...in your home or where you have your guitars, how many picks do you have there total?
Different kinds doesn't matter, count them all together, but don't actually count them, just take a guess and put down a number.
Thank you and I'll talk about why I'm asking a little later.
The why:
So why ask how many picks someone has? Well, I was hitting the guitar forum circuit the other night and I ran across a question from someone about picks. The person didn’t have many posts on the site, and he asked several questions within the one post about picks. Questions about thickness; your favorite kind; what you have tried; why you use what you do and so on. I use different picks a lot and found that different materials give different me results on different guitars, different genres of music, and when plugging in direct to my interface to record or using a mic or both and mixing it.
I like things neat, orderly, and consolidated to a space. So, I posted pictures of my two boxes of picks that show how I keep track of them. I pull picks from the boxes and put them in an ashtray that sits on my desk. V-Picks I switch back and forth because they don’t wear out. Regular picks I replace as I wear them out or they break. I didn’t think the number was obnoxious or strange. I didn’t type saying you must use this brand and/or thickness to get this or that.
The next day one of the administrators for the forum posted how my obscene the number of picks I had was. He said hearing a difference in the sound of what was being played was not affected by someone’s choice of picks. How if he can’t get something to sound right it’s him and not the pick causing the problem. Perhaps I am nuts but, when I play/record something and it all sounds right with the exception of this ticking piece of plastic against the strings and I can remove it by changing a pick material, I do it. There are times I want to hear the pick attack and there are times I do not. I don’t blame the pick, I just try a different material. I can get additional/different sounds by changing from a .38 mm plastic pick to a 4 mm acrylic pick. Not to mention other materials. I find it interesting and fun.
The majority of picks I have acquired over my playing lifetime. I just thought that was a normal thing.
So, it made me curious about how many picks other players have laying around. I did count all the picks I had in the photos and it came to 305.
That’s it. That’s why I was curious about how picks people have. I appreciate everyone’s input and comments. Thank you.
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sabasgr68
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Easy: 3 picks.
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Tonray's Ghost
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I keep one under the strings on each guitar and have an old camera film canister with about 20 more somewhere in the house
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Tonray's Ghost
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In the dryer twilight zone, for all we know there's a pick filled with missing socks!Tonray's Ghost wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:35 pmSomewhere in your dryer is a missing sock filled with picks
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One in the strings of every guitar, 10 backups in a small tin canister on the end table in the living room, and the remains of 3 72-packs (bought years ago) of Dunlop Tortex and Gator Grip 1.14mm and Tortex 1.0mm triangle bass picks in a drawer in the foyer where I keep my cased guitars and bass amps.
About a dozen, and use 1
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That's like asking me how many hairballs are hiding around the house under the sofa, chairs, beds and tables, behind cabinets, and God knows where else. Let's just say in the case of both picks and hairballs, "There's a lot." 
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When my family was getting ready to move (my parents retired when I finished high school), I found 42 picks under my bed. I assume there were more elsewhere.
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There are a few packs in my gig bag and a few lying here and there. There are usually a couple on the shelf in the laundry room.
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Post by mikesr1963 » Fri Jul 17, 2020 10:40 pm
...in your home or where you have your guitars, how many picks do you have there total?
Different kinds doesn't matter, count them all together, but don't actually count them, just take a guess and put down a number.
Oh, ok. I have two or three straight picks & a few dozen thumb picks.mikesr1963 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:59 amQuestion, tell me...
Post by mikesr1963 » Fri Jul 17, 2020 10:40 pm
...in your home or where you have your guitars, how many picks do you have there total?
Different kinds doesn't matter, count them all together, but don't actually count them, just take a guess and put down a number.
Gandalf the Intonationer