My habit involving guitar picks...

I chew on my pick as well. Not chomping, but I find myself putting in my lips to hold and tapping on it with my front teeth.

Also, even with the snack nibbling, I'm only on my 2nd pick that came with my acoustic guitar when I bought it in 2005. The first one has a split in it.

When I bought my electric (wifey actually, for this past Christmas) I got a bag of picks of various thickness, around 20 or so picks. They are the oblong shaped (for lack of a better description) instead of the 3 side symetrical shape of the original picks I have and I don't like them. Thus, I don't put them in my teeth...... I poke them up in my gums in front of my teeth and chase the kids around the house like I have fangs and I'm going to bite them :twisted:

Metal fingerpicks can make you look like Freddy Kruger, Jr. Or Mini-Wolverine.

I've been putting mine in my ear ever since reading an online "be a guitar god in 10 days" tutorial suggested it as an effective method for developing ear-hand co-ordination.

Picking a guitar with a pick in your ear would make a crowd go wilder than Jimi's doing it with his teeth.

Wow I've turned a defect into a feature, just like Windows.

It just stays strapped to my arm, sometimes I forget it's there. I usually keep a couple on me and one in each gig bag.

Jack

I remember when you were experimenting and had that pick stuck in an apple!

Rico I think that must have been that young man you were working with. Mine have always been mechanical in nature, cause that's my nature. :lol:
An apple would be good to put in your mouth though. Maybe not after beating it on the strings for an entire set.

Jack

You're right. I just about forgot I know TWO one armed guitarists! :D

i sometimes stick them to my forehead like a bindi. i did that once at a gig and people started laughing. it didn't even occur to me that i was doing something weird, it was just a habit.

i sometimes stick them to my forehead like a bindi. i did that once at a gig and people started laughing. it didn't even occur to me that i was doing something weird, it was just a habit.

Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick often stuck a pick to his cheek (as a tear) during the "...hear you crying" line in "I Want You To Want Me"

And I saw one concert recording where he tossed a pick in the air after a solo and caught it in his mouth.

I put it into my lips sometimes if I'm working on something and playing, like recording or looking at a book, etc. I sometimes I get really focussed and start looking for it and other times have played something with a pick and then put it into the familiar lips position only to discover the previous one I put there. :roll:

I prefer mine with milk and a bit of sugar