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Got it!
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Reeltarded wrote:Gold would only make a good pick if you were playing country rap in a Nudie suit.
SILENCE! ENOUGH OF THIS MALARKEY!

I don NOT play country rap (and I am pretty certain you're not going to want to see me in my nudie suit) :-)

Behold, here is the pick I have used for the last 18 years (except when I am on an elevated stage with gaps between the slats). I had a jeweler make this for me, in the likeness of a Dunlop Jazz II (notice Jazz, Miles) sitting next to it. I used to lose picks left and right, until I paid $140 for one....
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haha! Mine only cost a half dollar.

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One thing I noticed about silver is that the strings eat it instead of the other way 'round. Perfect! It has less of a note than the stainless did. Lil softer, obviously.. probably maybe kind of.
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Yes, same with gold. When I first got the pick, the sound was brittle and shrill. The edges were square, but I didn't realize this until later. Not sure why I stayed with it (maybe the cost) but I kept playing it. Eventually, the square edges gave way to a nice rounded contour (which can be seen in the picture), and the sound mellowed out substantially. I told a friend about this once, and he proclaimed that from now on, he was going to follow me on-stage with a whisk broom and dust pan. :-)
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Fairy dust.. I like it.
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Back in the late 60s I spent all my spring breaks from HS down in Guaymas. Wish I had a couple of bags of the old silver pesos from back then. Exchange rate: 1 peso = $.08. Oddly enough, just the price of admission to get into the gimnacio and play some hoops. Ah, good memories.
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JazzGuitarGimp wrote:Yes, same with gold. Eventually, the square edges gave way to a nice rounded contour (which can be seen in the picture), and the sound mellowed out substantially. I told a friend about this once, and he proclaimed that from now on, he was going to follow me on-stage with a whisk broom and dust pan. :-)
Now you just need a playing partner with a similar pick and you can market your act as "The Gold Dust Twins."
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Leo_Gnardo wrote:
JazzGuitarGimp wrote:Yes, same with gold. Eventually, the square edges gave way to a nice rounded contour (which can be seen in the picture), and the sound mellowed out substantially. I told a friend about this once, and he proclaimed that from now on, he was going to follow me on-stage with a whisk broom and dust pan. :-)
Now you just need a playing partner with a similar pick and you can market your act as "The Gold Dust Twins."
And if said partner were female, when she plays solo gigs, she would be known as Gold Dust Woman...
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JazzGuitarGimp wrote:
Leo_Gnardo wrote:
JazzGuitarGimp wrote:Yes, same with gold. Eventually, the square edges gave way to a nice rounded contour (which can be seen in the picture), and the sound mellowed out substantially. I told a friend about this once, and he proclaimed that from now on, he was going to follow me on-stage with a whisk broom and dust pan. :-)
Now you just need a playing partner with a similar pick and you can market your act as "The Gold Dust Twins."
And if said partner were female, when she plays solo gigs, she would be known as Gold Dust Woman...
And if she bought the New York basketball team, they'd be the Stevie Knicks.
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NickC wrote:
JazzGuitarGimp wrote:
Leo_Gnardo wrote: Now you just need a playing partner with a similar pick and you can market your act as "The Gold Dust Twins."
And if said partner were female, when she plays solo gigs, she would be known as Gold Dust Woman...
And if she bought the New York basketball team, they'd be the Stevie Knicks.
And if Stevie did that at just the right moment, she would transform into Bonnie Raitt.
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luv the gold pick - luv the silver one.

Gonna have to make me one now....
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Guess I'm gonna have to go over to moms and dig out my coins.
Anyway to tell if a coin is mostly silver.Probably gonna go ahead and hang on to the gold ones
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Junk coins are pretty cheap at the coin dood's place. I got a few reaaaally awful ones.
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No coin dude here.But I got a box full I think I have some pesos I haven't lokked in years.
I wonder if brass is to hard I'vr always got some of that from plumbing fixtures and what not.When the can gets full I take it to the recycle
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So almost two years later I looked in the safe and found a victim . i t didn't feel right to defile an american quarter. Gonna take a dremel to it and pretend I'm a jewler
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