Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Making a guitar pick out of something that's several hundred million years old is probably a fairly unorthodox pastime so I'm lucky to have a friend called Paul Clacher who does just that. Paul has made me quite a few gemstone pick treasures over the years and I love them all. This one, which he calls 'The Reactor' sandwiches two substances together for a kind of 'reactive' quality when the strings are hit. I was, like you, a little dubious at first when he told me about it, but having tried the S-Tone Reactor, I can tell you it actually imparts a kind of energetic 'pop' quality on the string attack AND it looks and feels fantastic. Another treasure for me, and you too if you give him a yell via the link above. Lovely work, Paul!
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Today's tools:
Guitar: 2020 Fender 70th Anniversary Esquire. Stock
Amp: Axe-FX III Turbo running FW: 31.04 public beta #.2 Fender 'blackface' Twin model + REVV Dirtdog Overdrive
Cables: Various
Strings: Ernie Ball Paradigm 10-46
Picks: As shown in the video
Mic: Audix USA A231 - audixusa.com/products/a231
Camera: GoPro HERO10 + Sony ZV-1M2 x 2
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum 26x32
Desktop Monitors: PreSonus R80 R-Series Active AMT Studio Monitors - presonus.com
Monitor Control: SPL 2Control - https://spl.audio/en/spl-produkt/2control/
Headphones: Audix A152 - audixusa.com/products/a152
All Stands: Gravity Stands - gravitystands.com/en
Computer: 2025 Apple M3 Ultra.
facebook.com/paul.clacher.7
Making a guitar pick out of something that's several hundred million years old is probably a fairly unorthodox pastime so I'm lucky to have a friend called Paul Clacher who does just that. Paul has made me quite a few gemstone pick treasures over the years and I love them all. This one, which he calls 'The Reactor' sandwiches two substances together for a kind of 'reactive' quality when the strings are hit. I was, like you, a little dubious at first when he told me about it, but having tried the S-Tone Reactor, I can tell you it actually imparts a kind of energetic 'pop' quality on the string attack AND it looks and feels fantastic. Another treasure for me, and you too if you give him a yell via the link above. Lovely work, Paul!
buymeacoffee.com/brettkingman
Today's tools:
Guitar: 2020 Fender 70th Anniversary Esquire. Stock
Amp: Axe-FX III Turbo running FW: 31.04 public beta #.2 Fender 'blackface' Twin model + REVV Dirtdog Overdrive
Cables: Various
Strings: Ernie Ball Paradigm 10-46
Picks: As shown in the video
Mic: Audix USA A231 - audixusa.com/products/a231
Camera: GoPro HERO10 + Sony ZV-1M2 x 2
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum 26x32
Desktop Monitors: PreSonus R80 R-Series Active AMT Studio Monitors - presonus.com
Monitor Control: SPL 2Control - https://spl.audio/en/spl-produkt/2control/
Headphones: Audix A152 - audixusa.com/products/a152
All Stands: Gravity Stands - gravitystands.com/en
Computer: 2025 Apple M3 Ultra.
