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Recycled Guitar Picks

2023

6 weeks

Brief

Source scrap material and give it new purpose, creating a small production batch to be sold.

Skills/Tools

Granulator
Heat compressor
Material exploration
Production run

What is ReMade?

A material exploration driven project, giving new life to used materials.

Material Sourcing

PLA sourced from 3D printing scraps from personal projects, school and work.

Processing Material

Sorting PLA by color and running scraps through a granulator to output fine pellets.

Creating PLA Sheets

Experimenting with pellet color layout and heat pressing into sheets.

Laser Cutting

Designing, laser cutting, and engraving a variety of pick shapes and clips.

Guitar Picks + Clip

Four pick shaped; shark fin, triangle, standard, and jazz.

Accompanied by a pick clip that can be affixed to a guitars headstock for easy storage and accessibility.

Entrepreneurship

Class created small production batch to sell at local business Ideal in downtown Bellingham, WA.

Display Stand

Fully recyclable stand created from 3D printed PLA and wooden dowels.

300+ picks created