About Gravity Picks
Gravity Picks was founded in early 2011 by Chris, who started the company with $4,000 in personal savings and built it into one of the best-known names in boutique guitar picks. The company's manufacturing facility sits about 60 miles east of San Francisco, California, where every pick is made and hand-finished in the USA rather than mass-produced overseas.
The brand's signature material is high-grade acrylic, shaped with a proprietary bevel system, roughly 80 degrees on most shapes and 60 degrees on the Edge, then either polished to a glass-smooth finish or left as an unpolished Master Finish. That process has built a following among players who want a tone and feel distinct from standard celluloid or nylon, including Rob Chapman and guitarist Steve Stevens, and independent reviewers at outlets like Performer Mag and Guitar Pick Reviews have praised the picks for durability and an articulate, surgically precise attack.
Brand website: gravitypicks.com
What Gravity Picks makes
Gravity Picks's catalog runs wider than the gear we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
Acrylic Variety Packs
Multi-thickness assortments of Gravity's core hand-finished acrylic picks — the line featured in our guitar picks guide — featured on House of Octave
Single Acrylic Picks
Individual picks sold one at a time across a range of thicknesses and bevel styles
Speed Bevels / Striker
A steeper, specialized bevel design built for fast picking attack
Gold Series
Original and colored polished-acrylic variants
Signature & Collaboration Picks
Rob Chapman Signature and JHS collaboration designs
Acrylic Custom Shop
Personalized picks with custom logos, artwork, or shapes
Why we recognized Gravity Picks
The House of Octave Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose gear consistently stands out in our player-tested category guides. Gravity Picks earned it on the strength of the products below, judged the same way every product on this site is: assessed on build, tone, and playability, weighed against what players actually report over years of use, and ranked on merit.
Gravity Picks gear we rated highly
Gravity Acrylic Variety Pack Guitar Picks - 8 Pack
A noticeably brighter, louder, and more articulate tone than standard celluloid or nylon, thanks to polished, hand-finished acrylic bevels that release the string cleanly — many owners describe it as the best-sounding pick they've played. Acrylic barely wears, so where a celluloid pick rounds off and needs replacing, one of these holds its edge far longer, and the eight-pick variety format lets a player try several shapes and bevels to find the one that fits their attack.
Read the 9 Best Guitar Picks of 2026 (Beginner, Acoustic, Metal, Jazz & Bass) guide →What earned Gravity Picks the recognition
- Best Premium / Boutique Tone in our guitar pick testing: the Gravity Acrylic Variety Pack was the one boutique acrylic to earn that recognition against the mass-market names we tested
- Hand-finished in the USA at a facility about 60 miles east of San Francisco, California, using a proprietary bevel process shaped and polished by hand rather than mass-produced overseas
- Founded in early 2011 with $4,000 in personal savings and grown into one of the best-known names in boutique acrylic picks, used by players including Rob Chapman and Steve Stevens
- Independent reviewers at Performer Mag and Guitar Pick Reviews consistently note the acrylic construction outlasts and outperforms celluloid or nylon on durability and tonal clarity, echoing what we heard in our own testing
- The variety-pack format lets players sample multiple shapes and bevels in a single purchase rather than committing blind to one boutique pick