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Topic: Flat Picks, where can I get them ? |
Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 25 May 2009 6:41 pm |
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Yes, I know you can buy flat picks from any music store, but I've had the flat pick below for nearly 50 years, and it's wearing out...
It used to say Bert Weedon on the front, and it used to have a point.
I've got plenty of other picks, but I particularly like the shape of this one. I've looked all over the Bay Area, and when I was home I looked all over the shops in Birmingham, England, even the store where I bought this one, but no-one sells this shape.
Does anyone know were I can get flat picks this shape ?
(It's not for playing steel: I use regular finger picks for that.) |
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 25 May 2009 7:01 pm
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This is close. It's more of a square than a rectangle, though.
Click Here
You may be able to contact Bert through his website:
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Lee, from South Texas |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 25 May 2009 7:14 pm
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That's certainly very close in shape.
I didn't know Bert Weedon was still with us. He must be very old by now. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 25 May 2009 7:33 pm
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| According to his bio, he was born May 10, 1920. He just passed his 89th birthday. |
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Billy Murdoch
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Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
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Posted 26 May 2009 3:54 am
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Do these picks guarantee You will
"Play in a Day"  |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 26 May 2009 6:38 am
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| Anyone can "Play in a Day", as the book says, but how well is a matter of conjecture. It's taken me 50 years so far.... |
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John Roche
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England
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Posted 26 May 2009 6:52 am
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| I met Bert one day on the Isle of Wight ferry, he is a very funny man, I asked him for my 2/6 back because his book said I could play in a day, i went to a party to play and they threw me out... |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 26 May 2009 7:28 am
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Shouldn't be too big a deal to buy a large pick (I've seen triangular-shaped ones about the size of a match book) and just cut one down with a pair of scissors (doing the final shaping with a piece of sandpaper). I've seen many guitar players make their own custom shapes/sizes this way.  |
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