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Lets say that I want to glue two dunlop knurled guitar picks together,
Posted on 7/17/20 at 8:05 am
Posted on 7/17/20 at 8:05 am
what would be the best glue for that? I have tried a few different glues, but they come apart after a little bit of playing. Would like to find something that holds a bit better.
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Posted on 7/17/20 at 8:49 am to auggie
Not sure what a knurled Dunlop pick is made of nor how deep the ridges (if any) ?
But guessing it's a type of plastic my best thought would be G/flex by Gougeon Brothers (West Systems). Simply because it's the best plastic adhesive I know of. It'd be way pricey for a pick. . . but can be used for a lot of different uses and a little goes a long way.
But guessing it's a type of plastic my best thought would be G/flex by Gougeon Brothers (West Systems). Simply because it's the best plastic adhesive I know of. It'd be way pricey for a pick. . . but can be used for a lot of different uses and a little goes a long way.
Posted on 7/17/20 at 8:58 am to awestruck
One trick you might try first
... is heating the picks up a bit with a flame, just lightly, the thought was it helped if the structure was cross-linked and not linear. Which is much harder to adhere or bond to. We use to do this with patching busted up whitewater canoes and kayaks.
G'luck
... is heating the picks up a bit with a flame, just lightly, the thought was it helped if the structure was cross-linked and not linear. Which is much harder to adhere or bond to. We use to do this with patching busted up whitewater canoes and kayaks.
G'luck
Posted on 7/17/20 at 9:02 am to awestruck
I was just looking, and the material is Nylon. 1 thing I haven't tried, is PVC primer and cement. That may work, it actually melts the pvc a little bit to give a good bond, maybe it will work on nylon too. Maybe model car glue might work too. Whatever the glue is, it needs some flexibility, so it doesn't just break. That's been the problem so far.
Trying to stack them. Seems like it would be a little easier to do
Trying to stack them. Seems like it would be a little easier to do
This post was edited on 7/17/20 at 9:06 am
Posted on 7/17/20 at 9:12 am to auggie
Stack them? With separation like the two ends of an ice cream sandwich?
Sounds intertesting. Are you trying to get a doubling effect?
Posted on 7/17/20 at 9:21 am to Mizz-SEC
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Stack them? With separation like the two ends of an ice cream sandwich? Sounds intertesting. Are you trying to get a doubling effect?
That's pretty much the idea, and using 2 different thickness picks. It sounds good until the glue breaks, then it goes dead.
Posted on 7/17/20 at 9:29 am to auggie
Along that same line is a glue for shower pans it's more flexible than regular everyday PVC cement.
Yep, the flex is everything. And of course amounts to several dollars for every attempt at a guitar pick. And they use to practically give the things away (and often did). You tried good old fashioned silicon caulk?
Yep, the flex is everything. And of course amounts to several dollars for every attempt at a guitar pick. And they use to practically give the things away (and often did). You tried good old fashioned silicon caulk?
Posted on 7/17/20 at 9:38 am to awestruck
The silicone was a little too soft and flexible, gave a dull sound. Super glue was good, but cracked after about a minute. Gorilla wood glue held up a little better, but still came apart, after about 2 minutes of hard playing. I've been messing with this for a few days, clamping the picks together and letting the glue set up at least 24 hours.
Posted on 7/17/20 at 9:47 am to awestruck
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Along that same line is a glue for shower pans it's more flexible than regular everyday PVC cement.
That's a good suggestion to try, is it also a 2 part primer and glue type?
Posted on 7/17/20 at 9:54 am to auggie
Try a five-minute epoxy, in the two-tube packet. Clear resin in one tube, clear hardener in the other.
Posted on 7/17/20 at 10:13 am to auggie
Gorilla glue (not the wood variety) should hold damn near anything.
This post was edited on 7/17/20 at 10:14 am
Posted on 7/17/20 at 10:18 am to TheFretShack
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Try a five-minute epoxy, in the two-tube packet. Clear resin in one tube, clear hardener in the other.
Gonna buy a few different things to try today, that will be one of them.
Posted on 7/17/20 at 10:21 am to jdd48
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Gorilla glue (not the wood variety) should hold damn near anything.
I'll try that too, so far, I've just used what I had laying around.
Posted on 7/17/20 at 2:01 pm to auggie
Are you putting some kind of spacer between the two picks?
It sounds like a possible new invention to me.
Posted on 7/17/20 at 2:22 pm to Mizz-SEC
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Are you putting some kind of spacer between the two picks? It sounds like a possible new invention to me.
Trying different things. The glue sort of acts as a spacer. Once I get something that works well, I can try other stuff. It may be something that can be marketed.
It would probably be simple to make it, in 1 piece if you had the right equipment.
This post was edited on 7/17/20 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 7/17/20 at 4:53 pm to auggie
Triplet Guitar Picks of Italy offered it in the 1960s and 1970s.
I vaguely remember there was a company in the 80s that made a plectrum that had 4-6 layered picks coming out of a grip maybe the size of a rounded off sugar cube. It was supposed to replicate multiple guitars, 12-string guitars, chorus pedals. It was a hodgepodge of marketing schpiel, ads in a couple successive issues of the guitar magazines, never to be seen again. I'm Googling and I can't find it, can't remember the name.
I vaguely remember there was a company in the 80s that made a plectrum that had 4-6 layered picks coming out of a grip maybe the size of a rounded off sugar cube. It was supposed to replicate multiple guitars, 12-string guitars, chorus pedals. It was a hodgepodge of marketing schpiel, ads in a couple successive issues of the guitar magazines, never to be seen again. I'm Googling and I can't find it, can't remember the name.
Posted on 7/17/20 at 4:57 pm to TheFretShack
Ah ha ... it was like this ...
Posted on 7/17/20 at 5:14 pm to TheFretShack
yeah, I'm trying to get something much thinner, that feels more like a regular pick. I don't want to say it really gives a double sound, but just slightly more resonance.
Posted on 7/17/20 at 8:40 pm to auggie
TwinPicks
Posted on 7/17/20 at 8:45 pm to auggie
You can have a few different ones made to your exact specs by someone who knows their way around a higher end 3D printer...once you have the design file, you can have them “printed” whenever you need.
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