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

    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.
    I am playing so much better now:-}, truth is, I cycle through a number of picks: Dunlops
    Wegens,my one and only Bluechip, Dawgs,etc.
    Every time I change picks I seem to play better, must be the pick:

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    There is a company called Tile that makes small hard plastic cards with a bluetooth transmitter you put in your wallet or keychain to help you find them when you lose them, maybe they ought to get into the high end mandolin pick business?

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    hoping to transport that kind of luck to my house, where my husband purchased a blue chip for his guitar and promptly lost it in our music room 19 months ago, give or take. sigh. Me, I keep mine in the strings of my Eastman so only see it on occasion-- but it's still there regardless!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Randi Gormley View Post
    hoping to transport that kind of luck to my house, where my husband purchased a blue chip for his guitar and promptly lost it in our music room 19 months ago, give or take. sigh. Me, I keep mine in the strings of my Eastman so only see it on occasion-- but it's still there regardless!
    Did you look inside the vacuum cleaner bag for your husbands pick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hudmister View Post
    Did you look inside the vacuum cleaner bag for your husbands pick.
    And if you haven't cleaned out your vacuum in 19 months, this might be a good excuse now.
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    What would you do for your Blue Chip Pick?

    https://youtu.be/LB23c_7nlS8

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    Quote Originally Posted by OlDanTucker View Post
    What would you do for your Blue Chip Pick?

    https://youtu.be/LB23c_7nlS8
    First of all, if I dropped a Kentucky km-1000 in a portajohn, I would have lost a Kentucky km-1000.

    Second, I have tried two Blue Chips, and although they are very nice, I just can't justify the cost. My ability and my finances simply ain't there. If you have one, hats off to you. They are a great pick. I'm just a celluloid triangle guy. $2.95 a dozen, I can lose them with a smile on my face.
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    Those clear V-Picks can be a nightmare. I've lost them when they hit right at my feet.
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    another example of my theoretical “inverse law of sunglasses retention”: the more a a pair of sunglasses cost the quicker they will be lost. With a cheap pair of sunglasses, they refuse to get lost. You can throw them off a bridge or into the ocean & the next morning they’ll be knocking on your front door

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roger Moss View Post
    First of all, if I dropped a Kentucky km-1000 in a portajohn, I would have lost a Kentucky km-1000.

    Second, I have tried two Blue Chips, and although they are very nice, I just can't justify the cost. My ability and my finances simply ain't there. If you have one, hats off to you. They are a great pick. I'm just a celluloid triangle guy. $2.95 a dozen, I can lose them with a smile on my face.
    Roger, you don't have to buy a Bluechip pick, I have found that Dunlop's Primetone rounded picks sound and feel very similar to Bluechip picks at a fraction of the cost.

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    Glad you found your pick!

    I had tried several Bluechip picks and never really loved them until I tried a rounded bevel(no speed bevel). Now I have a hard time switching to anything else....CT55 with rounded bevel is my jam. Happy pickin!

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    Quote Originally Posted by peterleyenaar View Post
    Roger, you don't have to buy a Bluechip pick, I have found that Dunlop's Primetone rounded picks sound and feel very similar to Bluechip picks at a fraction of the cost.
    Yes, I like Primetones, but don't care for the rounded points. I have used triangles since the seventies, and that's what I feel comfortable with. I do favor the 346 shape and have lots of them, too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by peterleyenaar View Post
    Roger, you don't have to buy a Bluechip pick, I have found that Dunlop's Primetone rounded picks sound and feel very similar to Bluechip picks at a fraction of the cost.
    My findings are different...

    Roger, you don't have to buy a Bluechip pick... but I have found that my Primetone picks are NOT very similar to my new BC in tone or feel even though they are the same shape and nearly the same thickness.

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    Yeah, not even close on my mandolins. I’ve got four, and I work for a living. I always know where two of them are because they’re under the strings of my mandolins.
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    There is a funny story the owner of Blue Chip tells about a customer who followed his dog around to ummm...”collect” the pick the pooch ate the day prior. Yes he got it back. I think he talked about it in a newspaper article a while back.
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    Quote Originally Posted by billykatzz View Post
    another example of my theoretical “inverse law of sunglasses retention”: the more a a pair of sunglasses cost the quicker they will be lost. With a cheap pair of sunglasses, they refuse to get lost. You can throw them off a bridge or into the ocean & the next morning they’ll be knocking on your front door
    Ha! Totally.

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    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.
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    Moved a bookcase that was attached to the wall, it was the only place the pick could have been. It had slide under the baseboard trim.

    I have also lost it in plain sight on a knotty pine desk. Took me forever to find it.

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    Glad you found it, i’ve had 4 over the last four years and they live in the strings so I never lose it. Like foldedpath said just develop a habit as to where you keep it and put it there every time so you don’t lose it.
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    Congrats on finding your BC!! I’ve thankfully never lost one, but I keep them in the strings of the instruments to which they belong when I’m not playing. I think I’m up to five now, in cases that house mandolins, a Mandocello, and guitars. When I’m in an environment conducive to pick loss, I use Ultex or Primetones. BUT, I agree that Primetones aren’t in the same league as BC, from a performance standpoint (or price standpoint, obviously). If not playing BC, Wegen TF-140 is my mandolin go-to, and on at least two of my mandolins, I prefer the Wegens...
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    I lost my go to CT55 in the house once. Drove me crazy for several weeks looking. I'm pretty compulsive about storing the pick under the strings....which I still think is the best habit you can adopt. Anyway, I found it about a year later when we were moving, behind a piece of furniture. Talk about feeling horrible...and then feeling so elated. Almost worth the ups and downs, in a sick kinda way !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by CES View Post
    BUT, I agree that Primetones aren’t in the same league as BC, from a performance standpoint (or price standpoint, obviously). If not playing BC, Wegen TF-140 is my mandolin go-to, and on at least two of my mandolins, I prefer the Wegens...
    Same here... I like my BC (CT55) and if I'm not using it my go to is the Wegen TF120, which is my fave for my Flat top.

    Back to the thread... I hope one day I find this horn I lost in the house somewhere. I've been searching for it since Christmas time!

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    Maybe we should super glue our picks to our fingers....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Ostrander View Post
    Maybe we should super glue our picks to our fingers....
    That would make certain hygenic functions a real adventure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by foldedpath View Post
    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.
    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...
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