Iron Age Codex — Guitar Blog

Wooden guitar picks offer a rigid, natural alternative to plastic picks. Learn which woods work best, how they feel and wear, how they compare with plastic, and how Iron Age has made wood picks since 2015...

Stone Age Guitar Picks and Iron Age Guitar Accessories are separate, unaffiliated brands with overlapping histories in the stone guitar pick niche. See the documented timeline, why the names are sometimes confused, how to identify genuine Iron Age picks, and where both brands stand today.

Resin guitar picks can vary widely in material, feel, durability, and construction. Explore cast epoxy, polyester, and resin-composite picks, plus what Iron Age has learned from making them since 2019...

Metal guitar picks offer a rigid, durable alternative to plastic picks. Compare brass, aluminum, steel, stainless steel, titanium, and copper picks, including their feel, weight, wear, and potential drawbacks.

Guitar pick grip describes the traction between a pick and your fingers. Learn how texture, grip holes, engraving, grooves, coatings, and other features affect how securely a pick sits in the hand...

Yes, guitar picks can affect tone by changing the attack and release of the string. Learn how material, stiffness, thickness, tip shape, bevel, and surface finish influence the sound of each note.

Guitar pick shape affects grip, control, precision, and how the pick releases from the strings. This guide compares standard, Jazz, teardrop, triangle, rounded, and pointed picks to help you find the shape that fits your playing style...

Thin picks flex more and often suit strumming, while thicker picks offer greater rigidity and control. This guide compares thin, medium, and thick guitar picks, explains how material and bevel affect feel, and helps you choose the right thickness for your playing style...

What makes a good guitar pick for metal? This guide breaks down material, thickness, shape, and grip to help you find a pick suited to tight rhythms, fast leads, and precise picking...

Not sure what pick to use on acoustic guitar? This guide breaks down thickness, flexibility, material, and shape so you can choose the right pick for strumming, flatpicking, or more precise playing...

Boutique guitar picks go beyond the standard shapes and materials found in mass-produced packs. Learn what defines the category, how boutique differs from handmade, and why some players seek them out...

A red-orange resin sheet sat in the shop for years before it finally became the limited Sol Invictus guitar picks. This Craft & Creation entry follows the process from CNC planing and engraving to hand finishing, wax, and the final satin glow.

Oisín is more than a figure from Irish myth. As the last warrior-poet of a vanished heroic age, he stands between worlds: youth and age, myth and history, beauty and loss...

Trying to pick the right guitar killswitch without overthinking it? In 60 seconds, I’ll walk you through momentary vs latching, drill vs drop-in, and LED options so you can choose the right Iron Age switch and get back to playing...

Rehearsal is the arena before the arena: a room, a count-in, and the moment where your right hand has to hold steady. Gladiator is a 3mm Ultem roster built to stay put, stay sharp, and earn meaning through use—one round at a time.

Empyrean MMXXVI started as a long-shelved slab of “stormed” resin and a simple idea: carve a crown out of the heavens and make it playable. This is the build log of what happened when that crown cracked—and how forty-eight picks were rebuilt to finally hold...

This is a running log of buyer-visible spec changes for Iron Age gear for the year 2026. Picks, knobs, killswitches, and policies are listed by date with a short note on what changed, why, and what you might notice in use...