A lovely little phenomenon of re-using credit cards as guitar picks was just discovered by yours truly today. I was inside one of the rental houses my aunt owns and pow, there it was, right there in the basement where the dudes keep their band equipment: a guitar pick made out of a credit card. Just genius.
Check out some other examples of similar ingenuity below courtesy of man durphy, DStrick64, terryhadalittlelamb, Aud1073ch, imageburns, and PickPunch (who manufacture a handheld punching device which makes making this pick super simple.) The funniest thing about this thang is that everyone seems to find their self giving instructions on how to make such a pick when they post a pic of the pick. Believe it!



























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[...] World Famous Design Junkies have recently stumbled upon a great little upcycling hack. They noticed a number of people re-using [...]
[...] World Famous Design Junkies have invented this ingenious little machine, the PickPunch. And it does exactly what it says: upcycles guitar picks from credit cards and other plastic materials, opening the doors to creative and eco-friendly DIY guitarmanship. It’s a stretch for an eco fashion blog, but we do remember punching holes in guitar picks and wearing them around our necks in high school because we had crushes on certain people who used those guitar picks, or just to seem cool, etc…. Ok, we still think it’s cool. [...]
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