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John Pearse® Single Swipes™ | John Pearse® String Swipes™ | John Pearse® Artiste™ Rosins | John Pearse® Baseball Caps
John Pearse® KingPins™ Brass Guitar Pin Set | John Pearse® Pick Boxes
The John Pearse® Edge™ Guitar Slide | John Peares® Sarod Picks
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JOHN PEARSE® BONE GUITAR BRIDGE & END PIN SET
Ever since ivory was banned John has been looking for a substitute that has all the same characteristics...and is just as beautiful! Man-made plastics may come close but they just weren't close enough. So, he went looking for something that already existed in Nature..the use of which would not be ecologically damaging.
The end result is the John Pearse® Bone Bridge & End Pin Set!
Hand-made from the finest quality camel bone, these beautiful pins are indestinguishable from ivory and will make your guitar both look and sound marvelous!Throughout their lives camels carry such heavy burdens that, as a result, their bones--particularly in their legs--develop a density that very closely approximates that of elephant ivory. For this reason, camel bone has long been favored by carvers who were delighted by its stability and the ease with which it could be polished.
After carefully hand-lathing each pin, our artisans inlay it with a dramatic Parisian Eye in Ebonite and Awabi Pearl and then the set is mounted in a presentation base made from exotic Tegenwood.
Each set contains seven bridge pins [in case you lose one!] and a matching end pin.
John Pearse® Bone Guitar Bridge & End Pin Set.................$ 59.95 Set
We are also very excited about our new John Pearse® Bone Picks--Dimple, Flat or Sarod style!
Top-quality camel bone picks made in our trademark Dimple Style...with that comfortable dimple configuration that your thumb just loves. For Right or Left Hand Players! Or, the brand new John Pearse® Bone Sarod Picks, carved for Thumb and Index Finger! Or, try the new FLAT Bone Picks, if you have the preference for a flat plectrum. Also, they make perfect blanks if you want to design your own pick shape!
New! John Pearse® Bone Dimple, Flat or Picks................$ 8.00 Each
JOHN PEARSE® BUFFALO HORN GUITAR BRIDGE & END PIN SET
Our John Pearse® Buffalo Horn Guitar Bridge & End Pin Set is the latest addition to our Bridge Pin Family of KingPins™ and Faux Tortoise Shell Pins.
As with all our sets, you get SEVEN beautifully carved slotted pins and matching end pin which are inset with Mother of Pearl! So new a product for us, you'll have to wait to hear John wax philosophical about them!
New! John Pearse® Buffalo Horn Guitar Pin Set.................$ 49.95 Set
JOHN PEARSE® BUFFALO HORN PICKS
Buffalo Horn is hand carved and polished to a fine gloss to make these new John Pearse® Buffalo Horn Picks exquisitely beautiful!
An incredibly dense and yet light material, you get the same ease and fast response as you would with tortoise shell! But, these are legal!
They are available in 4 styles:
The SAROD is a thicker pick because it is carved on both sides for thumb and index finger to hold. It is the same sort of carving as on our Ebony or Rosewood Sarod Picks mentioned below. It is also a RIGHT-HANDED pick. At the moment, we don't have this style available for left-handed players...but we do have the DIMPLE....keep reading.
The DIMPLE "feels" like a thinner pick because it is only carved on one side...the "dimple" for the thumb! That also makes it EITHER RIGHT or LEFT-handed! It also works well if you like to play with the "shoulder" of the pick rather than the point!
The FLAT is exactly that--a flat pick of Buffalo Horn. If you are interested in carving your own, it makes a starter blank!
We also have our HORN SAROD SPECIALS...made from the white part of the horn. There are never many of these so they are always special and perhaps a little harder than the black!
You'll never know what a difference it might make until you try one!
John Pearse® Buffalo Horn Picks.................$ 8.00 each
Dimple, Sarod or Flat
John Pearse® Albino Horn Sarod Specials.................$ 10.00 each
JOHN PEARSE® Imported FAUX TORTOISE SHELL GUITAR PIN SETS
We are delighted to introduce these wonderful slotted John Pearse® Faux Tortoise Shell Bridge Pins with Abalone Dots.
Packaged as a set of seven [for seven string guitars or six strings with a spare] these pins are absolutely the closest thing to the appearance of the REAL thing--the trade in which is now illegal, thank heaven! They are created from Casein, a phosphorprotein of MILK [!!] precipitated by heating it together with a mild acid to form this beautiful and extremely hard-wearing plastic!
We have had such an incredible response to these pins, that we now have available the matching end pin AND strap button! A good friend, Wayne Henderson, said we needed to have the set so everything on the guitar would match! And guess what you might find on his new guitars!
Perfect for dressing up that little old Martin or a vintage European Romance guitar, they are wonderful on new instruments too! The John Pearse® Faux Tortoise Shell Pins vary in light and dark just as real tortoise shell would, with a golden warmth highlighted by the shimmer of Abalone Dot Inlays. [Check out the photo to see the variation that is possible!] Their density adds an interesting coloration to the sound of the instrument, similar to that obtained by using fossil ivory.
An udderly unique idea from an inexhaustable and not-threatened resource--as long as the cows come home! :-)
John Pearse® Faux Tortoise Shell Bridge Pins .................$ 21.95 each
Packaged Set of 7 Bridge Pins [in Plastic Bag]
John Pearse® Faux Tortoise Shell Bridge & End Pin Set .................$ 29.95 each
Packaged Set of 7 Bridge Pins plus End Pin [in Plastic Presentation Case]
John Pearse® Faux Tortoise Shell Guitar Pin Set ..................$ 31.95 each
Packaged Set of 7 Bridge Pins, One End Pin, One Strap Button [in Plastic Presentation Case]
John Pearse® Faux Tortoise Shell End Pin ..................$ 8.95 each
John Pearse® Faux Tortoise Shell Strap Button ..................$ 6.95 each
JOHN PEARSE® PEDAL STEEL BAR BOXES
Over the years, we've talked with a lot of steel guitar players. One item has been mentioned forever--some sort of container to protect steel bars! Well, we've always been incredibly proud of the hardness of our Thermo-cryonic Tone Bars™, since they are so hard they don't ding or scratch. And, at the same time, we've been concerned for the players who have such a problem! So, after a long search, we've found something which, we think, will solve the problem!
Made of thick hard white plastic, with a living hinge and fastening, the box is incredibly solid. The cover actually fits down inside the lower section of the box to make the seam stronger. The box measures 3-7/8 inches long by 2-1/2 inches wide by 1-1/8 inch deep! That's enough to store several pedal steel bars as well as the room for a cloth to pad them! There's even probably room for some thumb and finger picks too and yet small enough to fit into a pocket or an instrument case!!
John Pearse® Pedal Steel Bar Box ..................$ 5.95 each
JOHN PEARSE® STRING SWIPES™ 
AND
EXTENDS ANY METAL STRING LIFE!
SUSPENDS AND REMOVES OXIDATION!
CREATES MICROSCOPIC PROTECTIVE BARRIER!
FINALLY...A DEFENSE AGAINST 'ACID' HANDS!
Non-Toxic, Non-Flammable, Non-Corrosive, Ozone Friendly
Here, in this little round box,or in this individually wrapped package, is salvation for any musician with an instrument with metal strings--John Pearse® String Swipes™!
Swipe--then wipe with a soft cloth--your strings when you first put them on the instrument and before you play. This leaves a microscopic barrier that protects the strings which feel smoother and will finger faster.
Swipe--then wipe--your strings after you play to remove any damaging skin oils AND to remove and suspend any oxidation, keeping the strings sounding better, longer!
Now if you let someone play your instrument, YOU won't hve to worry about immediately changing strings! So no more "Acid" hands! AND, you won't have to change brands to try to get longer life from your strings.
Keep the container closed and in the plastic bag provided to avoid any evaporation.
Imagine the instruments you can use it on...banjo, autoharp, guitar, hammer dulcimer, mandola, pedal steel, violin, zither, and on and on!
John Pearse® String Swipes™ with CAIG DeOxit--if you are serious about sound!
John Pearse® String Swipes™ [container - 30 String Swipes™.].....................$ 12.95 each
New! John Pearse® SINGLE String Swipes™ [clamshell/20 packages].........$ 12.95 each
New!John Pearse® SINGLE String Swipes™, each....................................$1.25 each
We are so happy to offer our wonderful new Artiste™ Rosins with their extraordinary wooden "violin" cases! Everyone who has seen them won't put them down...they just want to hold them in their hands! The design on the case is a design drawn by Stradivarius so you are actually holding a small part of history!
Imported from Italy, the rosin is made to the highest standards and comes in formulations for either Cello [Right] or Violin [Center].
The box is 2-3/4 inches long by 1-1/2" wide at the bottom bout.
The perfect item for a player....and the perfect gift for a player!
Spoil yourself....or someone else!
John Pearse® Artiste™ Cello Rosin.................$ 27.95 each
John Pearse® Artiste™ Violin Rosin.................$ 27.95 each
We've been wanting to bring these out these John Pearse® Pick Boxes for a long time!
With our "Music Really Does Make the World a Better Place" logo [just like our Oval Sticker], this bright silver metal box is just incredibly handy! Deep enough to hold finger and thumb picks and capos--and even small bars--it can still slip easily into your pocket or the string box in your instrument case.
The John Pearse® Pick Box comes with one of each weight of our Jazz and Studio Picks--a total of eight picks with a list price of almost five dollars! That means that the Pick Box is literally Free! The size is 3-1/4" long by 2-1/2" wide by 3/4" deep.
New! John Pearse® Pick Box................$ 5.95 each
GET MAJESTIC
SUSTAIN & TONE!!
Set of Seven Bridge Pins [one spare!] and One End Pin
Machined from the Finest Bell Brass, then
Each is Crowned with a Genuine Parisian Eye,
Hand-set in Ebonite & Pearl!!
Enthroned in a solid block of Indian Rosewood, in a protective plastic case containing a Vapor-Tab designed to keep them sparking-workshop-new until you install them on your guitar to experience the wonderful difference that a Bell Brass Bridge Pin and End Pin combination can make!
Sustain is the name of the game! Brittle-bronze, sometimes called by it's German name, "glocken-messing" (bell-bronze) is an extremely hard and very dense alloy. Because of it's composition, it is able to effectively store any energy that is transmitted to it, which is why--for centuries--it has been used as a material for the manufacture of bells.
A great deal of the energy that is generated by the striking or plucking of an acoustic guitar string is dissipated at the bridge and therefore wasted. The more solidly-built electric guitar utilizes its string energy much more effeciently than the lightly-constructed bridge area of even the finest acoustic guitar. However the new John Pearse® KingPins™ eliminate much of that energy loss, acting almost like small energy 'batteries' at the bridge-end of each string, allowing a more efficient use of the string energy--and greatly improving both sustain and tone!
The number of pins you need depends very much upon the total characteristics of your guitar. A guitar with good tonal balance, string to string, would probably open up considerably by the replacement of all six original plastic or wooden pins with the new Pearse® KingPins™. Then again, just the replacement of the first, third and sixth might be sufficient. Just try and see!
If you have a guitar with a weak treble, you might just need to replace the first three pins--while one with a weak bass response should improve greately if you replace the pins that secure the wound strings. Incredibly, the replacement of JUST ONE PIN can markedly improve the character and tone of your guitar. Experiment! The tonal possibilities are endless!!
To compliment these meticulously crafted pins, John has added a matching End Pin. Like the Bridge Pins, the massive yet delicate End Pin is inlaid with a handmade Parisian Eye of Ebonite and Pearl.
Parisian Eyes were first developed in the Eighteenth Century Europe as a decoration that a maker of violin bows would add to his finest bows. It seems fitting to add them to the new John Pearse® KingPins™!
John Pearse® KingPins™are packaged as a set of seven slotted Bridge Pins and one End Pin.
New! John Pearse® KingPins™..................$ 49.95 set
We are happy to let you know that our beautiful new John Pearse® Strings Baseball Caps are finally here!
Available in Tan, Navy or Black they are just what you need for picking outside!
[photo coming!]
New! John Pearse® Baseball Cap.................$ 13.95 each
The New JOHN PEARSE® EDGE™ GUITAR SLIDE
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Not a bottleneck.... not a knife.... it's the patented
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Strange as it may seem, when the first bluesmen experimented with playing slide on their guitars back in the twenties, they didn't use bottlenecks! The first slide guitar players utilized a knife, usually a pocketknife, or a straight razor--held between the ring finger and the pinky of the left hand. Held like this, it was possible to barre straight across the strings or play individual notes on different strings and then swing the knife--or razor--out of the way when it was not needed.
It sounded great, but it was clumsy--and painful! Soon bluesmen switched to a slide fashioned from a medicine bottle or made from the neck of a wine bottle. This worked better, it wasn't so uncomfortable, but it was just as clumsy--and the slide had a tendency to lay diagonally across the strings. Still, it was the only solution, so players used it.
NOW there is THE EDGE™ Slide from John Pearse®. Going back to the idea of the straight razor, John created a slide that was sculpted in such a way that it would fit effortlessly between the ring finger and the pinky. He designed so carefully that it has a counterbalance that allows it to be swung out of the way when it is not needed. Finally, he cast it from dense bell brass to give it incredible sustain. The EDGE® is unique. The EDGE™ is beautiful! The EDGE™ is where it all began. Finally the wheel has turned full circle. Have YOU got The EDGE™?
NEW! The John Pearse® EDGE™ Guitar Slide .............$11.50 each
John Pearse® Ebony and Rosewood SAROD & FLAT PICKS
Traditional musicians in Northern India originally fashioned picks from coconut shell to play the Sarod, a multi-stringed fretless relative of the sitar and the rebab. In later years, the picks have been reduced in size and many players of the modern sarod have abandoned the coconut picks in favor of a new, more compact, pick made from ebony or rosewood.
European and American musicians traveling in India in the sizties brought these unique picks back with them and soon guitarists were discovering that they made superb picks for jazz! The tone that they produced was full and rich and immeasurably stronger than that produced by a celluloid, nylon--or even a tortoise-shell pick.
The exciting new SAROD Picks from John Pearse® are handmade for us in India by craftemen who are expert in the fashioning of exotic woods. One side has a rounded depression for your thumb while the other has a curve just perfect for your index finger to hold the pick snugly and securely. They are made for Right Handed Players. We also now have FLAT EBONY and FLAT ROSEWOOD picks available. Use either Right or Left Handed or use them as a blank to carve your perfect pick.
Just hold one of the these painstakingly carved picks in your hand and hear for yourself the magic that has been concealed within your guitar.
NEW! The John Pearse® Ebony Pick .............$3.00 each
SAROD or FLAT
NEW! The John Pearse® Rosewood Pick .............$3.00 each
SAROD or FLAT
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