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make your own guitar picks from gift or credit cards!

Step 7Its done!

after 5 minutes barely doing anything
you have your new pick

now go out there and make some sound!

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8 comments

Oct 16, 2008. 1:21 PMkenzington says:

I make my own guitar picks all the time--it's good to find thin but sturdy cards or pieces of plastic (but that's just my preferance because i like thin picks best). iTunes cards work great. To JonH20--how do you make it look like an elephant??

May 17, 2009. 11:04 AMINSTRUCTUBAL (author) says:

i think jonH20 means that since he has no pick to trace, his looks so deformed that it looks like an elephant XD

Apr 26, 2009. 9:32 AMrobert the robot says:

Elephant? What?

May 17, 2009. 7:51 AMdobbylvr says:

this is awesome!!!! great work!

Jul 30, 2008. 9:32 PMfiredragonblood says:

what kind of gauge does it produce? i prefer medium (about .73 mm) would this work for me?

Sep 7, 2008. 8:06 AMINSTRUCTUBAL (author) says:

yeah then itll make like about that size

Sep 13, 2008. 8:01 AMfiredragonblood says:

thanks

Aug 2, 2008. 9:57 AMINSTRUCTUBAL (author) says:

lol... i dunno... you can find something that you like and do this. but im not that lik good with picks to understand what you just said

Sep 6, 2008. 7:49 PMsaberscar says:

she's talkin about how thick its gunna be if im not mistaken i think so

Nov 22, 2008. 1:42 PMBongmeister22 says:

yeah

Apr 7, 2008. 5:53 PMJonH2O says:

Cool idea but my problem is when I need a guitar pick and must resort to desperate measures...I have no guitar pick to trace. So, I just make it look like a elephant.

Apr 7, 2008. 9:28 PMINSTRUCTUBAL (author) says:

thats why you PRE-make them

Jan 1, 2008. 7:49 PMckloss187 says:

OMFG DUDE THAT IS INSANE!!!!!!!!!! U R AWSOME AT THIS. U GOT MYSPACE???

Jan 1, 2008. 9:36 PMINSTRUCTUBAL (author) says:

man... its not that great haha but no i dont have one