Stone Guitar Picks!, Handmade by Denise Options

[Denise]

Thanks Jim! That sepecimen set did turn out incredible!
We work really hard at making sure we have nice items listed in the Miners Market for everyone.

Remember, most of these picks are for sale in the Miners Market and sales help keep the site open for everyone to learn and enjoy. So If you know of someone who wants a stone guitar pick, you know where to send them.

Thanks for all your support.

[Denise]

Here is a really cool Arizona agate guitar pick that measures at 1.48 mm.(thin)
While working this one, a bit of gold appeared on the right side of it.
Shame though, by the time I finished working it the gold was gone.
Either way, this one turned out nice! I love the patterns in it!

[Denise]

Here is another Arizona agate, but this one is a bit different looking. It measures 1.37mm(thin)
It also has a nice little druzy hole that goes all the way through it.



Thanks for looking.

[CP]

Nice one's Denise! Love the deep rich golden colors in both the last two pictured. Getting a really nice polish on those too, WOW!

Here's another pick she recently completed from a very thin slice of green Wyoming jade. The slice was cut at 0.95 mm and after she was finished working it through to polish, it now measure 0.85 mm. Excellent work honey! That is a very rare "ultra thin" stone guitar pick.





This pick isn't quite as thin but is still only about 1.4 mm and is a very nice thin range pick. Also green jade from Wyoming.



Check out the Miners Market for the newest listed stone guitar picks in all the thickness ranges.

[Denise]

Thanks Dan. You make it possible with the nice thin slabing you do.
The Jade is fantastic stuff to work with, and I love the sound the picks make.

We make a fantastic team!

[Denise]

Here was a little experiment I did with a thin piece of Colorado bytroidal Agate that had a bit of matrix with it.
Amazing how cool an agate can look with even the simplest of inclusions. This one measures about 2.9 mm.

Let me know what you think. I can always use the feedback.

[swizz]

really nice
I especially like the translucent 'clouds/cottony/pillow' effect toward the bottom. If you could do a whole pic with that I might have to learn guitar.

[Denise]

Thanks alot Chris. Funny you should say that, because Dan happens to be working on cutting more that will have that very thing. Better start guitar shopping now!

I made one for myself on page 4 or 5 of this thread, that also looked like that due to the bytroidal. Very nice dark brown agate, with moving shadows in the bubbles when you turn it. Hard stuff to get pics of!

Speaking of such.......Dan picknapped my latest guitar pick for himself and is trying to get pics of it right now. Iris Agate that when sliced thin will display all the colors of the spectrum, and this one sure does.

Good luck CP, guess thats the price you have to pay for keeping that sweet pick!
Come on Dan We all want to see pictures of those rainbows dont we?

[swizz]

Better start guitar shopping now!
Dan picknapped my latest guitar pick.....

"picknapped"!

I'm shopping for that guitar now. So far, I can only afford this fixer-upper:

[CP]

Speaking of such.......Dan picknapped my latest guitar pick for himself and is trying to get pics of it right now. Iris Agate that when sliced thin will display all the colors of the spectrum, and this one sure does.

Good luck CP, guess thats the price you have to pay for keeping that sweet pick!
Come on Dan We all want to see pictures of those rainbows dont we?

Picknapped is right, it's one sweet flasher!!
Ok, I tried and after many pictures taken, here are a couple that showed a few of the rainbow colors, but these pictures still don't catch the level or spread of color in hand.
Dang, that woman is makin' me work on Saturday again.

These pictures are viewed best for color if you lean way down and put your chin on the space bar I'm not kidding, just try it, lean down low and look upward at the screen......careful not to drool in the keyboard while you try this. It does work.



Another view just moved a little showing a whole different color scheme.



I'll be doing some more experiements with lighting to see if I can catch more of the color flash. Iris agate iridescence is really tough to catch in photos.....and I've added it to my list of pain in the neck to get pics of just below opals and fire agates.

Swizz, that guitar is a definate "fixer upper" kinda project.

[jim]

WOW!!! That rainbow effect is killer. Great job on the pick too.

[swizz]

Great pick AND pic!

[Denise]

Good job Dan! Those pictures turned out great.

Too funny Swizz! Depending on who smashed it, it might be worth leaving as is.

[Denise]

Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles .........Love those bubbles.

You can see shadows in them when held up to the light and moved. Almost looks like water flowing around in the pick when held up and moved. These picks are some of my favorite, and comes from Colorado. I almost thought I wasnt going to get a pick from the small slab it was. It also had a spot where the bubbles met causing bubble clevage in the slice. Usually not a good thing when making a guitar pick, but I used my creativity to get it done. I decided to make it my version of a heart stone guitar pick, with the natural bubble clevage (only on the one side) being placed just right to make the heart. I think it turned out pretty darn nice myself. If turned upside down, the cleavage looks like a whales tail underwater. Ok, somedays Im using my creativity way to much right?

Here are two pictures showing the heart shape and the bubbles inside. Pick is 1.5 mm.
In the upper left corner of the second picture, you can almost see how the bubbles were really tiny.

[Denise]

I finished another of the bubbly agate picks with shadows, but I havent took a picture of it yet. Here is a really nice Wyoming Jade (green) pick. It measures 1.4 mm. in thickness.






This is a really cool one. It seems to be a very hard piece of brownish orange Chalcedony. It measures 2.1 mm. in thickness.



Here is a picture of it held up to the sunlight.



Almost looks like a man passing a woman in a big dress some flowers.