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Post subject: Hey Billy - 358 picks, heavy, white?
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:32 pm
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This is exactly what I'm talking - IDEAS. This is one of the reasons why this forum exists. Keep the suggestions coming!

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OK, here's one for ya, Billy. Why are there no more Fender 358 heavy guage picks in white?

The white 358 heavy is a legendary Telecaster pick, favored by Roy Buchanan and Danny Gatton. I'm still working of the last of a gross bag I bought a few years back, but it's running low. I've had Roy Buchanan fans offer me stupid money for a dozen of these little pics.

I know you still make the 358 in shell, but it's really hard to see a small teardrop shell pick on the floor of a dark venue. The white can be spotted quite easily. The white ones also seem to have a little more snap than the shell ones.

Can you please make these again? Put me down for a 144# bag right off the bat. Thanks.

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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:37 pm
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Hey Tele295,

Thanks for this idea - I really appreciate your story and dig the suggestion. We'll look into this.

Told 'ya that I'd read your ideas. Now, I need more. Who's got something for me??

Thanks all,

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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:11 pm
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Like I said, I got lots of ideas.

You could even market these as special Telemaster picks!

You know, Gatton had an interesting blend of strings that are uniquely terrific for that Telemaster Gatton/Arlen Roth/Buchanan type playing - 10, 13, 15, 26, 36, 46 (nickel-plated steel). The .015 G really makes those oblique pedal steel bends. I put those gauges on my Gatton CS Tele, and the just lit it up. You could market those as "Telemaster" strings.

It could be a whole Telemaster line of products!

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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:15 pm
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and while you're at it, you could sell the Lawrence-designed pickups the CS is now putting in the Gatton Teles as aftermarket "Telemaster" pups.

Telemaster pickups
Telemaster picks
Telemaster strings

now we need a strap!



ok, I'll be quiet now. Just having a little burst of enthusiasm

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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:31 am
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Billy, I promosed I'd be quiet, but ..........................

You could rebrand the J5 Tele knobs, part number 0058386000, as Telemaster knobs.

I got a whole line going!

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something tells me that you may like danny gatton i could be wrong but i have a strong feeling aboute this :) :)

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Any update on Fender 358 picks in white? A search for these little gems led me to this thread where I see a very wise poster has already made the request to make these again. I didn't realize they had 'guitar-god' lineage... but all the other reasons for using them make perfect sense. Put me down for the 2nd 144# bag!!!!

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something tells me that you may like danny gatton i could be wrong but i have a strong feeling aboute this :) :)


Have you seen his Gatton site? 8)

http://www.dannygatton.info/ :wink:

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Though I didn't know that Gatton and Buchanan used these picks, it doesn't surprise me. They're the best. Please, please, please make more.


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Hi would like to add to the white 358 debate! i can't believe that fender discontinued the white ones when they were clearly better looking and more practical than the tortoiseshell, as someone mentioned earlier, if your using the tortoiseshell picks at a gig venue and drop one you'll never find it if its like most of the venues ive been to, but if they were white you'd have no trouble seeing them. bring back the 358 white!!!!!


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Billy, I know this isn't a pick but you can carry picks in it. Why don't you sell these.
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Post subject: Re: Hey Billy - 358 picks, heavy, white?
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:05 pm
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The white can be spotted quite easily. The white ones also seem to have a little more snap than the shell ones.

Can you please make these again?

Hello Tele295,

I know exactly what you mean.

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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:40 am
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White ones are classic. :wink:

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I agree, I use medium and heavy 358s, but the heavy white is my usual pick for the Tele or for flatpicking acoustic. It is easy to see if you drop it. I always have more in my rear pocket, but I've used the whites for thirty years and while the shells are OK, I prefer the white 358s. Please make them available again. The old gross boxes were great case boxes for allen wrenches or whatever, including the pics. I'm a professional road player and always talk up the Fender line and give away pics. the whites are classier.


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Post subject: Bring back the 358 white!
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:00 pm
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I would like to add my name to the list of those who want Fender to make the heavy white 358 picks again.
Please bring them back! I only have five more!

I started using them in 1978 when saw Allen Holdsworth using them at a clinic at Berklee where I was a student. It was an amazing year. I was friends with some amazing people including Victor Bailey. Name dropper I am!!

If anyone has those picks to sell, let me know.


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