Bring your pretty face to my axe! – Gimli of Gloin An awful lot of romantic fiction has been written about the desert. The endless savagery, vast expanses and infinite interpretations of that wild, barren place conjure mystic, incredible notions of ancient thoughts and spiritual realms. What does this have to do with the subject […]
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.― G.K. Chesterton Over the course of my journey through the Plectroverse, I’ve been presented wtih some incredible materials. Woods, plastics, bone, rocks, compressed corn somehow, recycled landfill – but cheese is right up there. Why am I mentioning this? Well, that’s because this pick is […]
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near one. –J.R.R. Tolkien The heat in Arizona is quite something. A huge portion of this southwestern state is desert, and as romantic and Kyuss-y as that sounds, all that expanse can do crazy things to people. These insane […]
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. – Henry David Thoreau It’s not often that I have to be talked into trying picks out by anyone, but I’m always happy to put my hand up and declare when I’ve made a discovery off someone […]
花は桜木人は武士 – Japanese proverb Weathering the storm like a pro, Matthew Heafy has taken a fair bit of heat over the years, ever since his band Trivium leapt onto the scene in 1999. For all the beef and slander, Heafy has risen above it, with Trivium releasing their eighth album (What The Dead Men Say) […]
They had curved swords. *Curved* swords. – Whiterun Guard A Nepalese/Indian weapon not meant to be a laugh, the Kukri is a lethal blade developed in the 16th century, designed to give you the death. I remember seeing them in books as a young man – there’s a romantic drama to this sort of weapon […]
Nature is pleased with simplicity. – Isaac Newton The modern plectrum hasn’t existed for all that long if you think about it. Although the shapes we use today go back to the late 1900’s, the shapes that the plectrum in its purest form have taken are myriad, with each one being another way of tackling […]
“That’ll do pig – that’ll do.” – Babe Since the 1910’s, the Plectroverse has been centred around plastic. This is perfectly understandable – materials like Celluloid, Acetal, Nylon and Acrylic are relatively easy and cost-effective to produce, and as guitarists are pretty careless as a general rule, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that synthetics […]
“It’s a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.”― Hiromu Arakawa I’m a big fan of people taking risks in the Plectroverse. Every new maker that gets added fills me with excitement, especially when they’re looking to do something different. In the last year, there’s been an increase in new makers, […]
“Fast and bulbous, tight also”. – Don Von Vliet Easily the most pick-centric genre in music, gypsy jazz has more dedicated plectrum companies than any other. Even though I’m no jazzist and certainly not a gypsy player by any means, I can still judge a pick based on its functionality, and some time ago while […]