Make Your Own Guitar Picks From Gift or Credit Cards!

by INSTRUCTUBAL

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Intro: Make Your Own Guitar Picks From Gift or Credit Cards!

in this instructable ill teach you how to make your own guitar picks from gift or credit cards
now you wont have to drive over to your music shop just to get frigging picks!
cheap, easy, and fast
i did not invent this, i used this as my idea, but i just tuned it a little

STEP 1: What Youll Need

gift card or credit card (i prefer gift cards)
nail file
scissors
marker
a guitar pick

thankfully my handy dandy pocketknife thing came with both scissors and a nail file!

STEP 2: Tracing the Pick

pretty much self explanatory
just put the pick on the gift card
and trace around it
is that so hard to follow?

sorry, i already made a bunch of picks with this one :)

STEP 3: Cut the Pick Out

just... cut the pick out

don worry about the rough edges
you'll trim them soon

sorry about the blurriness

STEP 4: Trim It

trim the rough edges to make it pretty smooth

hey! its instructables back there!

STEP 5: Bring Out the Nail File!

start smoothing out the edges on the pick

STEP 6: Filing It Down

now just make it about the right size

hold the ghetto pick and the real pick together and file

STEP 7: Its Done!

after 5 minutes barely doing anything
you have your new pick

now go out there and make some sound!

65 Comments

fredkellypicks 10 years ago

Very easy method as you said.But i think there are some cutters available to,with that you can get any shape of your guitar pick.

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MistressX956 14 years ago

Haha I like your comment about the Id's and what not cleanmonk. ^_^ Good Idea!

sheltiesruleusa 14 years ago

hey im new at guitar and when i bought my guitar the guy told me i dont need a guitar pick but i want to have one to try out. problem is that the store is like half an hour away so its not worth driving all the way out there just for guitar picks. i wanted to make one on my own but i dont have A guitar pick to trace! does anyone know the sizing for a guitar pick? and does size matter otherwise id just take a credit card and cut it so its roughly the same shape as a guitar pick... thanks! sorry for sounding so ignorant but im NEW at guitar. thanks!

INSTRUCTUBAL 14 years ago

its okay, you could just look on google for an image of a guitar pick thats roughly the same size as a real one and just use that, and it mostly matters on what your preference is for using a pick, or what type of music you play or you could use picture 1, that looks like a good size for a pick

nycnyusa 14 years ago

library cards work great 2

watermelonhead 14 years ago

Thanks for this instructable! (or should i say.. INSTRUCTUBAL) we get these stupid blockbuster cards all the time, and my brother also loses his picks all the time.

INSTRUCTUBAL 14 years ago

no problem, and yeah i hate fake cards that come through the mail

bassmonkey 14 years ago

i dicovered this on accident, but it;s soooooo cool... make one of these picks,then put it under a hairdrier on th hottest setting for about a minute, or 30 seconds,then hold it like you woul a pick, and bam! custom pick!!!!!!

kenzington 15 years ago

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??

INSTRUCTUBAL 15 years ago

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

robert the robot 15 years ago

Elephant? What?

dobbylvr 15 years ago

this is awesome!!!! great work!

Doveman 16 years ago

Your 'handy dandy pocketknife things' name is a mutitool if you didn't know. :)

Quiksilver2693 16 years ago

Or a Leatherman.

Mr. Brownie 15 years ago

Or Steve" Handy Dandy Pocket Knife form Blues Clues