I Heart Guitar did an interview with Kevin Grover of Grover Allman Picks. Check out this excerpt then read the whole interview:
When did you start the company?
The company started in 1990, there were no Australian made guitar picks back then. We invested a small amount of money and had an amazing response from our Australian retailers, as they say – the rest is history. Grover Allman now exports to over 25 countries and has sold in excess of 30 million guitar picks.
Do you remember your very first pick? I still have mine, and it makes me all nostalgic to drag it out and think about all the bad notes I must have played with it…
I do remember my first guitar pick; it came from one of our current competitors, however I don’t have it anymore. It was a brown medium celluloid.
The first guitar pick that our company made I still have. We made a small test production run to trial our tooling and the picks are now kept in a big glass jar. They were .85mm white nylons. We still sell them today as our performer series. Every time I look at the jar I reflect upon where it all started and where we are today.
Who are some of your star clients?
We have a lot of star clients on our books now. Please forgive me if I have left your band off my list as there are so many, there is no order of importance here, just what came to my head – Motley Crue, Bleeding Through, Klaxons, Extreme, Silverchair, Nuno Bettencourt, Nick Sterling, Suicide Silence, Living End, Cannibal Corpse, Slash, Joe Robinson, Bring Me The Horizon, Rammstein and many more.
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>It’s currently Spring Break time and summer is coming up fast. Are you going on a cruise any time soon and hoping to get a little picking in while on vacation? The Acoustic Guitar Forum has a thread discussing tips on taking your guitar along with you on the cruise ship. I’d say the most important tip boils down to keeping your guitar with you during the orientation/emarbarkation time and not leaving it with the rest of your luggage that may just be left outside your door. Consider your guitar your carry on. Other than that you should have no worries and plenty of time and great settings to practice.
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Strat-o-Blogster brought our attention to this great photograph. Apparently the picture you see is the result of taking two pictures: one with the guitar, and one without. The outline of the guitar is traced with a “pen light” and then the guitar itself is removed from the picture. Check it out
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The interesting and intriguing picture above is of a guitar made from a cigar box by Daddy Mojo. You can check out their site to learn more about cigar box guitars and even purchase some. You even get your choice of cigar boxes to use for your own custom guitar. Here’s an excerpt from their site:
“Skeptics be warned: a Daddy Mojo Cigar Box Guitar is all you need for super fat authentic slide work. Tune it how you want — we ship most of ours tuned in open G, but you can try E5 or open D for a great Delta Blues vibe or perhaps G6 or C6 for a more laid back Hawaiian feel. There are just loads of variations! Experiment! On a cigar box guitar your technique gets stripped down to a bare-bones simple approach for both chord and melody work, reminding us of the fat sounds of the olden days.”
The guitars were originally built in poor rural parts of the country who didn’t have access to the money or tools required to build a high quality guitar. To this day it remains a cottage industry that only a select few know about. For a cheaper selection of cigar box guitars and also a few instructional videos check out Blues Boy Jag’s cigar box guitar site.
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