He lacks a pick-and-place machine of his own, and unsurprisingly the idea of doing the job by hand is a little daunting. We can certainly feel his pain, for in the past we’ve been there.

Decent equipment helps – but, according to Foley, the picking hand is the crux of achieving a great guitar tone ...

But the real secret about tone is that it comes from your picking hand,” she tells Guitar Player. “Your fretting hand is doing one kind of work, but for the most part it’s flowing in the ...

During that time, staff had to revert to the hand-picking process, which some of them had never had to do before.