Reinventing the wheel... and making it worse! *warning* plectrum content for the easily offended

[warwickhunt]

How can you make the plectrum better... by putting it in a case and making it wobbly!  

 

https://www.plextrum.com/?fbclid=IwAR3Pj06J_za93BY5R67PBsxIwTRQgTxFWGpynrzsmRjv9EYPZ8WgV1-C-o8

 

 

 

[Happy Jack]

It doesn't even exist:

 

Images of Plextrum are illustrative, final Plextrums will be different in appearance as the above image is a CAD render.

[warwickhunt]

Just now, Happy Jack said:

It doesn't even exist:

 

Images of Plextrum are illustrative, final Plextrums will be different in appearance as the above image is a CAD render.

 

WOW... so they could be even worse?  LOL

 

[musicbassman]

This makes about as much sense as keyless ignition in cars - i.e. a solution looking for a non-existent problem.

[Old Horse Murphy]

[geoham]

About 15 years ago, my mother got in contact with a long-lost cousin who had emigrated to Canada as a kid. He eventually visited us in Scotland, and brought over a huge box of 'Ridley 3-way picks', that his son had invented and got a patent for. Basically, two plectrums together at slightly different angles. It could sound quite nice on acoustic or jangly electric, though didn't really work for bass.

I don't think they ever really took off, but this post did remind me of them a little!

[Nail Soup]

Many years ago, I used to buy Sharks Fin picks, with a kind of rippled edge to give multiple strikes per strum.

It did make a difference in sound on a 6 string, but not enough once in the mix to be worthwhile really.

[Marvin_]

I could see the value in it if the idea is to thicken the grip part - I find it much more comfortable to play with thicker picks (use ~3mm felt picks for older stuff, 3mm stubby triangles on guitar, but like a thin pick for more aggressive picked bass, but I find using a 0.76mm pick less comfortable - more force required).

 

Slightly less convinced by the flexible nature though. Is it trying to act like a flexible/thin plectrum, but with rigid/more durable material?

[warwickhunt]

Going off the image, I'd say it actually 'moves', rather than flexes!

[Guest]

So all these years Ive used Tortex Triangle 1.0 for the slight give, when all this time I should have been using picks that flex or move within a housing? Ive thrown my life away!

[Marvin_]

18 minutes ago, warwickhunt said:

Going off the image, I'd say it actually 'moves', rather than flexes!

Sorry, that's what I meant by flexible. Total vocabulary failure to use the same word to describe two different things in the same sentence... I'm assuming the 'tongue' as they've termed it is rigid and moves about a pivot, rather than flexing like a traditional thin-ish pick, and is there to account for that action?

 

If it flexes and moves, it's going to feel really inprecise I reckon.

[warwickhunt]

The guitarists I play with use 3mm picks... I use 1mm!  They would HATE this idea, you'd have a fraction of delay from pressing the pick against the string and then on the release for the next strike.  I just think it creates a problem that wasn't there in the 1st place.    

[Stub Mandrel]

2 hours ago, geoham said:

About 15 years ago, my mother got in contact with a long-lost cousin who had emigrated to Canada as a kid. He eventually visited us in Scotland, and brought over a huge box of 'Ridley 3-way picks', that his son had invented and got a patent for. Basically, two plectrums together at slightly different angles. It could sound quite nice on acoustic or jangly electric, though didn't really work for bass.

I don't think they ever really took off, but this post did remind me of them a little!

 

I had one that was like two picks spaced part by about 1/8", it did give 12-string like attack, but not the shimmer afterwards. Not something I used much.

[SH73]

Can you slap with it?

[adamg67]

1 hour ago, SH73 said:

Can you slap with it?

If you must, but draw the curtains first.

[Nail Soup]

For the last few weeks my FB feed has continuously features a guitar pick with kind of triangular/pyramid shape lumps on the surface (surface which strokes the string, not the gripping surface)

This thread comes up so I pop over to FB to find it and post here. Is it in my feed? No. What are the odds eh 😃!

[paul_5]

Not sure they’d be any good for metal.

[SH73]

1 hour ago, paul_5 said:

Not sure they’d be any good for metal.

They'd make the bass sound Megadead

[SteveXFR]

2 hours ago, paul_5 said:

Not sure they’d be any good for metal.

 

Replace the word "metal" with the word "anything" and I'll agree

[Maude]

11 hours ago, musicbassman said:

This makes about as much sense as keyless ignition in cars - i.e. a solution looking for a non-existent problem.

 

My next invention, to solve the problem of where to put the fob so it doesn't rattle and slide around, is to fit it with a little metal blade and fit a receptacle to the side of the steering column to slot the blade into, leaving the fob hanging in a convenient, easy to hand location. 

 

Oh yeah, and the plectrum is stupid...

 

...and yes, I am a miserable bugger tonight 😁. 

Edited December 6, 2021 by Maude

[EBS_freak]

To think… all these years where guitarists have been held back.

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited March 16, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[Maude]

While I've got my inventors hat on. 

Couldn't the bridge be mounted on lateral roller bearings to provide an inbuilt 'slop' to negate the need for this plectrum? 

If that's too technical then maybe just drill a hole in your plectrum and tie a little string loop through it. Then holding the string, just swing the plectrum at the strings.

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited March 16, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[Bridgehouse]

10 minutes ago, Jus Lukin said:

 firing one-per-note in a precision strike on the strings. 

Please note: For balance, other Fender basses are available.