Take your pick: guitar picks made from (from bottom to top) polyacetal, nylon, polyacetal, and celluloid Credit: Alex Tullo/C&EN Hobbies can turn ordinary people into materials scientists.

The end result is part guitar and part bass, and was made using the client’s 40-year-old pickups, a vintage cigar humidor box as the body, a handle from an old suitcase, and kitchen backsplash ...

Steve Clayton, Inc., located in Talent, has become one of the top two guitar pick manufacturers in the country. The company, which provides guitar picks to famous musicians and was first to launch ...

Researchers at Kyushu University debuted the world's first silica glass guitar pick with a live performance at the United Nations International Year of Glass 2022 closing ceremony.

Thinner picks are better for looser strummed playing and funk as there is less resistance between the guitar pick and string. Pick material can also play a part in tone. Some materials like nylon will ...

From there, he continued to experiment, creating picks out of various materials, in different shapes and thicknesses. “I read every issue of Guitar Player magazine and found the parts where ...