
Zaphod B
Raccoons-Be-Gone, Inc.
A coworker who is a fellow guitarist and collector (mostly resonators and acoustics) called me over to his desk a few minutes ago.
He handed me a hand-made pick made from bois d'arc, that he made especially with me in mind. Very cool, the same size as a "standard" pick but thicker than celluloid of course. Very nicely made and the grain is beautiful. It was a nice gesture and completely unexpected.
Then he pulled out a couple of solid silver peso picks that he made by hand, saying that he had copied the idea after he heard that Billy Gibbons played a peso pick. These are sized about halfway between a standard and a jazz pick and he did a really fine job on them. You can clearly see "UN PESO" and the face of whatever Mexican general or politician is on it. He gave one similar to these to Ian Moore after seeing him play live a few years back adn said that Ian really liked it.
After I commented on what great attack that silver pick would have on an electric he handed one of those to me as well!
Just when I get to thinking that people are mostly assholes, someone has to go and do something unexpectedly generous and thoughtful to me, and make me rethink the human race all over again.
Thanks, Ron, I'll treasure these.
Looks like I'm gonna have to find some silver pesos for you!
He handed me a hand-made pick made from bois d'arc, that he made especially with me in mind. Very cool, the same size as a "standard" pick but thicker than celluloid of course. Very nicely made and the grain is beautiful. It was a nice gesture and completely unexpected.
Then he pulled out a couple of solid silver peso picks that he made by hand, saying that he had copied the idea after he heard that Billy Gibbons played a peso pick. These are sized about halfway between a standard and a jazz pick and he did a really fine job on them. You can clearly see "UN PESO" and the face of whatever Mexican general or politician is on it. He gave one similar to these to Ian Moore after seeing him play live a few years back adn said that Ian really liked it.
After I commented on what great attack that silver pick would have on an electric he handed one of those to me as well!
Just when I get to thinking that people are mostly assholes, someone has to go and do something unexpectedly generous and thoughtful to me, and make me rethink the human race all over again.
Thanks, Ron, I'll treasure these.
Looks like I'm gonna have to find some silver pesos for you!