Sleipner Wood Guitar Picks
Guitar / bass players often get caught up in expensive gear such as amps, effects, and guitars, and tend to forget that something as simple as a pick is just as important to your gear, your playing, your sound, the string attack and your sonic landscape.

But not all picks are simple, as you can experience if you try one or a couple of hand-crafted wooden picks made by Sleipner Guitars.

When you first play with one of these picks it feels kind of strange because they are so thick compared to standard plastic picks. It does not take long to get used to them though and before you know it, you will feel completely at ease using them.

The first thing you will notice is that these wooden picks have a really different string attack and cause a much stronger string resonance when used traditionally. The attack is less pronounced at first, kind of softer, but due to the more rigid nature of the wood they'll provide a deeper more bass heavy tone from your strings. You can use them with electrics, acoustics and acoustic electrics, all with similar results.

All players who try these picks believe that the various woods will sound pretty much the same, but that's not the case. When an on-line guitar publication tested three different wood picks, the tester was quite stunned from the test results, I quote: "I was completely shocked to find that each pick sounded unique in it's own way. It was like having the sound qualities of three completely different guitars. These picks actually changed the tonal characteristics of the guitars sound". The tests was performed on a acoustic guitar.

You get the same results with electric guitars. The tonal qualities are there although not quite a prominent as they are on the acoustic. This depends on the effects that are used on the electric guitar. They may have had a tendency to cover some of the dynamic qualities of the picks.

We make wood guitar picks from Lignum Vitae, Pink Ivory, Ebony, Macassar Ebony, African Blackwood, Snakewood, Desert Ironwood, Bocote, Kingwood, Tulipwood, Cocobolo, Ziricote, Pau Rosa, Leadwood, Vamboana Rosewood and some other one-off woods.

We don't have all the woods picks in stock all the time, since we now and then run out of wood from certain species. and most of the woods are quite expensive and hard get from time to time. On the next page you'll see what we have in stock at the moment.

All Sleipner wood guitar picks are made by hand, and involves many steps before there is a polished and finished pick. There is also a lot of wood spills and offcuts due to cracks and defects in the woods. Most steps are very time consuming, which is reflected in the final price for the finished product.