14k Gold, 925 Sterling Silver, Copper, Brass, Horn & Bone
``The feel of a handcrafted high-end metal wood guitar pick between the fingertips is as relationship building as the guitar is to the guitar player.``
NorwegianWoodPickers Custom Shop is on a dedicated quest to connect the guitarist even further with the instrument, combining the right woods, metals, and specs. — the perfect combination of elements to produce the purest tone possible from the instrument.
The Custom Shop crafts high-end metal/wood guitar picks that contribute to tone, volume, attack, and accuracy. Not to mention the feel. We believe the guitar pick is the most overlooked part of a guitarists rig and we would love to be part of nudging that attitude in the right direction.
Guitar players know how to get the sweetest tones from their instrument, e.g. pickups, bridge, nut, strings, amp, setup, pedals, and cables. Tone Chasers by heart, they will always be looking further for that ultimate tone, they simply can’t stop.
The Custom Shop craft picks from 925 Sterling Silver, Copper and Brass. Woods used are Apple, Bird Cherry, Oak, Blood Beech, Hazel, Ash & Kebony Maple.
“One bright morning you might wake up and open a guitar case with a new guitar inside with a tag attached to the neck that reads… “Please Consider NOT Playing This Precision Handcrafted Wood Instrument With A Plastic Pick.” — Thor M. Renslemo
14k Gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79. Gold is made into alloys like 10k and 14k, due to the fact that pure gold is relatively soft and malleable. 14k gold is less likely to bend or become damaged.
Pure gold can be made into 14k gold by mixing it or creating an alloy with other metals such as copper, nickel and zinc.
In the gold karat scale, one karat amounts to one twenty-fourth pure gold; this means 24k gold is pure gold and 14k gold is 58.5 percent pure.
925s Silver
Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it possesses the highest electrical conductivity of any element, the highest thermal conductivity of any metal and is the most reflective metal on the planet. 925s Sterling Silver is over 90% pure, mixed with alloys to add strength and durability.
925s silver core picks are the most beautiful and better sounding picks we handcraft. The esthetics, the feel, the density, the tone. Built by hand. This is The Custom Shop.
Copper
Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from Latin: cuprum) and atomic number 29. Copper occurs naturally as native copper and was known to some of the oldest civilizations on record.
It has a history of use that is at least 10,000 years old, and estimates of its discovery place it at 9000 BC in the Middle East. The uses of copper in art were not limited to currency, but it was also used by Renaissance sculptors, in photographic technology known as the daguerreotype, and the Statue of Liberty.
Copper was the first metal we used crafting wood metal picks. The first prototypes sounded amazing! It was just so beautiful compared to acetate. It was so much more nuanced, I felt it underlined what i played.
Brass
Alloy of copper and zinc, important for its hardness and workability. Brass was first used circa 1200 BC in the NearEast, then extensively in China after 220 BC , and soon thereafter by the Romans. In ancient documents, including the Bible, the term brass is often used to denote bronze (copper/tin alloy). The proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties.
Horn
Alloy of copper and zinc, important for its hardness and workability. Brass was first used circa 1200 BC in the NearEast, then extensively in China after 220 BC , and soon thereafter by the Romans. In ancient documents, including the Bible, the term brass is often used to denote bronze (copper/tin alloy). The proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties.
Bone
Alloy of copper and zinc, important for its hardness and workability. Brass was first used circa 1200 BC in the NearEast, then extensively in China after 220 BC , and soon thereafter by the Romans. In ancient documents, including the Bible, the term brass is often used to denote bronze (copper/tin alloy). The proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties.
