Recycling Old Credit Cards to Make Guitar Picks.

[PaxNurgle]

Do any of you guys ever do this? It's a perfect use for old expired credit cards.

First, trace the outline of your pick shape with a felt tip pen (the ink will wipe off pretty easily), using one of the corners of the card as a starting point. Then using sharp shears, cut out the teardrop shape to your size and specifications and voila, you can get two, sometimes three guitar picks from one old credit card. It's especially cool if you get that silver hologram thing, or part of the chip, included on your pick.

Anyway, I thought it was a cool idea; why not recycle? Otherwise those old credit cards will either end up in a landfill, or worse, someone can just copy the info off them and commit fraud. If they are cut up into guitar picks, though, they can't do that.

Then you can jam out with your friends, using your own custom made guitar picks made from recycled material.

 

[Not Normal]

I tried it years ago. I'm happier with commercially available picks.

 

[jehoram]

I borrowed a sort of punch that you can use on credit cards to make picks. I found the picks to be about as good as the ones you buy at the store, once you sand down the edges to make them smoother. But some cards are just laminated cardboard, and they fall apart once you do some strumming.

 

[Saint_Ann]

You could always just use a sixpence.

 

[Britva415]

Wow, that hella escalated.

 

[Saint_Ann]

You could always jam the card up your asshole and wait to die

Google it.

 

[Britva415]

CC material makes really shitty guitar picks. I’m not even talking about the cardboard cards. CC plastic just isn’t tough enough or hard enough. They break hella easy, get eroded down very fast, and don’t sound good at all.

 

[KyleR215]

I have never tried it. But reading this thread, I am still not about to try it. I'll pay the 5 bucks and get the properly made ones and pay for them with my credit card

 

[snide22]

yes, tried it here...don't like it

 

[Shaglus_Ziegler]

Do any of you guys ever do this? It's a perfect use for old expired credit cards.

First, trace the outline of your pick shape with a felt tip pen (the ink will wipe off pretty easily), using one of the corners of the card as a starting point. Then using sharp shears, cut out the teardrop shape to your size and specifications and voila, you can get two, sometimes three guitar picks from one old credit card. It's especially cool if you get that silver hologram thing, or part of the chip, included on your pick.

Anyway, I thought it was a cool idea; why not recycle? Otherwise those old credit cards will either end up in a landfill, or worse, someone can just copy the info off them and commit fraud. If they are cut up into guitar picks, though, they can't do that.

Then you can jam out with your friends, using your own custom made guitar picks made from recycled material.

I’ve done it