Care and Feeding of Your V-Pick™

You will most likely never have to perform any maintenance on your V-Pick.  However, after some extreme use, you may try a few tips I have to return your V-Pick to top condition. If any of you come up with some cool tips as well, please e-mail them to me and we can share them with other V-Pick artists.

If, after some hard miles, your V-Pick becomes scuffed or scratched, a bit of toothpaste between your fingers rubbed on the pick will bring it back to a pristine shine.  It will look brand new again! ...................................................................

I purposly make each V-Pick with fairly pointy corners.  I do this to make sure your V-Pick has enough brightness and attack.  It does however, create a little resistance because of the point.  On my personal picks I take that point off.  It is not as bright a sound but that is more than ok with me.  It does make the pick have much faster action and less resistance.  I feel like I can fly with my picks modified in this manner.  It is very easy to do.  Just take a fine piece of sand paper, hold the pick in an upright position like you are getting ready to strum the sandpaper.  Instead, rub the pick on the sandpaper just a bit in the opposite direction with a rocking motion.  Just enough to take some of the point off.  Don't get too carried away with this.  Do just a bit and then try it on your guitar.  You can barely see a difference with the naked eye, but just a little bit of this will change the action and the sound.  Then again, a little toothpaste afterwards takes the small scratches away and gives it back that slippery feel once again. ......................................................................

Another thing I like to do with each V-Pick before I send them out to you is to take a very sharp paring knife and scrape each edge of the pick.  It is not neccessary to push hard on the knife.  It will catch any inconsistancy that may be on that edge.  Just a little bump or burr can create some unwanted scratch or brightness that may be unwanted.  I like the edge of my V-Picks to be like glass.  You will know the feel after you have done it a few times.  Doing this occasionally on an old V-Pick can make it play and sound like new again. ........................................................................

If you drop your V-Pick and cannot find it, the best way to find that little bugger is to turn every light in the room on.  The V-Pick will catch any light beam and almost seems to amplify it.  I don't have great vision any longer but I can easily find a V-Pick on the floor with plenty of light. .........................................................................

Every once in a while, take your V-Pick to the sink and wash it with bar soap.  Over time, I have found that oils build up on it and it seems to get just a bit more slippery.  When you wash them it seems to make it grab like brand new.  Try it sometime. ...........................................................................

One of my artists from Japan likes to rub a glow-in-the-dark liquid material on his V-Picks.  This not only makes them easy to find when dropped, it also draws quite a bit if attention while performing.  He says folks actually walk up and try to grab them out of his hand while playing!  Quite an attention getter, I guess! ..........................................................................

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