If you’re looking for a guitar pick, there’s no shortage of different shapes, styles and materials available for you to choose from. Customized picks have been prevalent since the days when Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick would throw hundreds of them out into the audience. In fact, most famous guitarists have their own custom guitar pick. Even among the myriad of different styles, some plectrums are more unique than others. The world’s most expensive guitar picks are some of those.
Starpics, an Australian company known for plectrums made of precious metals, created a completely unique pair of guitar picks. Like their other picks, they’re guaranteed to last pretty much forever and to significantly reduce string breakage. So what makes these picks so special?
They’re made of meteors.
These two luxury picks were fashioned from pieces of Gibeon meteorite. Said to be around 4 billion years old, Gibeon meteorites were discovered in 1836 in Namibia, Africa, where their sale and export were banned by the local government. Despite that fact, over twenty-five tons of the meteorites have been recovered and it is the most commonly found meteorite on the market today. One of the most interesting things about the meteorites is the pattern of Widmanstatten lines created by their frigid passage through space. These patterns are preserved in the picks and can be seen in the picture above.
The most expensive guitar picks in the world are priced at $5,000 AUD ($4,674 USD).
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VERY expensive =D
i wanna play the most expensive guitar
Who wants to own some dusty old guitar picks? Boorrring!
What? john your a douche, these guitar pic’s are amazing, i’m not the best guitarist but just an hour playing my ibanez with those things and i’d be the happiest person ever.
i dont no y they r so expesive. i mean seriously i get my pics for like a doller or somfin
lmao, somefin. how would you even put these picks up for display if youre gonna spend so much money on them? a 2 inch by 3 inch frame? lolz.
wow you cant play a guitar with a meterite its magnetic lol
these are cool n all but i get hundreds of guitar picks and parts for free when i come down and play for my local guitar shop and plays 4 an hour or two
Jonesy, they’re so expensive because they’re made of meteors. Did you miss that part in the article?
Wow. . .there beautiful. . .id give anything to own them theyed sound amazing with my guitar.
i play guitar but pics should not have a big price on them because of their age or appearance they are beautiful but should not have such a big price.
They are cool… but not as cool as madness and cheese
if you bought it u wouldnt want to use it you would just stare at it
are you picking up what im putting down
Hmm, how can I buy one of these? I’ve been trying to find out where for a while now.
id like to use one of those
I wonder how much the most expensive bass pick is?
Wow.. you would be playing with rocks that are billions of years old.. if i had the money i would definitely buy these.. they’re expensive but hey, they took 4 billion years to make and they’re beautiful…
anyone actually own these, or are they still up for sale?
Wouldn’t the pick be magnetic??? o.0