push protection for picks

[ridderhenck]

When I,m busy with picking after a while my finger looks like it has been cut in two,yeah too much pressure...anyway,I thought of a sort of help in sawing a piece of cork of,put some tape around it,drill a hole in the middle,place the pick through the hole,no kidding,and it works fine for me,you can place your thumb and middlefinger on it and still feel the pick with your indexfinger.

Now I hear some of you think,yeah right,but doesn,t the pick fall out of the piece of cork?Because I forgot to mention that the hole is a little bigger than the pick,and yes it would fall out,but......I took a piece of pvctube ,the diameter big enough to hold a firm grip,made a cut of a few inches and placed the pick inside the tube,now it can go up and down but will not fall,and besides that you have a nice grip.

See what it can do for you

[UWSDWF]

just use plasti-dip or shrink tube... alot easier and prettier

[ridderhenck]

Thanks for the advice,I,m not sure where to find this in The Netherlands though

[UWSDWF]

plasti dip you should be able to find in a Big-box hardware store... as well as the heat shrink tube, but it can be found in hobby stores and eletronic shops

[raimundo]

those commercial picks without any handles, can be comfortably handled if you strip the white outer tube off a bic biro, and pad the jaws of a vise with some cloth or leather, then crush the white plastic tube til its like () and slip the pick in, the tube will reexpand and fit the pick tight while making a nice handle without the sharp edges to increase the psi on the skin where you hold it.

[NKT]

For what it's worth, finding Plati-dip in the UK was hard! I found exactly one bottle, of the clear version, at a specialist yatching shop. I would rather have had one of the colours, but after a year of looking, I'd not seen it elsewhere.

Climbing specialist stores might have it, but there aren't any near me.

As for whether it was worth it? I've no idea, I've not opened it yet!

[UWSDWF]

hey europe may be back assward enough not to have plasti-dip but i know for a fact you must have heat shrink tube

[cjames73]

plasti-dip is available in uk,

http://www.plastidip.co.uk/index2.cfm
http://www.caswelleurope.co.uk/plastidip.htm
http://www.frost.co.uk/productList.asp? ... %20Coating

[NKT]

ALL PLASTI DIP PRODUCTS ARE HAZMAT AND CARRY A £3.00 IMPORT SURCHARGE PER CAN

Yes, it's available, it must be, since I bought a can. I paid £6 for my can, and supported a local trader. However, unless buying it online, don't hold your breath for finding it.

[raimundo]

Hey, all you fancy handle people, try Fimo, a heat hardening plastic you can find in art supply stores, roll out two colors of it, layer them then flatten it, fold it and layer again, til you have interesting material to make your pick handle, put it on the pick and cook it at 230 fahrenheit for 20 minutes, the plastic hardens, and you can then file and sand it to a nice finish. Have I done this, No, I havent, its just an Idea I thought Id share.

[UWSDWF]

interesting... i have a pack of fimo at home.... why? i have no clue

[Shrub]

What colour plastidip do you want NKT and what size tin?

[Gordon Airporte]

"Sculpy" is another clay like Fimo, so that might be what you find at the craft store. You could really make some crazy designs on your handles with this stuff, and you can experiment with ergonomic designs too...
The metal won't be particularly affected at that baking temperature, right?

[Shrub]

Do you all get Polymorph over there?

Its a by product of a plastic moulding and after its cut up into granules it has a some good features,

You can buy it off ebay or at model shops in the uk, it comes as a plastic granule in white that can be coloured anything you want,

Put the granules in hot water and they go clear after a few seconds or so depening on quantaty being used,

Once they go clear they all start to matt together, remove them from the water and muld to the shape you want, once cool (30 seconds or so) it forms a hard nylon type plastic that can be machined or stong enough to be used as a nut,

If you made a mould say by putting a commercial pick in some plaster of paris, you could then simply put some polymorph in the mould, insert your pick and then more polymorph on top and let it set,

Hey presto plastic handles,

If you want to do them free hand you simply put it around the pick and then hold on to it like you would when picking, when set this will give you a pick handle that will fit your hand even down to your finger prints on the surface

[ridderhenck]

Wow,thanks for all the info,but...I also found super material in a clothesstore,yessssssssss!!!!!!The coathangers there where covered with a sort of foam material,I bought one,cheap stuff,
At home I took it off the coathanger and now I have 10 picks covered with it and it works like a charm,in about two weeks I have a digital camera at laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast so pictures tell more than a thousand words