drkrimson's Journal: Ask /.: Best DIY Plectrum?

It is statistically proven [citation needed] that the #1 instrument played by programmers is still the guitar. With a generalization like that, where else would I ask a question about DIY guitar pick manufacturing than here on slashdot? (FIY: a guitar pick or plectrum is the little plasticky thingy guitar players occasionally hold while playing the guitar)

After yet another hour long strip search of my flat, moving furniture, removing carpets, checking every crevice, cavity and hole for one of the, undoubtedly thousands, picks this place seems so eager to swallow mysteriously. Usually within 12 hours of purchasing them. Yet again, I take scissors, a hotel door card and some duct tape and fabricate me something that looks and feels,... anything but like a pick.

If only I knew of some freely available never ending source of plectrum material out there. Would it be possible to pull of some harmonics from the edge of a pine corn? Tried it, didn't work. Started coming apart after 3.4 strums,...

Dear /. what's the best you have come up with to construct a pick in a pinch?

My thumbnail

[Naqamel]

Although I also always keep a couple of emergency picks in my wallet. [musiciansfriend.com]

Specifically - the orange ones.

Packaging

[tqft]

The really hard plastic packaging they seem to pack almost everything in (still a bit soft) or the plastic of a DVD case.

Or just hacksaw down a floppy disk.