Early fingerpicks were often made of celluloid plastic, which is *highly flammable*; buffing them by machine could be very dangerous. These probably were not celluloid, luckily, because if they were, the nitric acid fumes given off by celluloid as it ages and degrades would probably have corroded the metal parts on the guitar.
@@MillerCustomGuitars , my bad, I thought I saw some colorful "case candy" in your hand. By the way, David Lindley (RIP, 3/3/23) used a 1930's Rickenbacher lap steel for much of his slide guitar work with Jackson Browne; not the cast-aluminum "frying pan" guitar but one made out of dense, molded, black bakelite plastic. Later on with his own band ElRayo-X, and as a session sideman, he mostly played Supro, National, or Airline lap steels, all made by the Valco company. He often used an old brown Princeton in the studio, but played through a Dumble on stage; lap steel through a Dumble sounds like the end of the world, in the best way possible!
Early fingerpicks were often made of celluloid plastic, which is *highly flammable*; buffing them by machine could be very dangerous. These probably were not celluloid, luckily, because if they were, the nitric acid fumes given off by celluloid as it ages and degrades would probably have corroded the metal parts on the guitar.
No, the ones that I were buffing up were steel. They were very tarnished and rusty.
@@MillerCustomGuitars , my bad, I thought I saw some colorful "case candy" in your hand. By the way, David Lindley (RIP, 3/3/23) used a 1930's Rickenbacher lap steel for much of his slide guitar work with Jackson Browne; not the cast-aluminum "frying pan" guitar but one made out of dense, molded, black bakelite plastic. Later on with his own band ElRayo-X, and as a session sideman, he mostly played Supro, National, or Airline lap steels, all made by the Valco company. He often used an old brown Princeton in the studio, but played through a Dumble on stage; lap steel through a Dumble sounds like the end of the world, in the best way possible!