This is the basic video of how to make a guitar pick.
Now you first draw a pick onto the paper. For a pick you need to have a pick or you are going to have to draw yourself. So let's go ahead and draw that pick onto the paper, to make a pick pattern that we are going to cut out. I'll make a small pick here. That's for like an electric guitar and this picks for an acoustic guitar. It's a little bit bigger. So let's draw this one. You can see that, draw the pick. As the pick here, you can see that, and I am going to make like that, bends a little bit.
Now, just cut out your pick, you can see that. Leave some on the edge about a 16th of an inch. I have to be too exact here, and I've done, hardly see anything. That's our pattern. This is the pick material I am going to use, just some plastic. Go ahead and put some glue on the back of your pick. We don't need too much; just glue it on one spot. You doesn't have to sit too long because we're just going to peel that off, eventually, the pattern. Just go ahead and cut that out. See here, I am just using safety scissors. Go ahead and cut that out, basically on the line, or just slightly outside of it, not much.
You don't have to be too exact sometimes. If you mess up you can try to reshape it. I'll put some more details in the text area of the video. Okay, that looks okay for now. See here, kind of get there. I am going to use a file here to file it into shape to get the rough edges off. The paper is still on the pattern because I need to see any high spots where it needs to be taken down. Then I can take that off. Now I guess we'll take the paper off now. So here we go. You can rinse it off, the glue, but there's our -- we can't see that; it's hard to see sometimes. There, go ahead and start shaping it. Okay, getting better.
Tip doesn't have to be too pointing, that could be just slightly rounded. It does affect the sound, and so does the type of material and thickness you use. Now walking around, whatever you can pick up pieces of plastic you find. Now I am going to level the edge slightly or round it, I guess if you want to call it that. Get some of that plastic off that's sticking up. After you do that, I am just going to fill in there. Now that you've got the edge how you wanted, it's time to smoothen it up, and you can just use a rubber or leather just something like that. This will polish the edge here, see. Just go ahead and do that. Sometimes you can't press too hard, because it will now actually sometimes --
That's your basic pattern of making guitar pick right there. I hope you can see it. There you go, right there, just slight hard to show.
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