Where do you store your picks?

[beagle]

It doesn't matter where I put them. The before playing ritual demands getting down on my hands and knees and searching under the furniture, which is where the ones that don't disvaporate completely finally turn up..

 

[WingedWords]

It doesn't matter where I put them. The before playing ritual demands getting down on my hands and knees and searching under the furniture, which is where the ones that don't disvaporate completely finally turn up..

I should change the carpet in my music room. Or my preferred picks. Or maybe put the hoover round.

 

[ClashCityTele]

Wedged under the strings, in the pocket on my gig bag, in my wallet, in a small plastic box that came with orange earplugs, in a plastic bag I use to hold change, in the washing machine. And I still can't find one when I need it. Also, I've stopped buying black ones. Drop it at a gig...it's gone!

 

[Chunkocaster]

I bought a silver dollar pick a few years back just to try it. I got to play with it once for about 20 mins and I haven't seen it since. I know it's in the house somewhere. I've been looking for it for over 4 years now.

 

[RoyBGood]

...in the same place that single socks and ballpoint pens hide.

 

[Ironwolf]

I keep them in a stack of Altoids tins.

 

[Fred Rogers]

I keep a bunch of picks all over the place and in guitar cases. I mostly keep them in my Fender lunch box.

 

[Lake Placid Blue]

I keep a bunch of picks all over the place and in guitar cases. I mostly keep them in my Fender lunch box.View attachment 551577

I want one of those.

 

[Lake Placid Blue]

I keep them in a stack of Altoids tins.

I’ve always wanted to use one of those. But if I do I’m afraid I’ll lose my morning breath.

 

[SacDAve]

Hears my pick holder. I make these out of a rind display insert. I just use scrap around the shop for the box so they cost next to nothing to make. I have a couple these I organized this one for the picture most the time it’s a mess as it should be. These are all V-picks except the back row.


https://www.storesupply.com/pc-1255...rPioCVS9pxQlEv64QT0BQAqV9rmxZNXgaAhOiEALw_wcB

 

[greenhornet]

 

[greenhornet]

I have quite a few picks, but prefer the Dunlop purple Gator Grips. The small coffee jar sits on my amp. But picks are all over the house...

 

[raysachs]

I posted early in this thread where I showed a pretty nice wooden box that had become my pick box - all just loosely tossed in there. Well, lately I've taken up fingerpicking on acoustic - it only took me 40 years to develop the patience to stick with THAT - and I've also developed a stupid taste for boutique picks, of which I have four or five - a few Vespel picks and a few Casein, which have very different feels but are both sublime. I bought them for acoustic playing and I only use the casein for acoustic, but now I play the vespel picks on electric too - they don't make as big a difference on electric (and I'm not a good enough player for any of this to matter a bit!), but I've just come to really dig the feel of them. I still have some cheap-ish picks laying around but I rarely ever play them anymore.

So, then I saw something on the acoustic guitar forum where a guy used a pill organizer as a pick organizer and I thought that was brilliant - not by days of the week but a different compartment for different types of picks. And being older and medically involved now, I had a few extra of those laying around. So I appropriated one. So here's my current setup - much less aesthetically appealing than my first entry, but eminently practical and it stays closed when you're traveling.

Left to right, thumb picks, finger picks in regular use. Vespel picks, Casein picks, Dava grip, Primetones, extra fingerpicks. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday generally stay closed - they're just for pick emergencies which I never have, but I had the compartments and I had the extra picks, so I figured I'd fill 'em up...

unnamed by Ray, on Flickr

-Ray

 

[blowtorch]

I store mine in the clothes dryer, apparently

 

[jimilee]

All over the house. They’re multiplying too.

 

[unixfish]

I have an end table beside my amp and guitars. "Active picks" lay on that or on my amp, and "passive picks" are in the Deluxe Reverb lunch box on the table. Oh - and one in my wallet in case I am out and about. And I have found one in the washing machine filter as well.

 

[Bluego1]

 

[studio1087]

 

[1293]

I keep them in my missing socks.