If there were a few brightly colored 'clown barf' thick rounded Wankel triangle picks, to be found .
I 'd go for a dozen or 2 .. a lot easier to find when you drop them, than Mock Tortoise.
If there were a few brightly colored 'clown barf' thick rounded Wankel triangle picks, to be found .
I 'd go for a dozen or 2 .. a lot easier to find when you drop them, than Mock Tortoise.
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At the risk of showing my age - and revealing a bit about my time spent digging ditches as a strapping teenager - the correct name of the tool depicted is indeed "Pick Mattock". I expect you knew that. Been around for a couple of hundred years. Great tool by the way. I have one out in the barn. Oh, and there ain't much "matic" about it either. You'll be reachin' for the liniment at the end of the day.
Last edited by Rob Gerety; Jul-25-2011 at 8:46pm.
Rob G.
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Well, yes, of course ... but the truth just drains all the humor out of the joke ... My dad had one of these when I was a kid, and it sure was just the thing for breaking ground. I used to wonder why it was called a pickmatic until I read a book in which a worker used a mattock - and a light bulb lit in my brain. In case you young whippersnappers don't know what we old fogeys are yammering about, a pick-mattock combines the two tools, with a pick on one side and a mattock blade on the other.
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Weird, everybody in my family calls it 'a mattocks', as in 'bring over a shovel and a mattocks'. Is that a dialect thing?
Rob G.
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That's OK. I'm sure we're edumacatin' some people with (or in spite of) all our tomfoolery.
Speaking of which - People! Please don't use one of these on your mandolin! This is a heavy earthworking tool. For a delicate instrument, use a lighter tool, like a mountaineer's pick:
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How long does one get out of a blue? No thought of loss, just wear.
A pick that is easy to find in a store or on the floor. I have used Fender 351 picks medium & heavy and similarly shaped Dunlops since the mid 70s. That shape is what I am used to and though I've tried many other shapes it's what I come back to. Bright colors are what I like, Looking for a brown pic on a brown floor in low light is frustrating to say the least. Clown puke, yellow and orange are the way to go.
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