Kasho Zelluloid

Nothing can replace genuine celluloid picks.

Nearly all plectrums sold nowadays are made of plastic, whereas only a handful of pickmakers still use celluloid. A sad thing, really, because celluloid just simply sounds a lot better than plastic. Strike a note with a celluloid and you'll immediately hear the difference ? louder, fuller. Apart from sounding better, celluloid picks also look a lot better, too.

Celluloid was invented back in 1864 by the Hyatt Brothers and doesn't really have much to do with plastic, rather more with wood. Wood consists to about 40 percent of cellulose, and it's this cellulose stuff that colours the sound of celluloid picks far more than all the other components found in wood. Celluloid is won from cellulose in a lengthy and somewhat complicated process. Further ingredients are cotton, alcohol and camphor. Celluloid is quite easy to use as long as it's thin ? film reels are still made from celluloid. However, it becomes more difficult to work with celluloid the thicker it is ? drying alone might take half a year!

Kasho, based in Okinawa, Japan, is one of the very few companies which still use celluloid. They're not getting rich using it. We have been fortuanate enough to recieve a licence from them, which means you can buy original Kasho plectrums right here. And we definitely hope we'll keep that licence for a long, long time....