my first picks

[Beginner]

Here they are, my very first homemade and first picks ever. Ill make more soon, like snake and better hook.

http://tinypic.com/fmf0z
http://tinypic.com/fmf4h

ps. can i make tinypic.com's images show in this forum?

[Hak]

In the second picture, what kind of handle is that? I can see that it's wrapped in tape, but what kind of handle is under the tape?

[Romstar]

The heads on these picks are really very good. Excellent work. I'll be looking forward to your other picks.

Romstar

[Beginner]

Thanks for the comments, and that handle is made of wood, there are wooden stick that is splitted in middle and the pick is inside those two parts and then it is taped tightly. It is very firm handle.

[poisoned]

nice What material did u use to make those picks?

[Beginner]

I made those from unused street bristles. And little polish with 600 paper.

[quickpicks]

That's really good crafstmanship for your first picks. It took me about 5 street sweeper bristles before I perfected my method. Im a little cautious with tempering them though.

[Beginner]

I have tempered mine. The metal comes more harder tougher and less springy.

[quickpicks]

I will have to give it a shot then. I just was not sure if it would make the metal brittle or not.

[Beginner]

Read my post in here viewtopic.php?p=44730#44730 before heat treating

[Beginner]

Well here is my snake rake http://tinypic.com/kn2wo this toke quite a long time to make. so i didn's had time to make that better hook what i said before.

[SFGOON]

Geez guy - good work! What's your day job? I've been messing around with this for years and all my efforts STILL come out looking like crapola -it's actually cheaper in terms of time for me to buy them...

[Beginner]

Geez guy - good work! What's your day job? I've been messing around with this for years and all my efforts STILL come out looking like crapola -it's actually cheaper in terms of time for me to buy them...

Thanks. Actually i have a degree on metal and machinery but i think that anyone can make these picks if you just spend more time on that, and use file to take little pieces of metal at the time.

[skold]

i recently made my most perfect pick on an angle grinder, it was exactly the same as a southord diamond but was made of HSS

[Beginner]

i recently made my most perfect pick on an angle grinder, it was exactly the same as a southord diamond but was made of HSS

You have there a pretty hard pick. HSS steel is quite hard to work on with just file's