Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?

Subject: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:33 PM

Anyone tried 'em?

Info Here

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Mooh
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:50 PM

Clinton...Yup. A friendly retailer gave me a bunch because they didn't sell. Very soft tone, floppy feel even with the thick ones, and they grab the strings too much for my liking. I've passed them around to students and nobody has liked them, so they sit in my pick box waiting for an opportunity. A long long way from my usual Ultex or Wegans. My guess is they'll be one of those rare particular sounding picks that get used once or twice per owner. My original feeling was they'd work on ukulele, but I didn't even like them for that.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 01:57 PM

I'll trade you some "Wirethings" for a few ??? LOL

http://www.wirething.com/

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 09:41 PM

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Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: number 6
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 12:04 AM

Those look deadly Clinton ... real string snappers.

sIx

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 12:35 AM

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.

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Kaleea
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 01:32 AM

A pal o' mine got some sorta oversized pick shaped rubber erasers to use for letting kids strum autoharps. It was quite a mess. Eraser noodle all over and inside the autoharps. Scraping the erasers across all those 36 strings wore the eraser down but, they were sure easy for the kids to hold on to.

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Mooh
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 01:20 PM

Um, no thanks Clinton, but thanks for asking. (Chuckle) Mooh.

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: open mike
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 01:34 PM

When i pick a pick i go for "tread" (mud and snows, not studded, though)
as much as the weight. flexibility, etc. Get a grip! I esp. like Dunlops
with the rough bumps to grasp on to...i think that is a brand of a tire, too.

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 01:39 PM

Hadda ask Mooh... I can't find 'em locally, but I'd love to try 'em

Ta anyway eh

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: GUEST,Mr Happy
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 04:06 PM

Clinton,

thanks for the link.

UK'ers can get 'em here:



http://www.stringbusters.com/frameset.asp?MAIN=http://www.stringbusters.com/ko-kat/PICKS/WIRETHING/

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: GUEST,Mr Happy
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 04:08 PM

forgot to say, above link is for wirething.

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Once Famous
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 05:18 PM

Are they reservoir tipped?

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 05:27 PM

Oh Baw-haw-haw-haw! A -CONDOM- joke, cause the post title has the word 'rubber' in it... my oh my, how original, insightful and hilarious...

With comedy like that MG, you should stick to music...

Or maybe your 'music' IS the reason you have to resort to failed comedic attempts....

Keep swinging for the fences, reaching for those stars... anything to distract you from the sewer pipe that you post from

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 08:13 PM

Huhuhuhuhuhuh

You said "rubber".

And "wedgie".

huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh...

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 08:16 PM

Zactly... See... from a 'Sooite', I expect that level of behaviour!

LOL

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: GUEST,auggie
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 11:14 PM

I was in the music store today, and after seeing this thread, I just had to invest the 34 cents it cost to take one home and try it.

My opinion: They are Just Plain Horrible. I have no idea whatsoever how anyone could appreciate using these, unless perhaps, you wanted to make brand new high quality strings sound like they are old, cheap and dirty.

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jan 06 - 11:16 PM

now there's a straight line for somebody, if ever I saw one.

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 10:08 AM

So I might like them after all, cause I HATE the sound of brand new strings.

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Mooh
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 10:31 AM

Clinton...They don't sound too bad on the autoharp, though I'd prefer to have my fingers free, so maybe crazy glueing one to a thumb pick would work. They also get a real finger-like sound on electric bass, though I don't know what would be wrong with actually using one's fingers. Anyway, sorry for the aside.

If you really want 'em, try Jensen Music in Owen Sound, that's who gave them to me.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Once Famous
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 10:52 AM

OK, Clinton seeing that you have zero sense of humor. Playing with a rubber pick sounds horrendous. I have tried it and I know of zero excellent musicians who use one. Obviously you use one because you are embarrassed by your plauing and really don't want to be heard because of all the bad notes you hit.

And I don't particularly like the sound of brand new strings either until they have been played a while. But unlike yourself, I will spend the money to replace them instead of using that as an excuse not to.

Subject: RE: Tech: Wedgie Rubber Guitar Picks?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Jan 06 - 10:54 AM

"try Jensen Music in Owen Sound"

Hell of a drive for a pick I might not like... Heh

Once Again MG, you show just how out to sea you really are...   Blow it out your back-passage, provided you can get your head out first....