Has anyone seen or tried these? clever idea, not sure how well they'd work though.

http://jackson.craigslist.org/msg/1605356053.html

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I came up with an idea like that long ago,I sell bags of 2 doz.recycled air guitar picks for $5.00.

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They do have these stamps or punches you can get to make your own picks out of whatever you want. Recycling is cool, though I am wondering how the metal traces in the circuit boards would affect picking and string life.

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What does the brown double as a carpet knife or arrow head.

they look cool...........I like my V-Picks though

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You can cut a serviceable pick out of a credit card.

My thoughts exactly.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

You'd have to keep on eye on them as they wear down ...

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My other guitar is a Strat.

Have to try that. Sounds better than some things I've used when couldn't find a pick - Pepsi tab, poker chip, paper clip. Kids seem to "borrow" them & they disappear.

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Id imagine they would file down the metal bits or laminate over them or something like that.

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I made some with the Master Card dove hologram that looked pretty cool too.

Looking at the pics they seem to have some kind of coating on them, which would make them part-recycled and part-manufactured. I'm guessing the metal traces wouldn't affect strings much because they're usually such a thin strip they're almost like a metal paint. They'd would be softer than the material any plastic or poly pick is made from surely?

For a while as a teenager I used coins for picks, until a more experienced player told me it wasn't normal to break so many strings so often, and I noticed the fairly brutal wear starting to appear accross my pickups and the face of my guitar

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I don't think it is an issue. Computer circuit boards don't have harder metals that guitar strings, I don't believe. Remember that some people use guitar picks made of coins (like silver) and it works fine. Look for the picks on ebay for some backgound.

Those are what I used as a kid with my toy guitars

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