How to Make Heart-Shaped Guitar Picks

The essentially heart shape of the guitar pick makes it easy to create your own heart-shaped picks.

Heart-shaped guitar picks can be used as a signature for guitar players, by a female or male guitar player as a stage statement, or even given as gifts to your favorite guitar player. Since guitar picks are nearly heart shaped to begin with, you can make your own custom heart-shaped guitar picks with guitar picks of your choice, simple tools and a small investment in time.

Things You'll Need

• Guitar pick
• Scissors
• File

Instructions

1. Choose a guitar pick. Red or pink work well for heart-shaped picks, but you can make a heart-shaped pick with any color or design you prefer.

2. Hold the guitar pick up with the narrow tip between your thumb and forefinger. The narrow bottom is the point of the heart. Use scissors to cut a small "V" shape in the top of the pick. Turn the scissors inward as you make this cut to help round it out.

3. Cut a small, rounded sliver from each top corner of the pick to create the rough heart shape.

4. File the top corners of the pick until they are smooth and well-rounded. A fingernail file works well for this. File away excess plastic from the "V" area you cut from the pick to ensure the edges are smooth and rounded.