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Our Dual Grip guitar picks feature contouring on both sides for a natural-feeling grip and incredible control. Hand-crafted from real animal bone, the natural materials highlight the low and mid frequencies while giving a solid boost to the overall volume. Popular with acoustic players of all styles, especially Jazz and Django Style.
Black Zebu Horn — The Sacred Animal
Revered for centuries. Every part honored. Nothing wasted.
In Madagascar, the Zebu is not simply cattle. It is the center of spiritual life, a symbol of wealth, ancestry, and respect that runs deeper than any Western understanding of livestock can reach. Zebu are present at every significant moment in Malagasy culture — births, marriages, funerals, and festivals. They are sacrificed in sacred ceremonies called Joro to honor ancestors and communicate with the spirit world. To own many Zebu is to hold status. To give one is the highest gesture of respect a person can make.
This is the animal your pick comes from.
What You Hold
Horn sits at 2.5 to 3 on the Mohs scale — softer than stone, which gives it a playing feel unlike anything else in this collection. Where stone is firm and immediate, horn is subtly alive — slightly warm to the touch, with a natural grip that requires no texture or treatment. It flexes imperceptibly under pressure, producing a tone that is smooth, fluid, and organic. Players who make the switch rarely go back.
The black coloring is entirely natural — no dye, no treatment, no finish. This is how it comes from the animal. Each pick is hand-cut and polished to a deep, lustrous black that feels more like obsidian than anything biological. Until you hold it, and realize it is warm in a way stone never is.
What Makes It
Zebu horn is composed of keratin — the same protein that forms human fingernails, rhinoceros horn, and bird beaks. It is one of nature's most elegant structural materials: lightweight, self-lubricating, and remarkably durable for its weight. Horn has been used by craftspeople for thousands of years precisely because it machines beautifully, polishes to a high gloss, and develops a subtle patina with use that makes each piece more individual over time.
Ours is sourced exclusively as a byproduct of Madagascar's food industry — material that would otherwise go to waste. No animal is harmed in its procurement beyond what the local food supply already requires. In a culture where the Zebu is considered sacred, using every part of the animal is not a marketing position. It is a sign of respect.
What It Means
There is a long tradition — across dozens of cultures and centuries — of making musical instruments and tools from horn. It is one of humanity's oldest working materials, predating metal, predating ceramic, predating almost everything we now reach for instead.
A Nativo Black Zebu Horn pick connects you to that tradition. It connects you to an island culture where this animal is genuinely revered. And it does so without waste, without harm, and without pretense.
Warm in the hand. Fluid against the string. Sacred in its origins.
Material: Black Zebu Horn
Tip Shape: Butterfly Cross Blade
Thickness: 1mm (0.040”)
Popular With: Acoustic Guitar
Amazonite — The Stone of Pharaohs
Worn by kings. Carried into the afterlife. Played in your hands.
In 1922, when Howard Carter cracked open the tomb of Tutankhamun and light touched those chambers for the first time in three thousand years, among the gold and linen and legend they found Amazonite. Carved into jewelry, set into the famous burial mask, placed deliberately among the most sacred objects a civilization could imagine accompanying their king into eternity.
They chose it on purpose. So did we.
What You Hold
At 6 to 6.5 on the Mohs hardness scale, Amazonite is hard enough to handle thousands of string strikes while holding a clean, precise edge. Cool to the touch and smooth under the fingers, it delivers a tone that is warm and articulate in a way plastic simply cannot match — immediate contact, real material, no dead layer between you and the string. Each pick is hand-cut and polished to lapidary precision. The surface disappears in your grip. The sound does not.
What Makes It
Amazonite is a variety of microcline feldspar, and its color — that unmistakable blue-green, somewhere between glacier and jungle — is the result of trace amounts of lead and water locked inside the crystal structure during formation. A precise geological accident, millions of years in the making, that cannot be engineered or replicated. It is found today in Madagascar, Brazil, Colorado, and Russia. No two stones are the same shade. No two picks ever look alike.
Despite being named for the Amazon River, no deposits have ever been found there. The name itself is a mystery — which feels entirely appropriate for a stone that has kept people guessing for three thousand years.
What It Means
The ancients believed Amazonite carried courage. They buried it with their greatest king. We shaped it into the object a musician reaches for more than any other.
A Nativo Amazonite pick is not an accessory. It is a direct line — from your fingers, through a stone that outlasted empires, to the strings of your instrument.
Three thousand years of history. One perfect point of contact.