making your pin/spring keeper for bogotas

[ElbowMacaroni]

I got one with the straw. I quite like the straw personally. It holds them well and helps to prevent their loss.

-EM

[DonR]

could someone who understands what I was saying make some photos showing how easily this is done?

Raimundo,

I could not view the other pictures so I don't know if they are available or not, I just know that I cannot view them.

This is one safety pin and pen spring set I made for a set of your picks I purchased from SEREPICK a couple years ago. I have purchased more of them over the last couple years and value them highly.

[raimundo]

Hard to see by the photo if that safty pin has the particular type of anti fouling tab that I specify in my post, I think minions photo had the wrong type, with a slope that leads the spring into the clasp, rather than the correct tab that is steep and will not do this, using the wrong safty pin will make a keep that quickly has problems,
nest the two picks and lead the two tips together into the spring at the end of the safty pin opposite the clasp, compress the pen spring when you get to the twist, allow the pair of picks to follow the 90degree turn of the twist as the compressed pen spring slides over the twist all the way so that is sets on the pair between the tensor bend and the twist.
Look carefully at what is happening if you are having trouble,
the pair should be nesting together, do not allow the back strap of the safty pin to come between the two pickshafts, this will not work and appears to be the reason that yours is unable to pass over the twist with them in it. you need to pull them out and reinsert them in your pinspring device, start from the coil end of the saftypin. this makes it easy to pin them on, if you put them on from the clasp end, it won't work very well.

[DonR]

Raimundo,

Thanks for the help, I love these tools!

[boogietoot]

I made a Nagoya rakeout of a bit of .6mm springsteel and a precut pipe key. I cut off the remainder of the flag and filed the bottom end of the pick tp fit into the pin end of the key, bit of knead it and its set pretty good. Now I just have a bit of plastic tube with that it slips into a little bit bigger then the key. I'd post pictures but I don't have any where to post them lol. The key is about 3inch long from bow to tip and pick hangs out another 1.5 inch. Its really comfortable to use.

[Maliphus7]

Now I just walked over to my table and grabbed some of my rough cuts i was working on and snapped some pics so apologies but these are not finished picks except the smallest ones are my personal play toy Frankensteins I just wanted to show real quick that multiple sizes fit in the Bra Strap Extender i bought at walmart for $1.75 in the sewing isle next to where i purchased my safety pins!

This works great for me can fold em in or out the SUPER SOFT cotton backing feel great can just slip it in my sock and never even think about it at all! The back of the bra strap extender has 2 little clips meant for clipping to bra we know how tough those barbed baddies can be and i reckon someone could hook them to inside of a boot or cut a slit in something and slide this inside and let the clips do their job. lots of options! Just wanted to share this with you guys i know its not the classic spring and saftey pin style but i like it sometimes also for the ones i make.

(I dono whether i should post pictures to the side or leave them in URL so ill do one image and rest URL)



http://puu.sh/lqBZh/cc6c0574a7.jpg

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[YouLuckyFox]

Good thinking, and lends itself to velcro applications!

[Maliphus7]

Good thinking, and lends itself to velcro applications!

True and im sure the regular middle twist version instead of my end twist ones would still work fine

[gademsky]

Anyone know where I can buy some of the original bogatas?

[Squelchtone]

Anyone know where I can buy some of the original bogatas?

you can't, Raimundo has not made any in a year or two. You can get some titanium ones that I believe are Raimundo approved over at http://serepick.com/ which is a trustworthy site, and was the only site to ever sell his real hand made Bogotas until they ran out when he stopped making them.

Also, this is asked quite often, please use the Search function, I believe someone just asked this a day or two ago in another thread.

oh wait.. it was you asking.. did you not see the reply? viewtopic.php?f=8&t=62879&p=466173

Squelchtone