Re: Pick Edges
Originally Posted by
Uncle Brad
I realize some folks may think this is another one of Crazy Brad's ideas and you may be right, but I like it!! Just food for thought.
I have used a similar nail buffer on my fingernail tips for years (I'm primarily a fingerstyle guitar player). They give the nails a nice smooth edge that gives an attack on the strings without catching or scraping. A while back, I re-shaped and re-beveled a corner on a mandolin pick with a fine file and sandpaper, but the edge was still kind of rough. I figured that the nail buffer worked on my fingernails, why not on a pick? It worked well, and since then, I have used them on picks after they wear a bit, or after changing the corners. The buffers are pretty cheap, and work well.
I suppose if you want to be fanatical about it, you could use micromesh in decreasing grits to polish the edges like glass, but I never really saw a reason to go that far.
YMMV, of course.
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