D.I.Y. Guitar Pick

video D.I.Y. Guitar Pick

This video shows how to make a guitar pick from an old cd. Something I noticed is that you might not want to paint the tip so that the paint doesn't chip of on your strings.

Music Credits:
"Porch Blues by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0" http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

neozelandes says: Nov 9, 2010. 11:13 AM

what kind of file should i use?

redfox1160 (author) in reply to neozelandesNov 9, 2010. 3:37 PM

I used a nail file, but you could probably use a very fine file or fine sandpaper.

doubleshockz says: Nov 3, 2010. 1:23 PM

last night i really needed a guitar pick so it drew a pick shape on a piece of paper and put a bunch of papers behind it. then cut that so there was 6 or so paper picks and glued them together with gorrila glue and glue sticks..... today in my tech ed class i took a peice of sand paper and smoothed it out and drew a design on the paper and man does it look cool. just as thick as a reg pick

mawktheone says: Jan 23, 2009. 8:55 PM

good ible, i made a bunch of these back in the day, cdr's make ok picks but a bit soft, dvds are much the same. I found that PS1 games made good hard picks. also i used a dremmel instead of a nailfile, made it pretty fast. especially since the ps1 discs were harder and would shatter sometimes when cutting. a small rotary file helped make the designs too, cutting patterns the whole way through made for some interesting grips.

drummin4jesus777 says: Dec 14, 2008. 8:07 PM

what does D.I.Y stand for?

redfox1160 (author) in reply to drummin4jesus777Dec 15, 2008. 1:05 PM

Do It Yourself

pyelitegamerro76 says: Nov 18, 2008. 10:55 AM

oh man the video made me laugh so hard, "CUT! CUT! CUT!, PAINT! PAINT! PAINT!, NAIL POLISH(not mine)" it was great lol

cantth1nk0fnam3 in reply to pyelitegamerro76Dec 13, 2008. 6:35 PM

ROFLMAOOL OMGGGGGGGGG HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I saw that and i just burst out laughing hahahaha

redfox1160 (author) in reply to pyelitegamerro76Nov 18, 2008. 1:46 PM

thanks

PuddleOfMudd25 says: Oct 24, 2008. 3:41 PM

Cool idea, but IMO I would rather spend the $5 and get myself a pack of commercial picks. Nothing against the Instructable, of course.

redfox1160 (author) says: Sep 26, 2008. 9:11 PM

I don't use them either, i would rather use real picks.

tubajoey1 says: Sep 26, 2008. 8:53 PM

i used to do this, but i have found that they are too weak for medium to heavy use. i now just cut out my own from old gift cards and other such plastics...this way, you can sand it down to the desired thickness and strength without having it break so easy. nice ible though