Found my Bluechip pick after about 3 months M.I.A

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I don't drive but I'm overboard OC about my wallet and house keys. I don't know that I want to be that way about a pick...

There is an obvious solution to that, but I'll spell it out anyway. Keep your BC pick in your wallet.

I realize I'm also tempting fate with that earlier comment about knowing where my car keys are, since I hit 65 this summer.

[Louise NM]

I wonder if it had been inside a book or magazine, and had just fallen out recently.

[Br1ck]

It's not that hard to hang on to a BC pick. You just learn to develop a fixed routine where you always know where your BC pick is. Doesn't matter what the routine is, as long as it's repeated every day.

I've had the same two BC picks for a few years now. Only lost one, years ago when I was still stupid about it, and loaned it out during a jam. I don't do that any more.

Do you often lose your car keys? A BC pick is smaller, but it's the same idea. Develop a routine, just like knowing where your car keys are every day. You won't lose it.

This only works for so long, then you get to a certain age, your fly gets left open, you walk into a room to look for something and can't remember what. You go to the store for three things and have to call home for one of them, and most recently after four decades of habitually latching at least three latches of a case, not latching any of them.

I do hang onto my BC pick though. So far.

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This only works for so long, then you get to a certain age, your fly gets left open, you walk into a room to look for something and can't remember what. You go to the store for three things and have to call home for one of them, and most recently after four decades of habitually latching at least three latches of a case, not latching any of them.

I do hang onto my BC pick though. So far.

Yeah, like I said a couple of posts above, I'm tempting fate with the car keys comment as I advance into geezerdom. I'm noticing a few lapses here and there, but I'm not at the wandering around with fly unzipped stage yet.

I like to think that attempting to memorize and recall a large repertoire of Irish/Scottish trad tunes is a good exercise for retaining brain function, but it's probably just wishful thinking. I'll be that guy wandering around whistling 100 trad tunes at the age of 80, wandering around with my fly unzipped.

[Jess L.]

Maybe we should super glue our picks to our fingers....

That would make certain hygenic functions a real adventure.

And typing. Touch-typing would no longer be an easy thing. Might have to invent a new keyboard with extra-large keys, or something.

[Jess L.]

... you get to a certain age, your fly gets left open, you walk into a room to look for something and can't remember what. You go to the store for three things and have to call home for one of them, ...

I'm too literal-minded... I envisioned someone doing *all* of those things on the same day, with the fly open the entire time.

[Jess L.]

Where's that thread from a couple years ago where someone posted various pictures of a flatpick hidden on a rug or other surface, and the challenge for the rest of us was to try to find where it was hidden in the picture?

I tried Google, must not be using the right search terms... I can't remember the exact name of the thread. I tried searching for:

find hidden pick
find missing pick
find blue chip
etc

Maybe someone remembers that thread and can find it? As I recall, it was kinda fun.

[Bertram Henze]

There is an obvious solution to that, but I'll spell it out anyway. Keep your BC pick in your wallet.

...causing the pick to get lost anyway and taking the wallet with it. No way around the Riches Repellant Rule.

[peterleyenaar]

I play mostly with the Bluechip (now that I found it) and the wegens, sometimes the Dunlop, the rest
and many more, just gathered over the years.

[lflngpicker]

I am amazed at the tone and the feel of my new CT55. I am a big fan of V Picks-- my favorite is the blue SAGA mandolin pick (triangle, rounded bevel 1.5 mm). I thought the V Picks were hard to drop! I have played the CT55 for two weeks and it never leaves my hand during my practice sessions. I keep in under the strings at the 4th fret. Glad you found yours! Thanks for the smile this thread brought.

[Hudmister]

I always put my CT55 away in its special case when I'm not using it.

[peterleyenaar]

I always put my CT55 away in its special case when I'm not using it.

I wonder if they could make a mandolin case with a case like yours attached, kinda like a mandolin/violin case.

[Bill McCall]

Unbelievable!, found my Bluechip TPR45 after missing it for about 3 months.
looked everywhere , all over the house on hands and knees, pulled all the cushions from
the couch and chairs, thinking I left it at a jam,did the dogs ate it ?, there it was, as I was having my morning coffee with my 2 dogs on the couch, my eye caught something shiny
on the persian rug, a bluechip pick.
How this is possible , I shall never know, as I vacuum that rug at least twice a week, anyway it was like finding $40.
........:

So, can come over and find mine

[sblock]

Gee, I wonder why haven't Hoffee or Calton produced carbon-fiber or fiberglass flight cases specifically for BlueChip picks by now?!


Maybe we should start a Kickstarter campaign to develop and manufacture the PickVault, consisting of a bulletproof, waterproof pick case, equipped with a high-tech security closure that's opened only with your personal biometric, with integrated Bluetooth/WiFi capability? You would attach a tiny RF tag to your pick (or get the BlueChip folks to embed it at purchase time, at the same time they do the custom engraving of your initials). You purchase a PickVault and then pair it with your pick (or picks) during installation. Thereafter, if your BlueChip equipped with the RF tag is not replaced inside the PickVault after you're done playing, a warning alarm is sounded. And ditto, if the pick is ever moved too far away from the Pick Vault. You could also use the "Find My Pick" app on your smartphone (with a small monthly subscription fee), which would come free with every purchase of the PickVault.

I smell a business opportunity! We can disrupt the entire market!! Who wants to invest?

P.S. We can also sell data on every place that your pick has been with you. And from the timing information on your pickstrokes, our algorithms will be able to determine the name of every tune you've played. And how good a player you are. And our predictive AI will soon be able to tell when you next suffer from MAS.

[peterleyenaar]

I kinda think the Bluechip company is not toooo unhappy with people loosing their bluechip picks, otherwise they'd have white ones like the Wegens

[Roger Moss]

I kinda think the Bluechip company is not toooo unhappy with people loosing their bluechip picks, otherwise they'd have white ones like the Wegens

At least they're not going the V - Pick route...

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The way things are going, I expect to see BC picks offered with embedded RFID chips in a few years, so they're easier to find with an app on your smartphone.

[peterleyenaar]

I wonder if it had been inside a book or magazine, and had just fallen out recently.

You are probably right, I usually have some music books laying around, sometimes the dogs need quick attention and I don't have time to store the pick in the strings as I normally do and I quickly put the mandolin and pick on the coffee table, from there it could have
ended up in a book and luckily fell on the rug where I saw it.(I guess one has to look where it is

[Roger Moss]

Some people say "It's always the last place you look." I guess that's true. Only a few OC sufferers keep looking after they find it.

[Jess L.]

Some people say "It's always the last place you look." I guess that's true. Only a few OC sufferers keep looking after they find it.

Yeah except they're saying it wrong. I've always heard, "It's always the last place you'd think to look." That little detail makes a big difference in the meaning.

[Roger Moss]

Yeah except they're saying it wrong. I've always heard, "It's always the last place you'd think to look." That little detail makes a big difference in the meaning.

"They" say it a lot of different ways. "You" heard it one way. "I" heard it another.

[Jess L.]

"They" say it a lot of different ways. "You" heard it one way. "I" heard it another.

True that common sayings often get warped out of shape over time, such that they no longer make sense when read literally. Your earlier comment about someone continuing to look even after the item was found, would seem to indicate that you too thought that a literal interpretation of the phrase didn't make sense. My point was simply agreeing with you about that, and giving an earlier version of the phrase where it *did* make sense.

[Roger Moss]

True that common sayings often get warped out of shape over time, such that they no longer make sense when read literally. Your earlier comment about someone continuing to look even after the item was found, would seem to indicate that you too thought that a literal interpretation of the phrase didn't make sense. My point was simply agreeing with you about that, and giving an earlier version of the phrase where it *did* make sense.

Point tsken. Thanks for not flaming me oover it.

[Lane Pryce]

I found one in the mail yesterday. How lucky is that? Lp

[Bertram Henze]

Yeah except they're saying it wrong. I've always heard, "It's always the last place you'd think to look." That little detail makes a big difference in the meaning.

Not much difference in my case. I don't make a plan for the search. When I lose something...

#1 I think about where to look for it next.
#2 I don't find it there
#3 go to #1