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How many picks does one man need?
For a lark, I just went into my various pick jars and counted up my pick collection. I'm at 118, and I'm sure I've got more stashed around somewhere. This plethora of plectra seems a little excessive, especially since I've only got about four or five go to picks. It is, however, a mite cheaper than collecting guitars.
While 118 picks and counting seems like a lot to me, I'm sure my collection is meager compared to many others on this forum. So how many do you have? The winner (for lack of a better descriptor) gets the honorary title "High Potentate of Perpetual Plectra". |
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Enough so that if I lose one every day I still have more to get me by until my wife collects them back up and puts them on the table.
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Do you mean how many are in my wallet, or in my guitar cases, or under the couch, or...
So confused. You keep yours in a *jar*? How strange...
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"The one they picks, the one you'll know by." ~ Graham Gnash
There you go!
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That reminds me - I haven't checked my guitar cases. I'm sure that's good for another 20 or so...
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I've used the same flat pick since before last Christmas, and the same thumb pick since last summer (both are Blue Chips). However, I do have hundreds of others of various brands and styles, shapes and thicknesses, colours and materials. I give a lot away, and lots get left here. I also buy picks for my students that have my business logo and contact.
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I need enough picks to keep some in various guitar cases, loan to friends, keep in the coin pocket of my jeans, lose between the couch cushions, store a few in the washing machine - and still have at least one left over to actually play guitar! I have no idea what that totals up to, but I tend to buy them in 10 packs mostly.
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1 Blue Chip, 3 Wegen, and at least a couple of hundred of the lesser members of this great calling.
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Where do you find the time to count 118 picks?? I recently ordered 6 more Gravity Picks in my favorite size and thickness. That, combined with what I have, allows me to have a couple picks in each case, a few in my gear bag, and one on the strings of each guitar. I don't break these, or rarely drop a pick these days.
Back when I was playing in bands, I would go through several Wabash Blue Mediums a night. I bought 'em by the box. I was given a real tortoise shell pick about 20 years ago, and that stayed with my one acoustic guitar (at the time). When I broke that pick a couple years ago, I started on a quest to find "the next best thing." I tried all kinds of picks, made some, then found thicker Gravity Picks. Honestly, I had no idea the difference in sound that the pick contributed. Captain Jim |
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I've got a lot of picks, but just two types of picks. One is a V-Pick ultra lite small and the others are Fender medium celluloid jazz picks. I like the V-Pick for electric, and I have the Fender picks for when I need more unplugged volume when strumming.
I ordered a large package of those because I invariably lose them, which is why I have so many. But more have been lost to me lighting them when I found out how flammable celluloid is (), than actually lost. |
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"Plethora of plectra..." I like that.
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How many do you need?
Same as guitars. Just one more!
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I given away all my inexpensive picks, which was a very large jar over 50 years of playing.
I have two tortoise shells and 5 Blue Chips, all I play, all I need and absolutely make a difference.........
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Heck, this is just a bunch of the ones I DON'T use anymore...
This is pretty much all that gets used now: |
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kydave,
Can't tell what caliber the snap-caps are but it looks like they're for a 5-shot revolver…or did you just loose one? (smile) Dave |