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SAMULI TUOMAS MÄKELÄ
Products used: Clayton custom printed White Delrin picks – Standard shape, 1mm gauge and Clayton custom printed Black Celluloid picks – Standard shape, 1.00mm gauge
“For me standard shape and 1mm gauge are the best choice. I love 1mm Delrin because it’s a very durable and great for the way I’m playing.
1mm Celluloid picks I’m using when I need little more flexibility for the playing. If you want hard and heavy…get Delrin…If more soft and sweet…get Celluloid.”
Samuli Tuomas Mäkelä is a Finnish autodidact guitarist and composer. He has background in metal, but as a musician, he is [...]
Savannah Lynne
Products used: Clayton Custom picks
“With over 80 gigs the past year alone, the last thing I want to worry about is my pick breaking. I love how strong Clayton Picks are and it’s one less thing I have to think about when I go on stage…”
Savannah Lynne grew up on the beautiful Hawaiian Islands of Maui and Kauai. Her love of country music brought her from Hawaii to Los Angeles and onward to Nashville, TN. At the young age of only 14, Savannah Lynne has played at such iconic venues as The Whiskey, The House of Blues, and [...]
We Came As Romans
Products used: custom White Delrin Standard 1.00mm, custom Green Delrin Standard 0.88mm
“My guitar picks rule! There’s not a better feeling than playing my bass and knowing I have a custom BUTT logo on my pick!” – Andy “Butt Jaw” Glass uses custom White Delrin Standard 1.00mm.
“Steve Clayton Picks are amazing, they made them exactly how i like them. I couldn’t be happier.” – Lou Cotton uses custom White Delrin Standard 1.00mm.
“I love my guitar picks! It’s awesome to be able to personalize something I can use every day and give to fans!” – Joshua Moore uses custom [...]
Travis Bettis of Lee Brice Band
Products used:
Acetal 1.00mm, standard
“These picks have balls. I play thick strings, loud and hard. No more broken picks circling my pedal board after a 90 minute set…..lol”
Travis Bettis grew up in the overlooked rock and roll / blues music scene of Houston, TX. He sat in open mic blues jams with his father, Big Al Bettis, at one of Houston’s best kept little secrets, Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar. At an early age he got the bug to play electric guitar and by the time 18 hit, he was off to Nashville. After a few years [...]
Tim Foreman of Switchfoot
Tim Foreman plays bass for Switchfoot, a 5-piece rock band from San Diego. The band originally formed as a trio in 1996, and they cut their teeth playing sweaty rock shows in every rock club across the US. The band released 3 indie records prior to their better known major-label releases, “the Beautiful Letdown” and “Nothing is Sound,” which have combined to sell 3.5 million records with hits such as “Meant To Live”, “Dare You To Move”, “Stars”, and “One Tonight”. Tim began playing bass at age 11, in a Led Zeppelin cover band with his brother Jon. In addition [...]
Willy Braun of Reckless Kelly
Products used: Acetal Standard 1.00mm.
“I’ve been using Steve Clayton picks for years. they’re durable, they’re easy to hang on to, they look cool and they sail well when I toss em’ at the crowd! I once had a sound man tell me that my pick hit him in the chest from over 100 feet away. Try doing that with a cheesy light pick!”
For fifteen years Reckless Kelly has been doing things their way, bucking the mainstream system and playing by their own rules, straddling the fence between country and rock as if they built it themselves. Throughout the [...]
The Day After
Products used:
Clayton Playboy Bunny logo Medium thick Picks. (Black)
“The Playboy Bunny Picks have the best grip in a sweaty situation, if you know what I mean”
Forming in the summer of 2008, the aggressive pop band, The Day After, has prided themselves as a hard-working DIY outfit from day one. The five-piece has worked with Indianapolis’ All-ages Punk powerhouse, Piradical Productions, from the very start and owes all the thanks in the world to Piradical, The Emerson Theater, The Vessel Studio, McWoah’s Studio and Productions, and most importantly the local scene of bands, venues and fans that [...]
Sparzanza
Products used:
Johan Carlsson – Bass – acetal standard format custom pick 0,80
Magnus Eronen – Guitar – acetal standard format custom pick 1,0
Calle Johannesson – Guitar – acetal rounded triangle custom pick 1,26
“Easy to order your own custom made pick and the best quality we ever tried. we wanted the best, and we got it from Clayton.”
The title of the upcoming SPARZANZA album is “Circle“
A symbol that often represents aspects of time, life, secret societies, barriers you might shelter within or hidden borders that protects you from good or bad. Sometimes [...]