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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I think the most important spot is between the nut behind the pick, and the strings. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I am seeing a nasty trend here and I want to look out for you guys and gals. First I agree with Miles and the loose nut behind the pick is the most important part. Take a little Rabbit trail with me if you will.
There is a theory in accident prevention that says for every 300 instances of poor attitude/operation there are about 29 cases of minor accidents and 1 case of a severe accident occuring in the work place. That is a 1 out of 10 chances of a mishap occuring when you are being complacent!
If you are one of the Boneheads laying picks all over the place please consider that for every ten times you do this an "event" may occur such as a spouse or partner being irritated to some extent.
Every ten times you are the cause of this irritation it is most likey going to result in a serious irritation. this is when things like "You have too many @#$*! guitars" or "If I see another !#@$%&* in my lint trap there will be $%&@ to pay".
Blaming your spouse for the loss of one of your favorite picks is a definite no-no as well.
I care about you all. Please practice safe musicianship. Friends don't let Friends get their stuff scattered on their lawns!
Peace |
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Location: Seattle Tacoma Washington | All over the house. Back pocket, Wallet on the left, Picks on the right (right handed). When playing out usually stuck to the top. Double sticky tape so I don't drop while playing, and to stick to the guitar for finger picking, and travel. Happy New Year!! :cool: :cool:
Glenn
30 Six
30 Viper
Custom Legend 12
1613 Classical
1881 Adamas II
6774 Folklore
Preacher w/UKII Pups
MM68 Mandolin
Anniversary
Gib J200 |
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Location: Zion, Illinois | I usually drop them inside the bowl. It has cut my pick losses in half! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | My name is Bailey, and I am a pickaholic
I confess that I assign a pick to each guitar and mandolin, and I store that pick at the third fret. Sometimes at night, when the muse has got me, I will switch from mandolin to guitar or acoustic guitar to electric guitar and as God watches me, I will stick a pick in my pocket or leave it on a table where it will surface in the AM, causing great consternation as I realize that that instrument is SETTING IN IT'S CASE WITHOUT IT'S PICK. I must then open it's case and replace the pick correcting the problem so my life can go on. The fear is showing up at a gig without the proper pick, even though I have quit playing gigs.
I also have waves of remorse because I have lost or misplaced my stone pick, ameliorated somewhat by the great Adamas picks that an OFC member sent me that stand in reserve to fill in if needed because of my carelessness.
My name is Bailey, I am a pickaholic :eek: ;) |
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Location: chicago | its the same question i have about the rubber on your tires were does it go when they wear down...now i buy tons of picks and many time searched my entire house and cant find one.are they with the missing socks?ive tried to keep them in one area but still they disapear!!! |
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Location: Asheville, North Carolina | MWoody,,,too funny!
OK how many buy a certain pick? :rolleyes:
Bailey you are sick.... :D |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Admitting you have a problem is the first step!
My favorite picks are the off-white Ovation Fan club picks - no lie!
Great calling cards as well. |
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Posts: 15676
Location: SoCal | I'm with Woodrow. I use the off white OFC pics. They are the same size and density as Fender mediums, but the special OFC print gives them a special balance and weight. I don't expect most people to be that sensitive to their picks...... |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Yes I was sick as pointed out.
Just when I thought I was cured, MWoody and Moodypi brought up the OFC picks that I didn't know about.
A new vintage, steeped in tradition, aged in oak casks, promising a descent into pick nirvana.
I will seek these out and reverently place them in my guitars and mandolins and obsess over which one goes where and which one to secretly carry in my pocket and flash at the pretty checkout clerk as I pull out my change so I can hear her gasp "OFC, omigod a guitar god like Al".
My pickaholic obsession has been rekindeled and it's back to sin and degredation, (I really, really love it) |
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Location: SoCal | Call me an enabler, but contact Miles about the pics.
By the way, I keep a pic with each guitar and all my guitars are out on stands or on the wall. Bill would be proud of me. Everything gets picked up and played every week. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Since I never play plugged in, I just remove the battery and keep my picks in the battery compartment. Dave |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | my doom is sealed
I have fallen off the wagon and ordered a dozen OFC picks (curse you moodypi).
I will now look forward to wallowing in the depths of degradation, after all, you can't be cured until you hit the bottom.
BTW, does anybody know if Dunlop has a web site where those pretties can be procured.
I now have began the 12 pick program (the OFC's come by the dozen) once you have faced your addiction and owned up to it, then you can indulge with no remorse.
I will sleep tonight with blue and cream picks floating through my dreams and choosing their guitars without my having the anguished pressure of having to choose which one goes where and possibly assigning a cream pick to a blue guitar, therefore upsetting the balance of nature as happened when I accidentally put my electric guitar pick in my new mandolin early this year causing Florida to suffer through terrible hurricanes. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The first thing to do is buy picks by the gross, 2 or 3 at a time. Then you have all those little cool stash boxes no longer used. Fill them up with picks and leave them everywhere. (That way when guests come over they can help themselves) I find that I play with my fingers most of the time now so I don't leave any in the guitars. But on a tray on the music room table, on the winder sill by the main guitar chair, also by the secondairy guitar chair, downstairs music room winder sills, all of them, in Fla over the fireplace or in several small bowls on tables or my dresser. Every two years buy another 3 gross of picks, whether you need them or not. I get these white mot Johnson picks from Don's Pawn shop here in Jax, most interesting music store in town. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | You know, I'm no friggin genious when it comes to marketing (well, actually that IS my day job) but anyway, if I were in charge of Ovations marketing to the big box stores, I'd go to every damn one of them and put a huge fish bowl of Ovation logo'd picks in their acoustic rooms. It costs next to nothing. And every person who comes in there to play the guitars (and maybe actually BUY one) is gonna use them, steal them, whatever. Even if the idiot buys a Taylor, I want him walking out of there with a few Ovation picks in his pocket. It's dozens and dozens of simple little things like this that add up over time. Artist Endorsement, Product Placement, Paid Reviews, and on, and on. |
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Location: Asheville, North Carolina | WHERE DO I GET THE FAN CLUB PICKS? :cool: |
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| please see the ofc store to your left in the green table..... |
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| "I have this nice little wooden box that I used to keep my controlled substances in. Now that I am a mature, law abiding citizen, I use the box to store my picks."
Ohh Man thats funny! My old wooden box is pretty beat up but I still have it.
It is full of picks and strap locks etc. etc.
I am spending a lot of time in front of a Mic now so I bought one of those little holders that slip to the Mic Stand.
On my Ric bass there is a small gap between the pick guard and the bass pickup. I stick a heavy pick in there for a spare.
Now that my Daughters are playing I bought a bunch, I hate it when I do not have my favorite picks.
My youngest calls them "Chips"!
Randy |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | i found some small black 2x2.5 leather snap pouches with a key ring on them designed to carry a folded up bill in so you aren't broke (monekey). i have one on each guitar strap and have one on my house key set. each carries a half dozen picks and a folded up 500 peso note. the working pick is always between the strings. but ya know those nights that a tortex orange just wont cut it-----dig out a yellow.
i have about 5 or 6 extras if anyone wants one (no picks or money included). |
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