Black Buffalo Horn Guitar Or Bass Pick - 3.0 mm Ultra Heavy Gauge - 351 Wedge Shape - Polished Finish Handmade Specialty Exotic Plectrum

Black Buffalo Horn Guitar Or Bass Pick - 3.0 mm Ultra Heavy Gauge - 351 Wedge Shape - Polished Finish Handmade Specialty Exotic Plectrum

These natural Black Buffalo Horn plectrums are a great addition to your exotic guitar pick collection. Each pick is handcrafted and buffed to a polished finish. These exotic plectrums can be used for any stringed instrument, and sound great for acoustic or electric guitar players. These picks feature a standard 351 pick shape with a beveled tip. These picks feel very smooth and comfortable in the hand, and because of the familiar 351 shape they are an excellent first exotic pick design to try out.

Horn picks are known to closely mimic the tonal qualities of the tortoise shell picks of the past, which were traditionally one of the most popular pick materials. This is because they are made of keratin, which is the same material a tortoise shell is composed of. Horn plectrums offer a very warm and mellow tone.

These picks have a very attractive aesthetic and come in a polished finish which showcases the material used and its organic beauty. Because these are a natural handmade product each one is unique and will vary in appearance, as well as slightly in size and thickness. These plectrums are a very thick heavy gauge and measure approximately 3.0mm where you grip the pick, and are beveled down at the tip.

Start exploring new tones with these exotic Black Buffalo Horn guitar picks today because the simplest and most inexpensive way to change your tone is to change your pick.

Specifications:

• Thickness: Approximately 3.0mm where you grip the pick, and beveled down at the tip
• Color: Black Buffalo Horn
• Material: Black Buffalo Horn
• Size: Approximately 30mm x 25mm x 3.0mm
• Shape: Standard 351 pick shape beveled down at the tip
• Blank guitar picks, no printing or logo

About The Material These Picks Are Made From:

Plectrums made from animal horn have been used traditionally throughout the world since the dawn of stringed instruments millennia ago. Horn is one of the most popular and versatile natural materials available for making guitar picks.

Prior to the 20th century tortoise shell was perhaps the most sought after material used for crafting guitar picks. A combination of excellent tone, flexibility compared to many other natural materials, and other more subtle qualities made it highly desirable. Tortoise shell was so perfectly suited to the task of being used as a pick that to this day most modern synthetic materials used for guitar picks are still trying to replicate the qualities of natural tortoise shell.

Fortunately, nature had already created a solution. Because horn is made of keratin, the same material as tortoise shell, the tonal qualities are very similar. This makes horn an excellent natural substitute to tortoise shell for making guitar picks. Our picks are crafted out of water buffalo horn and are available in solid black horn, solid white horn, or picks that feature both black and white coloration in a single pick.