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The TD is a standard teardrop shape pick with two rounded corners and one sharper playing corner. This is a TD in a 40/1000 of an inch(1.00mm) thickness. All of our picks a professionally machined, hand beveled, and laser etched.
Quarters, Nickels and Dimes, if included in the pictures, are for size reference only. They are not etched on the picks or included with the sale. To use this reference, please place a coin on your current non-Bluechip pick and then compare to the pictures of our picks with coins on top of them. This will help you choose the pick that is closest to your current favorite size and shape.
Product Reviews
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TD-45 custom
Posted by DesertTwang on 26th May 2015
Feeling stuck between the TD-40, which I love for its bright, snappy sound, and the TD-50, which I love for its better control, I asked the guys at BC if they'd make me a TD-45, and they did! It turned out to be the exact pick I've always looked for. Fantastic!
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No friction pick
Posted by Keith F. on 21st May 2015
It is remarkable that this pick does not hang up on the guitar strings like other picks seem to do. Also, the pick does not turn in my fingers. I am very careful with this pick - I don't want to lose it.
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Just wasn't my thing, but. . .
Posted by Greg on 17th May 2015
I was able to return this one plus two others for a full refund + the shipping. Very cool to deal with.
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Honest Review of the TD-40
Posted by M. Caleb Thomas on 6th Feb 2015
The big question: is the change in playability worth the expense?
In first holding the pick, I couldn't help but feel disapointed. Expecting some magic adhesion to my fingers, it simply just felt like a pick
To my surprise, within a few seconds of feeling the material, I felt the "tacky stickiness" that many have written about, but that hardly describes it. It feels organic, like a part of your body that's always been there, especially after its warmed up
The pick is beveled right to that perfectly worn-in sweet spot and polished so buttery smooth that it glides through the strings from soft melodic picking all the way to chord thrashing rhythms with no scrape noise
The pick brings out a more open and warm tone from the guitar whereas a conventional plastic pick sounds like it's played through a tin can in comparison. The material feels as if it absorbs the audible click that conventional plastic picks make, but lets the strings richly ring out.
The combination of all the factors leads to a comfortable play that truly makes you forget the pick is even there. Playing is effortless and it brings out the best sound qualities from the instrument. In the end, I got lost in playing and didn't want to put it down.
After I'd played for some time, I decided to give my old picks a try and they just left a bad taste in my mouth. They feel cheap and awkward to hold compared to the BlueChip, and the pick noise felt terrible.
The combination of playability and sound quality that the BlueChip brings to the table is enough to justify the material's expense for the discerning musician. The fact that the material is known to take heavy use with little-to no-wear just sweetens the deal.
Best pick I've ever used. Thank you.
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Really excellent.
Posted by DocRock on 15th Jan 2015
Fast, accurate, and nice-sounding. Great clarity without the "clack" or the icepick that some other materials can produce. Never had a real tortoise shell, but I have tried other picks made of other materials. This is the best I've found so far. Wear is pretty slow, too. I don't think it's quite as slow as some say, but then technique, attack, and genre of music matter. I'm gigging in a balls-out rock band, and I'm the only guitarist. I'm not overly hamfisted, but I would call myself gentle, either. I'd say I got a solid year out of one pick before I could really notice significant wear ... and even then, it's still totally playable and useable. I really dig this pick, and have bought 3 of them so far. I settled on this model after having tried a few other offerings from them. I like this one best, and I appreciate the no-hassle exchange policy they have. Good stuff. Expensive, yes. But totally worth it, in my opinion. I'd buy more if they cost less, though, that's for sure.
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Most Likely The Best Pick I Will Ever Find
Posted by Daniel on 31st Dec 2014
This is without a doubt the best pick I have ever used and most likely the best pick I will ever find. The sound that it helps produce is so much better than with other picks I have used or tried. I have never used real tortoise shell but I can't imagine that it would be any better, and you don't have to constantly maintain the Blue Chip as you would a tortoise shell pick. A big factor in my delight with this pick is the way it sticks in your fingers but slides so very well off of the strings. I have always had a problem with other picks spinning in my fingers as I played but with the Blue Chip, I don't experience that. I would one day like to try a TP, that may be the only reason I might switch from or use another pick.
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Great picks
Posted by Richard on 11th Dec 2014
To put it simply, I love these picks. I've been using the TD40 on my Martin dreadnaught and the sound, the feel and the durability are first class. Expensive but for me worth the $ for a pick that will presumably last for years. I've been using the TD40 for many months now and there is not a sign of degradation.
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TD 40....
Posted by JM on 9th Oct 2014
Great pick that is worth the money. As someone once said to me, "If you are going to play an expensive instrument, why wouldn't you use the best pick to get the best possible sound out of your instrument?"
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The first strum was like WOW! I'm sold!
Posted by Vintage American Male on 8th Sep 2014
Being a guitar player for 40 years I've tried nearly every pick there is, with the exception of tortoise, only because I've never had the opportunity to own one. As I purchased my very first Martin guitar a few months ago, and love playing this guitar so much I decided to look into perfecting my picking techniques.
I viewed the videos on youtube and read thousands of forum posts about which pick is best, longest lasting, etc. Consistently there were 2-3 name brands that always popped up and BlueChip was one of them. So I did a little more research and find such favorable reviews I decided to give one a try.
Yeah the price was an issue somewhat, I don't think I ever paid more than a buck for a pick my entire life. But curiosity got the best of me and I figured what the heck, a buck forty years ago is about equivalent to $35 today, so the price isn't such an issue anymore.
Having always used a thin pick, I decided to try a medium BlueChip pick. When it arrived, which was within days of ordering, I grabbed the guitar and gave a good strum on the E chord. OMG! I couldn't believe this was my guitar. The warmth of the tone was so noticeable and the lack of clicking noise as well. I continued to play pick and was amazed at how well this pick felt and played. It was a natural for me. I have become a better player due to this pick! It seems to slide over the strings effortlessly, making you faster and more accurate.
There is definitely no other pick I am interested in using. This is my pick for life and I intend to try a few of the other styles in the future. Try one, you won't be disappointed!
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Excellent for eletric too!
Posted by T. Augur Beer on 4th Sep 2014
I have a small collection of real tortise shell - inherited from my grandmother. They are better than any new produciton pick and I am a pick nut and am always trying new picks. The blue Chip TD 40 I got is better. In two ways its superior, 1) Its about 10% better in tone and feel than real tortise which is itself 15% better than all other picks. 2) And this is big!!! Blue Chips don't wear! Tortise wears really quickly and requires constant sanding and polishing. And for all intents and purposes there's no point in using tortise because you can never find more. Now I must live with the constant fear of losing it!!! The price is more than fair when compared to tortise pricks and in comparison to what you spend in a year on regular picks.