What Do You keep Your Picks and Tuning Wrench In?

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 28 Jan 2009 10:23 am

I found these nylon containers at two stores near my house,Fred Meyers,and Safeway,They are $2.00 and a lot of stuff fits in it,tuning nuts,spring clips etc.They can be found in the travel section over by the small toothpaste,and shampoo.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 28 Jan 2009 10:50 am

Since the esteemed US medical system has seen to it that I'm forever hooked on an almost infinite number of medications, the up-side is that I have a constant supply of orange-hued see-through plastic bottles. They come in a number of sizes, so that's what I use.

Any residue in the phials will ensure that my picks and wrenches have low blood-pressure.

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 28 Jan 2009 10:53 am

I use the container that a roll of 35mm film comes in. I can carry it right in my front pants pocket and I always have my picks with me........JH in Va.

Brian Rung · Post by **Brian Rung** » 28 Jan 2009 11:00 am

Crown Royal bag for the smaller bottle, everything fits in there...had the same one since my senior year of high school...

James Morehead · Post by **James Morehead** » 28 Jan 2009 11:06 am

Here's my war bag. Hey Brian, I replace my bag a little more often than you do.

Brian Rung · Post by **Brian Rung** » 28 Jan 2009 11:12 am

My bag could use replacin', I've been off the CR since late in my teen years, drank to much of it too early, and you know the rest...anything Canadian/Blended is a little too "sharp" for me...

I discovered Woodford Reserve on a run through the southeast about 10 years ago and have kept a bottle around ever since...love that stuff...

I played with a drummer about 15 years ago that drank a handle of Canadian Hunter EVERY weekend...wonder if that guy is still alive?!

Don Drummer · Post by **Don Drummer** » 28 Jan 2009 11:21 am

I've kept my stuff in a cardboard stomp box container that,s coverered in in places with duct tape. The extra picks are on the bottom seperated by the foam packing material on top of which are my picks. The box is always in my seat and hs been there for 30 years. Don D.

Zeke Cory · Post by **Zeke Cory** » 28 Jan 2009 11:22 am

I keep my stuff in a little leather draw sack, about 4 1/2 inches wide by 5 1/2 inches tall. They cost about $ 2.50 at our local leather shop. They wear out every couple years but are cheap to replace. Then ... It takes awhile to get them softened up again so they fold easily. But it works. lol.

Greg Wisecup · Post by **Greg Wisecup** » 28 Jan 2009 11:33 am

Wow!!!!!!1 I had no idea that you could use other things. I thought it was "steel guitar law" that a Crown bag was to hold picks and bars!!! I don't drink the stuff but it sure makes for good storage. I learn something new every day.

Greg

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 28 Jan 2009 11:48 am

I'm surprised that someone enterprising in our steel guitar retail community hasn't come up with a well-designed solution to this.

I have a small bag with a zipper for my bar and my three favourite picks (only the spares go in the medicine bottles) that I 'stole' from my wife. The downside is that is has a somewhat feminine look to it.

Like my pink golf-shirts, however, I display it with all confidence....

Ned McIntosh · Post by **Ned McIntosh** » 28 Jan 2009 11:52 am

On the guitar:- Slyde-Car and Pup from Dale Hansen. Nothing better, in my view.

Off the guitar:- everything - volume pedal, spare strings, tools, cords, Mothers metal polish, polishing cloths, Slyde-Car & Pup, wooden wedges (for tilting amp and holding doors open) etc - goes into an Irwin "Builders Bag" which has two separate zippered compartments as well as a bunch of interior and exterior pockets. It sits on the floor next to me, or somewhere nearby if I'm on-stage. Heavy duty dark-blue Cordura, and two convenient carrying handles make this a real "must-have" steel guitar accessory. Looks super-cool, works extra well. "Grab-n-Go" sort of thing. I got mine at the Australian equivalent of Home Depot (Bunnings, familiar to all us Aussies).

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 28 Jan 2009 12:06 pm

I had a leather zippered pouch that my brother custom made to fit bar & picks with a side zippered pocket that held my wrenches and allen wrenches for the guitar. It finally fell apart after 30 or so years. Now I use the case that my glucose meter goes in. It has a pocket where my picks, small mag light and tuning wrench fit. Has a zippered pouch where tools go and an elastic loop that that bar fits into perfectly. It is nylon (I think) and has a zipper to keep it closed. Even has a velcro belt loop/clip on the back.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 28 Jan 2009 12:20 pm

Hey, Richard - that's smart!

I have a couple of those meters (there's the medical profession to the rescue again!) and mine are a sort of nylon, and of quite substantial construction....

Maybe it's time to give my wife back her lilac/floral-patterned make-up bag!

Mike Poholsky · Post by **Mike Poholsky** » 28 Jan 2009 12:20 pm

Circa '75. Man, if I ever lost it, I might have to rethink the whole deal! LOL

Clinton Erb · Post by **Clinton Erb** » 28 Jan 2009 12:27 pm

Uh... nothin'...

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 28 Jan 2009 12:36 pm

Bought this at Knotts Berry Farm in 82' ... does the job nicely !

Brian Kurlychek · Post by **Brian Kurlychek** » 28 Jan 2009 12:49 pm

I'd be afraid to hang a bag off my tuners for fear of someone snagging it as they walk by and bending one or worse, it would most likely be me that did it. Doh!

Gary Stenulson · Post by **Gary Stenulson** » 28 Jan 2009 12:50 pm

I use an old medicine bag I got from an Indian friend...Even keep my medicine in it....

Michael Haselman · Post by **Michael Haselman** » 28 Jan 2009 12:55 pm

George L makes a leather pouch, or used to. I've had a couple. The one I use now is a double zipper leather pouch that I got a couple years ago from someone on this here forum. Very nice. Just can't remember who from or if they still make them.

Glenn Boppre · Post by **Glenn Boppre** » 28 Jan 2009 1:08 pm

I use a small camera case. It's small I and put picks bar and the wrench in it

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 28 Jan 2009 1:10 pm

I've got a little pick pouch that I got from the ISGC on the right side of my steel "Redgold Beauty", and for my bar, I've got a little bar holder that goes onto "Redgold Beauty's" right side.

Brett

Tucker Jackson · Post by **Tucker Jackson** » 28 Jan 2009 1:11 pm

A metal Altoids Mints box.

Holds a standard 7/8" bar, a wrench, and it keeps the picks from getting crushed in my gig bag.

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 28 Jan 2009 1:11 pm

I've got a little pick pouch that I got from the ISGC on the right side of my steel "Redgold Beauty", and for my bar, I've got a little bar holder that goes onto "Redgold Beauty's" right side.

Brett

Jack Ritter · Post by **Jack Ritter** » 28 Jan 2009 1:48 pm

I just use an empty prescription plastic container that has a good screw-on lid on it. works very well and doesn't hurt your picks any or anything it may laying against in your seat.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 28 Jan 2009 5:58 pm

Crown Royal bag.
Nice and soft and easy on the bar finish.
It don't get any better.

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