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This Machine Accepts All Credit Cards

In the 1920s, a now defunct factory in Oakland, California produced Kork-Grip picks, a flatpick with a cork pad that was supposed to keep the pick from slipping. Even though the Kork-grip company is long gone one of their old punch presses still lives on at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, California where Frank Ford has modified it to stamp out picks from credit cards.