Pick of the Week — Sweet Cyanide
This week’s Pick of the Week was created for a band called Sweet Cyanide. They are a 
band from NYC and are currently supporting their 2nd full length album release entitled, “Sweet Cyanide II.” Singles from the album include Bad Jesus and Solitary Son. They have played the main stage at the Rock n’ Rev festival in Sturgis South Dakota with Three Doors Down, Hinder, Guns N’ Roses and Alice in Chains. Throughout 2010 they’ve had the pleasure of opening for Halestorm, Bullet for My Valentine, Pop Evil and Extreme. Their guitar pick design was replicated [...]
Pick of the Week — Scarlet Fade
This week’s Pick of the Week is for a band called Scarlet Fade. They chose our red delrin
custom guitar picks, and we really loved the black graphic that they had for artwork. “What began as a group of teen musicians with a fresh, energetic sound has quickly taken the regional music scene by storm. The power behind Scarlet Fade comes from four siblings– Ali, Jordan, Jaimee, and Jake. Their rock/pop style has been influenced by bands like Switchfoot, NeedtoBreathe, The Elms, Flyleaf, and The Beatles.With a grass-roots local presence, [...]
Black and White
Sometimes, the simplistic designs are the ones that look the best when it comes to custom guitar picks. Shown in the image below are some great examples of simple but awesome designs that were submitted by our customers. These were all created on our white delrin picks. White delrin material is a really nice, bright white that looks great with colors, or with black-only designs like these. White delrin picks are available in standard guitar pick shape, and in three gauges including .80mm, 1.0mm and 1.26mm. To create a cool black and white design like the ones in the image, [...]
Pick of the Week — Eli
This week’s Pick of the Week was created for the performer/songwriter/producer/musician; Eli. In an excepert from his
website bio, we discovered that Eli “possesses the mettle of a rocker. He oozes charisma. Drawing on his Tennessee roots, Eli traded break beats for rock riffs and left behind his urban moniker, Smoov-E. Eli is a self-taught musician, fueled by his desire to create different sound scapes with live instruments. His innate ability to draw people in is evident in his popularity on social media websites. Eli’s YouTube videos have garnered 30,000 [...]
Cute Couples
Well, Valentine’s day has come and gone, but we wanted you to see some of the cute designs that we got from our customers! Custom picks with photos on them can make wonderful gifts. All of the picks shown in the image below were created on our white pearl material, which is often the best for photo designs. White pearl picks have a marbleized quality to them, which gives a classy look and also makes the images on them have a 3-D quality. These types of designs have been very popular lately, both for Valentines day and for wedding guitar [...]
Pick with Austin: A Non-Profit Charity Organization Giving the Gift of Music
Recently, Clayton USA, Inc. has had the opportunity to contribute to a wonderful charity organization called Pick with Austin. Pick with Austin is a nonprofit corporation that operates in the memory of Texas teen guitarist, Alan Carter Villaruz-Curley. The purpose of the organization is to help elevate a community awareness and to educate the people about a growing epidemic of youth depression and suicide. They use Alan’s Gift of Music to enhance this awareness while providing donated guitars to kids and teens in hospitals, in youth groups and ministries, and/or those whom have been identified in some way of being potentially “at [...]
Pick of the Week — On the Rocks
This week’s Pick of the Week is for a band called On the Rocks that
hails from Philadelphia, PA. The logo is awesome, and it was created on our white pearl picks, which really make the blue colors stand out, and they give a nice a 3-D effect.
On The Rocks (OTR) was originally started by John Morgera on guitar &
vocals, Brian Johnston on bass & vocals and Joe”no-shots” Rush on
guitar & vocals. Mike Drabick came aboard on drums soon after. The
foursome was together for a couple of years before bringing on Robin
as [...]
Pretty Pearls
We wanted to draw some attention to these very nice, classy-looking pick designs that we have received recently. The pick on the right is one of our white pearl picks, which is a marbleized, glossy finish pick. The design is very elegant, and was created for a wedding, so our pearl material was a perfect choice. The pick on the left is a colored pearl pick, created for a jewelry store. They were looking for a gold color pick, and [...]
