Tubular pick idea? Any good machinists out there?

[Nasydave]

Not so much a NEW idea, but using an existing tubular pick.

I thought of having the feelers have an arc in them so they curve away from the pick in the middle of the feeler. Same type of tension collar, but a little higher up the pick body. You would set the feelers so they were in the 8 position (not pushing in the pins at all).

then by compressing something around the arced feelers, you would simultaniously be pushing in all the pins at once. As a shear line was hit, that feeler would stick on that end, and any further squeezing on the arc would push the other end of the feeler through the collar.

Make sense to anyone?

[Shrub]

Apart from your method not being as secure or as smooth im not entirely sure of the differances to a commercial one, having the feelers away from the pick body not only means they would not fit in the lock but also that they would have no support and as such no feedback.

A sketch says a thousand words though so if im missing a point please do a drawing even if its on paper and scanned in then i/we can see a bit better what your plans are.