Something's Missing?
Looks like I've only got three out of four picks there. I made these over the summer, but until now they were (essentially) unfinished pieces of metal that did the job for the most part, and only occasionally cut my hands. But no more! I've taken a bit of time to run them through the ol' polishing book and give them some snazzy rubber handles. However, I don't have the fourth pick...
So this Saturday, in celebration of the fact that I will have finished the last of my finals by then, I will be making a half diamond pick to round out the set of picks to a square number. Why would I tell you this? Because I plan to broadcast it this Saturday at 1PM PST on the Google Hangout thing that I always drag on about, so all of you can see a chunk of metal turn into a pick-shaped piece of metal, then into a shank, and back into a nice and polished pick, complete with handle! I don't have any fancy tools, but the end results look pretty nice:
At the end, I'll post and album of the finished set and the creation of the picks, so look forward to that as well.
Hope to see you Saturday!
-Colin