Homemade pick set No. 1243

by **raimundo** » 18 Feb 2005 13:29

Are you gonna mount them on your wall in a glass case? they look to good to use as tools. They're beautiful.

by **omelet** » 18 Feb 2005 15:07

seriously, it brings a tear to my eye :cry:

you've outdone yourself again, and put us all to shame with your first-rate pick making. Way to set the example

by **Romstar** » 18 Feb 2005 18:29

Bembel's been in my tickle trunk. :wink:

That looks excellent. You can rivet them, whether wood or laminate. You have to predrill the holes obviously, and be very careful when you hammer or press the rivets. The rivets make excellent back-up for the adhesive.

I guess I am going to have to get busy with a digital camera soon. That is incredible, excellent work. Keep it up.

Romstar

by **bembel** » 18 Feb 2005 22:29

Are you gonna mount them on your wall in a glass case? they look to good to use as tools

Be sure they will be used just like every other tool.

But I'll probably make only half a dozen of them (I noticed that I usually don't need much more picks than that - I got my favorites) and keep it as an extra set. Let's see if I can also do some rivets, I simply love the technical look of them.

Then I'm gonna stop making picks because I spent too much time with it the last weeks (and dropped some more important things for it). However, I've got a heap of good picks now which probably will endure the next decades (just like the others did). Especially the steel handled picks should be very easy to fix if something ever should happen to them.

P.S. I always love pictures of excellent homemade picks. Could somebody please donate a camera to Romstar?

by **Hojo** » 19 Feb 2005 2:50

*Claps*

, I am very impressed with your work, Much better than mine

I am in your debt

by **savior** » 13 Jul 2005 5:13

i know this is an old thread, so i hope you're still around... i was just wondeirng on that plug spinner, do you hold it by the spring? when i made my plug spinner, which i posted a picture of, i didn't look at any other spinners already out there, proffesional or homebrew. i just designed it myself, and it shows. yours looks much nicer, and easier to use... so i'm gonna shoot for one. thanks for the inspiration.

by **oxon16** » 20 Jul 2005 5:38

wish i could make 1 that gd:( gd work mate

by **devildog** » 11 Aug 2005 21:25

This guy needs to make some HPC Dental Style picks!! (He might actually have a chance of making some that are BETTER than the real HPCs!)

Sorry to resurrect this one again, but I think (and hope) that this one will never die, as that's the BEST (except for maybe Raimundo's stuff) example of DIY picks I've seen on here (anyone who disagrees please post pictures--I'd sure like to know if I've missed anything).

FYI--you're using superglue on metal?! eeekk! There's much better things than that, and for future reference if you have to reglue them, there's only one thing you need to remember: JB Weld !! It's an American product but I'm sure you can order it off of the internet and get it shipped there. There's lots of epoxys designed to work on metal (superglue isn't really one of them), and JB Weld is by far the best.

by **sublime progie** » 11 Aug 2005 21:38

B E A utiful to quote a forgotten movie: bruce almighty. Anyways nice picks. I think that those are the most profesional looking picks i have ever seen. I also like some of the origional designs. well done man

by **n2oah** » 11 Aug 2005 21:57

Wow, I'm really impressed by those absolutely beautiful picks! Do you know exactly what that tool is calle that measures car tires, I've thought about making a plug spinner for quite awhile, now.

by **cha0s** » 11 Aug 2005 23:12

if you were so inclined you could go to the "kitchen" store and get a big thing of those sample lamintents. As far as i know they are free and big enough to get both sides for a handle out of.

by **cha0s** » 11 Aug 2005 23:12

does the pick in your sig fold up? If so thats amazing!

by **n2oah** » 11 Aug 2005 23:17

They have larger samples of laminate at the home depot. They are 5"x3 1/2" and you could get about 2 pick handle from each sample. Just stuff your pockets full of them

by **LockNewbie21** » 7 Mar 2006 22:55

I am going out to buy a grinder and some hacksaw blades tomarrow. But Geez I dont know how anyone could top those... you should sell them, i mean crap i would but them and they look more durrable and well put together compared to SO's Nice work man (Bows down and praises)

by **bembel** » 8 Mar 2006 12:11

Thanks.

(A really old thread coming up here)
Meanwhile I got the chance to buy a plug spinner for a very good price, so I dropped the DIY ones. It just works better having a release button, I must admit.

Yes, that pick folds up. More pictures can be found here

Homemade pick set No. 1243

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