Hyper sensitive weighted pick.

[zeke79]

I get most of my feedback from the shank of the pick myself with my picking style. The idea of the moulded handle pick for me would lean more towards having that nice balance that suits my hands. The slugs contacting the shaft of the pick would just be a bonus to transmit feel into other parts of the hand.

Injection moulding for anyone on any sort of a budget is best contracted out to a firm when you are ready to make a large batch run at one time.

[zeke79]

Are you actually incorporated?

Bwahahaha, I was hoping someone would catch that one .

[Schuyler]

[BazookaMedic]

Who me and what do you mean by that?

[zeke79]

Who me and what do you mean by that?

No, I dont mean you. Schuyler caught the "copyright" notice on my picture that is barely visible on my screen. Look closely and you will see it. He was just asking if I really was incorporated.

[BazookaMedic]

Whoops. Nice autocad though.

[zeke79]

Yeah even though Acad sucks for 3d .

[BazookaMedic]

Well lets say i were to pursue this more. Obviously i would need to make my ideas and yours, but where or how can i make injection moulded handles?

[zeke79]

Depending on if you are doing 100 pieces or 10,000 pieces it may not be feasible at all. Honestly, China is your best bet for low dollar per part orders. I know some very big name company who contracts alot of work there and you would never know it.

[BazookaMedic]

Zeke check your PM's in a minute

[BazookaMedic]

Bump just to get some ideas.

[grim]

• Lock pick (I used a half diamond that I rejected)
• Soldering Iron (I used a 15 watt Radio shack model)
• Solder
• Base board to protect your bench. (I used some scrap plywood)

it would help if you made note of a few other things in your narrative...

#1
make sure the pick handle is CLEAN and ROUGH. i believe you mentioned cleaning, but i didn't notice if you mentioned roughening the surface with sandpaper. that makes QUITE a difference in the waysolder adheres to the surface of the metal (pick)

#2
flux. you didn't mention the use of flux. for this application, using an acid flux would be more ideal than using rosin flux. flux (as it's name suggests) helps the solder to flow.

#3
heat the PICK, not the solder. if you heat the pick, the thermal difference will draw the solder onto the pick. whereas if you heat the solder, the cold metal of the pick will prevent the solder from flowing easily onto the pick.

#4
a blowtorch and plumbers solder may work better for this application rather than solder that would be used for electronics.

just a few thoughts from an old geek

[BazookaMedic]

Well i had to do it with aht i had. Thanks for the ideas though.