What's So Special About Stone Guitar Picks?

If you've never tried a Picks and Stones Gemstone Guitar Pick you may be wondering "What's so special about Stone Guitar Picks?" The answer is...

Stone Tone

The first and foremost feature of the stone guitar pick is its incredible tone quality and the full resonance it gives to your instruments voice. To understand the difference between stone and plastic it's important to know that stringed instruments have an aspect of percussion to them.

The "Plectrum" or "Pick" is used to "strike" the strings, much the way that a hammer strikes a bell. Could you imagine striking a bell with a plastic hammer? Yet we use various types of plastic to strike the strings of our instruments never thinking of how it effects their voices.

Plastic dampens and absorbs the tonal potential of the strings and even makes a flicking clicking noise that we just get used to. Stone is harder than the metal of the strings and doesn't absorb any of the initial impact of your attack. Part of the Stone Pick experience is the absence of plastic, and the completion of our instrument's voice.

Gemstones

Gemstone Guitar Picks are both Gemstones, and Guitar Picks. There is no difference between the stones we use to make Picks and the stones that are used to make jewelry. Like jewelry, no two stone Picks are alike, but all are real specimens.

We use only natural, undyed agates for our guitar picks. Most every Gemstone Guitar Pick is absolutely beautiful, but we take no credit for the colors and patterns in the stone, they were already beautiful.

It is a great reward to remove the outer layers of an Agate and expose its' incredible design to the world. But aesthetics are secondary to the practical nature of the guitar pick, a wonderful bonus!

Heirloom

Gemstone guitar picks will last for hundreds, if not thousands of years! In fact, they are made from stones that formed over the past ten thousand years and there's no reason they can't go on for ten thousand more.

Though Stone Picks are stronger than glass, they can break under similar circumstances. Be especially careful over cement floors or asphalt and never put thin stone picks in your wallet.

It is unlikely that your Stone pick will ever chip or scratch so if you don't pass it on to you children it never loses its resale value. Needless to say, it could be the last Guitar Pick you ever buy.

Versatility

Until recently, there has been a relatively limited variety of guitar pick shapes to choose from. Combo picks have opened the door to a broad new field of possibilities.

You can have the primary Features of three different Picks combined into one extremely versatile pick. Have you ever tried to change guitar picks between songs? How about in the middle of a song? If you consider making such adjustments too difficult to deal with, now it's more possible than ever before.

Check out our Combo Picks page to see what can be done with our basic building blocks. And of course check out the Combo Picks currently in stock.