My First Two Homemade Sets

[Adalan]

I decided to make a couple sets of picks. The first set is made of hacksaw blades and i've covered the handles with shrink tubing. The second set, I was aiming for a more compact set and used windshield wiper blades. These were all made with only a dremel.

[Dobbo049]

wow they look pretty good well done

iv got a dremel, i mite have to give it a go

[Kayvon]

Nicely done!

As fate would have it, I picked up a couple of hacksaw blades from the hardware store today.

Any chance you can post some dremel videos? Or at least a simple walkthrough for us dremel-impaired folks? I recently bought one and I'm itching to use it, but I'd like to bank off your experience rather than figure it all out from scratch.

[Adalan]

Any chance you can post some dremel videos? Or at least a simple walkthrough for us dremel-impaired folks? I recently bought one and I'm itching to use it, but I'd like to bank off your experience rather than figure it all out from scratch.

Yah, I think I can do that. I'll have to get something together.

[cav_king]

Hey, pretty good going there mate, the snake looks like an interesting shpae, have you tried them yet? Any good?

[hurri]

nice one. congrats.

[Havoc]

For those looking for a video on making picks from hacksaw blades using a grinder and/or a dremel, there's an EXCELLENT video around here somewhere... or you could look it up on google. It was done by a guy named Pyro1234567 or something like that.

After watching it, I felt inspired and ran out to make a four piece set on my grinder, worked out pretty good, if I do say so myself! Matched my professional kit (I checked once I found it after some digging around) almost perfectly, aside from mine being much thinner and having some flex to them, which I actually found I enjoyed.

[headshot tM]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... king&hl=en

That's pyro's video.

Also, check my thread below for making picks with only a dremel. It's actually really simple and I'm new to all of this. I just used a grinding wheel (pics in thread) and a reinforced carbon cut off wheel, and it didn't take more than 5 mins.

[Safety0ff]

Any chance you can post some dremel videos? Or at least a simple walkthrough for us dremel-impaired folks? I recently bought one and I'm itching to use it, but I'd like to bank off your experience rather than figure it all out from scratch.

Just incase you're checking back to this thread for a response I've put together a tutorial for making picks with a dremel/rotary tool. I've put the link in the "0" of "-Safety0ff" in my signature (below) so I can refer to it when I need it.

[Kaotik]

And here is Pyros video.

viewtopic.php?t=10527

There is some very good information in there for making picks and tension wrenches.