All acoustic guitar players know the struggle of getting guitar picks lost inside of your sound hole. Normally what you can do is turn your guitar upside down, so the sound hole is facing the ground, and shake your guitar until the pick falls out! Just be careful not to hit your guitar on anything (or hit yourself with the guitar… don’t ask)… Then of course comes the detective search for the pick if it has fallen out of sight.
This method can take anywhere between 5 seconds to 5 hours to prove effective (we exaggerate, but sometimes it does take longer than you may like). Alternatively, a less comical way to do this is to use the “pencil trick”! All you need is a pencil with an eraser on the other end.
Step 1: Shake your guitar with the sound hole facing up until you can see the pick through the sound hole.
Step 2: Use the back/eraser end of the pencil to pin down the errant pick to the back of the guitar
Step 3: turn the guitar so the sound hole is facing down towards the floor whilst holding the pick in place with the pencil. Once everything is in a stable position, simply pull the pencil away, and the pick will fall out through the sound hole without a struggle!
*Bonus Version of Step 2: If you have them on hand, affix a piece of sticky tape or BluTack to the end of the pencil, this way you can easily fish your pick out of the soundhole with no flipping required!
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