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Favorite Comment: Fixer FixerDave says, “It’s a hand-operated arbour press. You’d have to be mighty dumb to get your finger under that and then pull down… never mind. Somebody will do it.”
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I don’t get it…
It is a press that punches guitar picks out of sheets of plastic. This press “accepts all credit cards”
Seems like a win to me!
Dave Ramsey would love this!
Awesome! I want to visit that place. It’s surprising in “today’s world” that they are giving that for free.
I tend to fret about my charge cards so this idea really struck a chord with me.
This machine is Taylor made for United Airlines.
I oouldn’t pick a better way to put it than you did.
HAH. Haha. Ha. Stuck a CHORD. Oh man. That was punny =D
What is the kludge?
there’s an amazing invention called a dictionary. It lists definitions for words like kludge. there are even websites like dictionary dot com that you can use.
They said what is THE kludge not what is A kludge
uhhh…Thank you
Ingenious. Simply ingenious.
Does Dave Ramsey Play guitar?
Brilliant!
Fantastic!
-Where do i put the card? Right here?
-Ooops!
-I guess fingernails would work just as well.
Give it a fingernai and it takes the whole finger.
I guess you haven’t seen this machine in person. It is absolutely impossible to stick any part of the smallest finger where it might be injured. Not a Kludge at all – it’s a very well designed, completely safe, industrial tool from a pick factory.
This one is just super duper good.
Not really a kludge, but just as funny as Kool-Aid Man! Oh YEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
One might say, this is to DIE for! Hurr hurr hurr!
Best machine ever!
WARNING! Don’t let this thing anywhere near your nostrils, even with the offer of free picks.
She’s buying a stairway to heaven….and she gets frequent flyer miles with every purchase.
Not bad, but “make your own” sounds like customers operating the machine, which seems unsafe…
It’s a hand-operated arbour press. You’d have to be mighty dumb to get your finger under that and then pull down… never mind. Somebody will do it.
that’s a foot press dave better leave her alone you still got all nine
Make them sign a release drawn up by the lawyers. It’ll be fine, really.
As long as the stupid people keep killing themselves, the rest of us will be fine.
where is that at?
That’s hilarious. If that’s a store, then I bet they have no problem taking credit cards, though.
I want to use this!!!!!!
I’d love to find one of those at a local music center. I’ve been cutting picks out of expired credit cards, used gift cards, etc, for a while now. They wear out pretty fast, but hey, free picks!
Yeah I known a lot of music center employees and acoustic guitar player to do that stuff.
This is more of a win than a kludge. But it’s still epic.
Not intended use…
uuuhhhh… thats not a credit card, its a safeway club card, they are to help you save money when there are sales!
I don’t know about making music, but my wife can make her credit card beg for mercy.
The best guitar pick that money can buy!
So those supermarket “club” cards DO save you money – on guitar picks at least.
Does anyone know where this was taken?!?
Looks like this is the pick machine at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, CA.
http://gryphonstrings.com/
http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Fun/PickMachine/pickmachine.html
Photo taken at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, CA.
Buying arbor press – $150
Making guitar pick shaped punch & die – $45
Getting mastercard from bank – a piece of you soul.
Turning mastercard into guitar picks – PRICELESS!
I believe this is at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, CA.
That pick making machine was originally from the Cork Grip Pick Company in Oakland, California. It’s operated by foot, and dates from the ‘teens and 1920s, if not earlier. If the guy who worked a full shift operating that thing switched legs now and then, he would probably have been able to drop Lance Armstrong on any hill climb…….
You can’t pinch your fingers, or even your fingernails, when using it. We’ve allowed kids, as well as all adults, to use it for over 25 years without a single injury (and always free of charge, pun intended). Credit cards with the user’s photo on them are especially popular, where else can you get a flatpick with your picture on it?
Right – it is at my shop, Gryphon Stringed Instruments. We acquired the machine some 25 years ago from the legendary Campbell Coe who was closing his vintage instrument store in Berkeley, where it had been on display for years. It was originally used at the Kork-Grip Pick Co. in Oakland, CA
In case you might wonder, the machine is so solid, well designed and set up that it is impossible to get any body part in where it could cause damage. Even the littlest kids are encouraged to make picks. Sometimes it takes two – one to hold the material in place and the other to jump on the foot pedal with both feet.
Every so often we have a visitor who belongs on these pages. One tried to punch a pick out of a thin sheet of picture frame GLASS. Fortunately, we were able to grab his arm first. . .
“In case you might wonder, the machine is so solid, well designed and set up that it is impossible to get any body part in where it could cause damage.”
(I think I smell a challenge)
“Even the littlest kids are encouraged to make picks.”
(We’ve got seven-year olds overseas that we get to crank out ten to fifteen thousand a day)
“Sometimes it takes two – one to hold the material in place and the other to jump on the foot pedal with both feet.”
(or to jump out of the way and call the paramedics)
“Every so often we have a visitor who belongs on these pages. One tried to punch a pick out of a thin sheet of picture frame GLASS.”
(clearly a bad idea. Just imagine the pane…)
“Fortunately, we were able to grab his arm first”
(there it is, hanging next to that Martin guitar)
There’s a strange echo in here.
That’s just plain awesome! It’s like Bugs Bunny – it’s clever on a few levels.
Gryphon Music is a fine shop, with an excellent selection of fine instruments, on the West Coast. The pick machine is cool and beyond reproach, particularly for their suggestion that one use a credit card. It is as the man suggested, safe to operate, except as noted, in the hands of those who are deprived of the most rudimentary form of intelligence. The shop has an excellent website, where one may view the instruments, accessories, amplifiers, and of course, the pick machine. There are few quality music shops of this nature left today because of vicious marketing by MI Giants. Please, support your local independent music stores. In this kind of shop, one can talk with true professionals, instead of wannabes.
I Might “String along” and take a peek – nice recycling of old credit cards!
Uh– Credit card…musician…??? Does anyone else see the problem here?
girlfriend’s credit card
We used to cut up plastic Clorox bottles when we were poor in the 70′s. If we wanted a lot of harmonics, we used pinking shears.
There’s such a huge amount of unused (as yet) humour here:
variations on which credit card you used, eg. This pick? I never leave home without it!
Or blondes actually stamping their current card and getting a pick with a chip. Does that strike a chord?
*runs & hides*
I want that machine, where can I get one?