....I prefer my picks without grip holes.........is this possible?
Thanks.....please advise.........
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Buc, hi. I’ll try to keep this short, but that’s impossible. I’m very enthusiastic about this stuff.
Let me say first, I believe in promoting the whole upscale pick category, not just Charmed Life. We are huge fans of both BC and RB, and wouldn’t even be doing what we’re doing if it wasn’t for those two companies. To our knowledge, we’re the only company in the industry using both of these revered materials. We were caught totally flatfooted and blew through almost everything we had within ten days of our website going live. But we owe mad props to those companies, and we want people to continue to do business with them. They will always offer things we don’t, and that’s reason enough. Plus their products are awesome and gorgeous. People think we’re crazy for promoting someone else’s business, but we’re serious about that.
Okay, to your question. Your analysis is exactly correct on the difference between the two materials: the tortoise is softer, rounder, warmer and more balanced; the brown is bright, assertive, fast and slick. Both awesome materials in their own right. (We are currently prototyping a third gorgeous material that may very well drop into our lineup by early 2017. No one in the industry is using this material.)
Here’s the short version. We have zero manufacturing background and are total goofball novices. We’re players, not machinists. We made these things as a total fluke -- first for ourselves to play, then for a few friends, then for our friends friends, then -- and suddenly we’re in the frickin’ guitar pick business. I swear to you, this is how the whole thing started.
But, you know, Buc, our ignorance has turned out to be our greatest asset. And one thing we discovered: Most of these machinists don’t know what the hell they’re doing; they are so stuck in old thinking. All they see are excuses, reasons something won’t work (
even though they’ve never tried it before!), reasons it CAN’T work, every possible reason to say NO. Bunk
When someone says “No” to me I see red. I’m a possibility thinker, and if someone says “No", I say, “Oh yeah?” and find a way to get it done. Just to shut them up, if nothing else. And that’s what we’ve done. Cheaper. Better. Faster. And this exactly why people are going nuts over our products, Buc – because we didn’t know any better, we didn’t know it couldn’t be done, we just went ahead did it. The Truth.
And I’m not talking about small things here, but at least half a dozen major fabrication breakthroughs that NOBODY in the pick business is using. Nobody. And this is why our picks are outperforming everything in the industry. And do you realize we haven’t had a single negative review or a broken pick or warranty claim in over six months of business? Not one.
And all this because we were stupid, dumb, lame beginners who didn’t know what we were doing -- we were too stupid to know it couldn’t be done; we just made it up as we went along; we invented processes on the spot, on the fly, that as far as we know have never been used in over a hundred years of pick making.
But let me say one more thing, which is actually my most important point of all this, to anyone who's had the courage to read this far......
Don’t let
ANYONE EVER tell you “No” to a dream or a vision you have. Instead, find out what part of their ego or professional pride or negativity or envy is holding them back, cross them off your list, and keep going till someone says yes. We did, and it has made all the difference.
OKAY, THIS IS THE END OF PART ONE. CONTINUED BELOW, IF YOU DARE......