Patent ID: 8389839
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: G10D

Abstract:
1. A thumb pick comprising a unitary one-piece body having a substantially inflexible pick point portion, and a strap portion extending away from the pick point portion, the strap portion being designed to wrap around a musician's thumb, the strap including a lower portion for engaging the fleshy surface of the musician's thumb and a upper portion for contacting the nail of the musician's thumb, the pick point portion including an outwardly projecting tip designed to engage a string of a stringed instrument, the projecting tip extending outwardly transversely to an axis of the thumb and in a plane that is common to that axis, and a gusset located on and extending upward from an upper surface of the outwardly projecting tip to the strap upper portion to unitarily join the tip to the strap upper portion to provide pick point portion with a desired degree of inflexibility.