I've never seen a rubber pick. The last three picks I've had are kind of neat, though. All heavy and mellow, as I like them. The first one was a tortoise shell one. I paid $45 for it and lost it somewhere between Juneau, San Diego, Chicago and Toronto and Juneau. Kind of glad, actually, because of the guilt I felt. Then I bought a bison horn one for $6.00. I like it fine. At Christmas, however, a musician friend gave me a mammoth tusk fossil ivory one and that's the one I'm using now. It's pretty odorous; some people have said that the smell reminds them of a cattle barn. It doesn't to me- somehow I just feel this temendous connection to the long ago past.