What Would MacGyver Do?

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What Would MacGyver Do?

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I was travelling in the UK and Italy over Christmas and New Year, with steel guitar. During a session, this is what happened.....


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Luckily I also carry a normal guitar pick, which I sometimes use on steel, and there happened to be a few rubber bands handy...


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Would MacGyver have done any differently?

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Carry extra picks?
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Super glue it to his finger!
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Are you sure your not the Roadie?
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It seems I remember a story about some famous player of yore who broke his thumb pick and quite resourcefully fashioned one out of a toothbrush heated and shaped over a burner of a stove. I'm thinking it was either Jerry Byrd or Dick McIntire.
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We were so poor I cut up brown clorox bottles or used bobbie pins for pics.
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Some innovative answers so far...

Some more thoughts..would Macguyver have considered

- playing without picks?
- using the collar-bone in his shirt collar ?
- not picking with his thumb at all ?
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Some innovative answers so far...

Some more thoughts..would Macguyver have considered

- playing without picks?
- using the collar-bone in his shirt collar ?
- not picking with his thumb at all ?
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Post by Kay Das »

Some innovative answers so far...

Some more thoughts..would Macguyver have considered

- playing without picks?
- using the collar-bone in his shirt collar ?
- not picking with his thumb at all ?
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Post by Ernie Dunlap »

Lets just take a hair comb and use it as the Bar and play banjo licks on steel.
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If you lose your bar?
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