Formed over millions of years. Collected at the edge of the tide. Held in your hand.
There is a coastline in Madagascar where the Indian Ocean meets ancient volcanic rock, and twice a day, when the tide pulls back, a window opens. It is the only time — and the only place on Earth — where Orbicular Jasper can be found. Collectors travel to this remote shore, work quickly, and leave before the sea returns.
What they carry back is unlike any other stone on the planet.
At 6.5 to 7 on the Mohs hardness scale, Orbicular Jasper is hard enough to strike strings thousands of times without losing its edge. Cool to the touch, substantial in the hand, it produces a tone that no plastic pick has ever replicated — articulate, warm, and immediate. Every pick is cut, shaped, and hand-polished to exacting tolerances by a lapidary. The edges are exact. The balance is right. The surface disappears in your fingers while you play.
Inside volcanic rock, roughly 100 million years ago, minerals began radiating outward from microscopic points of origin — slowly, concentrically, over geological time — forming perfect spheres within the stone. Every orb you see on the surface of your pick is a record of time itself. And because no two stones are alike, no two picks ever will be either.
Guitar picks are the most intimate interface between a musician and their instrument. We think that object deserves to be something real.
A Nativo Orbicular Jasper pick will outlast every plastic pick you have ever owned. Somewhere on its surface, in the swirl of cream and rust and ocean green, is a pattern that has never existed before — and never will again.
Formed over millions of years. Collected at the edge of the tide. Held in your hand.
There is a coastline in Madagascar where the Indian Ocean meets ancient volcanic rock, and twice a day, when the tide pulls back, a window opens. It is the only time — and the only place on Earth — where Orbicular Jasper can be found. Collectors travel to this remote shore, work quickly, and leave before the sea returns.
What they carry back is unlike any other stone on the planet.
At 6.5 to 7 on the Mohs hardness scale, Orbicular Jasper is hard enough to strike strings thousands of times without losing its edge. Cool to the touch, substantial in the hand, it produces a tone that no plastic pick has ever replicated — articulate, warm, and immediate. Every pick is cut, shaped, and hand-polished to exacting tolerances by a lapidary. The edges are exact. The balance is right. The surface disappears in your fingers while you play.
Inside volcanic rock, roughly 100 million years ago, minerals began radiating outward from microscopic points of origin — slowly, concentrically, over geological time — forming perfect spheres within the stone. Every orb you see on the surface of your pick is a record of time itself. And because no two stones are alike, no two picks ever will be either.
Guitar picks are the most intimate interface between a musician and their instrument. We think that object deserves to be something real.
A Nativo Orbicular Jasper pick will outlast every plastic pick you have ever owned. Somewhere on its surface, in the swirl of cream and rust and ocean green, is a pattern that has never existed before — and never will again.
—Durbha K.
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—Richard H.
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—Alessio
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