Innovations
Some picks are made of semi-precious gemstones including jasper, tiger eye, jade, quartz, and others.
Some picks are constructed of compound layers of plastic, connected to form a flexible central section, allowing the guitarist to adjust the pick tip's flexibility by applying various pressure to this central section: a hard grip yields hard pick (thicker one) to play lead, a soft grip yields soft pick (thinner one) to play rhythm.
A few picks are constructed of a handblown borosilicate glass that can double as a guitar slide.
D'Andrea Picks was the first company to create custom pick imprinting in 1938, allowing customers to order imprinting up to 12 block letters. One of the first to make the player imprint popular was guitarist Nick Lucas in the early 1930s.
Jellifish Picks are a unique innovation to guitar picks that add a plucked, bowed, or chorus like sound to picking by using multiple metal tines that strike the strings at different times.
Guthrie Thomas Picks was the first to introduce multicolor imprinting on guitar picks.
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