Blue Chip pick update

[Tonar8352]

I know we have discussed the picks previously here http://unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=23977.0
but I want to update you all on how they have preformed for me. Here is a picture of the pick that I have use for well over a year side by side with a brand new out of the package pick. You can see that the used pick wore very well considering that I would have the same amount of ware with a Pick Boy pick in the course of one night. Bottom line; the Blue Chip is worth every penny.

 

[DangerousR6]

Cool, I too have fiddled with different picks, materials and such. Two in particular that are my favorites are a ziricote wood and Titanium...It's awesome when you can find something you like... :icon_thumright:

 

[mrpinter]

I also appreciate a premium pick, and have come to the point of using only Gravity Gold Series picks on all my guitars. I have a Blue Chip (an STP60) and it's a darn good pick. But compared to my Gravity picks it sounds kind of dull to me. Maybe it's just a little darker, but that's how I perceive it. The Gravity's just have a livelier sound, while still being very warm toned. And after over a year of using a few of them I can see no wear. None. You would think there would be SOME wear, because - for example - I actually reshaped the points on a couple of the Gold Series picks for an ultra picky friend of mine who wanted the point of his Razer style G.S. pick to be *a little bit* pointier. It wasn't that hard to do this using a couple of emory boards. Like the Blue Chips, the Gold Series material seems to have a natural lubricity that lets the pick glide smoothly off the string - thus (I'm guessing) not getting chewed up like other more brittle materials. Here is what the ones I use look like:

I use this model on three of my electric guitars:

This is what I use on a Tele that is equipped with flatwound strings:

And I use this for my acoustic:

Just another option I think discriminating players ought to know about. At $20 each they're still a bit pricey for a pick, but they are considerably less expensive than Blue Chips.

 

[jackthehack]

I normally use the Heavy flavor of this pick:

..but if you want to really get that humbucker twang, go with Billy Gibbons trick and use a quarter, only drawback is that if you use lighter gauge strings you'll break 1st strings more often...

 

[Gemcutter]

Dava Master Control Nickle Silver picks. www.davapick.com This is a metal tipped, specially designed pick. Worth a try for that metallic sound.

 

[Logrinn]

I normally use the Heavy flavor of this pick:

..but if you want to really get that humbucker twang, go with Billy Gibbons trick and use a quarter, only drawback is that if you use lighter gauge strings you'll break 1st strings more often...

And yet Billy Gibbons uses .007s!

 

[Cagey]

And yet Billy Gibbons uses .007s!

Hehe! Yeah. Spiderwebs, right? And people think you need to load up some 13s, a la SRV, to get a decent tone.

Of course, he has a crew and a dedicated tech to deal with his gear, so if he chews up a set of strings per tune, what's the harm? Probably buys them by the case, if he buys them at all.

 

[Logrinn]

So true Cagey, so true.

 

[mayfly]

My Uncle (B. May) uses a sixpence and pretty light strings as well.  You have to be pretty relaxed to pull that off, but you can get some great tone.

 

[Logrinn]

Your uncle? Wow!
Yes, he does get some great tones.

 

[Cagey]

He may be talking about his uncle Buford May  :icon_biggrin:

 

[mayfly]

Mayfly ==  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[Logrinn]

Buford? Of course. How silly of me ...

 

[bagman67]

"Buford May" sounds like the name of a sheriff in an old Western movie.  Time to write the screenplay around him...

 

[Cagey]

Add some monsters, spaceships and nekkid wimmin, and I'll watch it.

 

[Logrinn]

They already made a movie out of that story ...

https://youtu.be/UdmupNxobP0

(and how do I embed a Youtube clip here ..?)

 

[mayfly]

(and how do I embed a Youtube clip here ..?)

here you go.  I didn't see to many neked womenz in there

[youtube]UdmupNxobP0[/youtube]

 

[Logrinn]

That's what I wanted to do, but can't figure out how ...

Tried the Youtube symbol in the wysiwyg editor and pasted the link in between, but I guess that's not the way to do it. Any tips would be appreciated.

Cheers.

 

[bagman67]

From your link, only put the video number between the youtube tags:


So from this:
https://youtu.be/UdmupNxobP0


Delete everything but this:
UdmupNxobP0


And then place it between the tags:

[youtube]UdmupNxobP0[/youtube]

Resulting in this:


[youtube]UdmupNxobP0[/youtube]

 

[Logrinn]

Brilliant! Thank you very much for this.