[dorio]

Yes, this happens to me rather frequently before or after I play on acoustic ploof
the pick escapes my fingers and get trapped in the body. Sometimes, no matter
how hard I shake the guitar with the hole looking down It wouldn't come out. Do
you know any tricks, thinking average acoustic Gibson. It just happened again !

[dadfad]

Best solution... give up using picks!


(Just messin' with ya! )

Try to get the pick situated exactly under the sound-hole as you look down through it. Quickly turn the guitar upside down (Centrifugal force will generally keep the pick in place.). Then it will fall out straight through the sound-hole.





(And I won't even get into remarks like saying it's God's way of telling you what he thinks about using a pick, etc, etc... )

[Scorp]

I HATE it when that happens.....
Hasn't happened to me in a while tho. Probably will tonight.

[dadfad]

When I started playing more fingerstyle and doing solo acoustic things, at first I used finger and thumb-picks (I'd pretty much quit using flat-picks for quite awhile with rare exceptions.). As I got better and began doing things like picking in both directions with my fingers and thumb they'd often get caught in the strings and get pulled off or fall inside, etc. One night on a back-picked note I shot a steel fingerpick out into the front row and hit a guy sitting at a table right in the cheek just under his eye hard enough to give him quite a welt!

I was about ready to quit using them anyway, but that kind of convinced me. I still use them a little bit, but only on acoustic-slide where the fingerpicking isn't usually all that complex and I want all the attack and sustain I can get, but not in real fingerstyle tunes.

[towniceman]

What kind of picks do you use?try buying some picks with a roughed up texture to them,I use the dunlop nylon picks for that reason and it has cut down on slippage greatly.

[okiejohn]

Well, first on the flat picks, just do what I do...leave em in there, after a while they get piled up to where they are easy to get out, just tip the guitar a bit and a whole handful will fall out, and then ya got a supply to last for a while.

On the finger picks, and this is true, I caught a Freddy King finger pick one time when it came flyin at me from the stage. I put it in my shirt pocket and figured I'd just keep it for a souvenir, but at the end of the tune he acted like he wanted it back, so I was more than happy to hand it to him. He put on a good show, I spect it was worth givin a pick back.

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When I started playing more fingerstyle and doing solo acoustic things, at first I used finger and thumb-picks (I'd pretty much quit using flat-picks for quite awhile with rare exceptions.). As I got better and began doing things like picking in both directions with my fingers and thumb they'd often get caught in the strings and get pulled off or fall inside, etc. One night on a back-picked note I shot a steel fingerpick out into the front row and hit a guy sitting at a table right in the cheek just under his eye hard enough to give him quite a welt!

I was about ready to quit using them anyway, but that kind of convinced me. I still use them a little bit, but only on acoustic-slide where the fingerpicking isn't usually all that complex and I want all the attack and sustain I can get, but not in real fingerstyle tunes.

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Did the bloke get the hump about it?

[dadfad]

No, he was okay about it. The club-owner bought him a free drink, everybody at his table laughed and all that.



Thank God he wasn't a lawyer!

[Scorp]

Well, first on the flat picks, just do what I do...leave em in there, after a while they get piled up to where they are easy to get out, just tip the guitar a bit and a whole handful will fall out, and then ya got a supply to last for a while.

That's hilarious!!!

[knot4reel91]

Well, first on the flat picks, just do what I do...leave em in there, after a while they get piled up to where they are easy to get out, just tip the guitar a bit and a whole handful will fall out, and then ya got a supply to last for a while.

That's hilarious!!!

haha good solution i absolutely cannot stand when that happens to me i just tip the guitar upside down and shake a little bit until it eventually comes out

[mantra]

Just happened to me. Took about 10 minutes of peeping into the hole (yeah, that does sound weird) and aligning the guitar, tipping it, shaking it and eventually shaking it harder for it to come out.

[dorio]

Cheers Dadfad the way you do it sounds sound to me. I'll try the next time the pick slips..I used those 'fingers n thumb' (plastic ones) before. EDIT: Yeah It worked

I'm more a strummer guy than finger-picking I'm more into rhythm than arpege so I need my pick

Okie's way's smart, I'd never thought of keeping them inside


- Towniceman: I use Dunlop too of various kinds, the thinner the better but It's not
easy to take em off the hole once they've slipped

[Claptonman]

Use a pencil to hold it and drag it to where the hole is and turn it upside down. Works most of the time for me.

[Captain_Trips]

that happened to me once and I just played and accepted its annoying rattle for like three months before I got it out

[greatness7410]

tape & pencil.

Works every time.

[mrbojangles111]

I just re-enact the end of a Kiss concert to get it out.

[imadique]

Prevention is the cure, try taping some flyscreen or simliar mesh over the soundhole.

Note: method untested, but I'm sure it'd work

[dorio]

Prevention is the cure, try taping some flyscreen or simliar mesh over the soundhole.

What a good idea Dique ! Have it 'breveted' before someone "borrows" It. I plan
to fix a little patch from a mosquito net that way It should be 100% pick-slip proof.

[Stratatat]

Done it a thousand times. What really stinks is when it gets wedged in the bracing.

[The_buffalo]

Herco makes flat picks with a loop that goes over your thumb, so you can use it for flat picking & finger picking. They may stay on a little better, and may come out easier if they do go inside. They also make round rubber soundhole covers, to help cut down the feed-back on acoustic-electric guitars.