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Duplicate post, sorry.
Last edited by Charmed Life Picks; 01-29-2018 at 08:15 PM. |
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I'm sure Tony Rice has played genuine TS picks for more than 40 years because of some marketing mystique (which, by the way, goes back several thousand years). And Chris Thile plays Blue Chips because of a scam. And Ricky Skaggs. And Adam Steffey. And Mike Marshall, Kenny Smith, Bryan Sutton. What a bunch of clueless hicks.
By this logic a Yamaha FG-830 is as good as a D-18. Hey, they're both guitars. They're both made of wood. I sold my Collings and picked up a Rogue dreadnought for $99 at GC. That guitar can really sing. |
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I measure my extra heavy tru shell at 1.55mm.
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Naw. This guy comes in here all the time and tries to tell people all about 50 cent picks. Fine. Have at it. Buy a $5000 Collins dreadnought and play it with a Fender medium. It's a free country.
I didn't get into the pick business as a businessman. I've owned (still own) genuine tortoise and had been looking for a suitable replacement for decades. When I played the casein ("tortoise") material, I knew I'd found it. I bought $100 worth or this stuff and made a few for myself. Then friends started asking me to make one for them, and then their friends, and suddenly I'm in the frickin' guitar pick business. This is the LAST thing I ever wanted to with my life. The products flat out work. The materials perform. This is why almost every Bluegrass National Champion in the last then years has played Blue Chip. The brown DuPont Vespel that Blue Chip uses is one of the most amazing plastics ever invented. It is extruded under incredible heat and pressure. It has a melting point of 1000+ degrees Farenheit (actually, it just gets soft; it doesn't melt). It is used to replace metal industrial bearings. Try that will celluloid. Any injection-molded pick, no matter the material, cannot touch the mechanical properties of a thermoset engineering plastic. It's not even worth discussing. If someone doesn't want to play these kinds of picks, fine. But this is not mass psychosis. The stuff works. You don't build a solid company like Blue Chip for over ten years on smoke and mirrors. At those prices, if the stuff didn't perform, they'd be out of business. Okay, I've griped enough. This has nothing to do with business or money. This is about me being thrilled as a player to have finally found a material to replace my TS picks. Sorry, I get a little excited. sm Last edited by Charmed Life Picks; 01-30-2018 at 02:05 AM. |
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Stating the obvious when it conflicts with their practices is not appreciated. I however appreciate your comments, it was overdue.
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Thanks Saul,
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I'll keep this short (for once).
I apologize to everyone for my snark. I'm passionate about everything, from guitar picks to mountain biking. We can all get too full of ourselves, and I am perhaps more guilty of this than most. Have a great day, scott memmer |
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OK, I just ordered an extra heavy Tru-Shell. I'll bevel it using two flat files and my sharpening stone. I used these on my Primetones and they came out nice and smooth in just minutes. When I rebeveled the Primetone 2.0, it became the easiest playing, and best sounding, pick I have.
In my short time here as a pick head, I've gone from thinking that the red picks at GC were the cat's patootie to using Primetones at around 3 for $5, now to Tru-shell at $7. We'll see what's next but even I can hear the difference with a good pick. Last edited by lowrider; 01-30-2018 at 05:32 PM. |
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I'll go look for one. Do you think it's finer than a sharpening stone?
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At lest 2 sides are. They buff and final polish with zero abrasion.
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Heading to the store tomorrow.
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