NiciArt News

With the holiday shopping madness in full swing, we decided to give our beloved old-school style template, the Supply Theme, a facelift thereby eliminating the sideways scrolling menus, pop ups, and drop downs which make navigation an exercise in finger gymnastics. Our new responsive theme features a simple organized structure of menu options and emphasizes "click and go." As the shop designer and resident engineer, practicality usually supersedes aesthetics, so this revised organization of products into nice neat categories represents a bit of painful mental wrangling. Our studio captures more the work flow of a hardware aisle, where we know...

Usually the holiday rush starts the Friday after Thanksgiving around midday and wave upon wave of orders leave us buried for those 4 weeks heading into Christmas and New Years. Much like trying to shovel snow in blizzard with a soup spoon, trying to get ahead is impossible, however we manage to keep up with short nights and long day. This year, the holiday rush started on Saturday the 19th, before I even had a spare moment to list our Christmas items. This year we are adding a few handmade Christmas Tree ornaments in limited quantities: a merry Christmas Bronze...

To complete our new thumb pick collection, we are happy to list our sterling silver version of our latest thumb pick in Nici's Picks : Unlike our classic guitar picks which are pressed one at a time from the various metals using a handmade custom pancake die, these new thumb picks take handmade to entirely new dimension as they are sawed one at a time using a fine fret saw. While handmade guitar picks really hype up the crowd, the 52 tpi saw blade creates a rather rough edge that needs considerable filing by hand in order to actually be...

With our Nici's Picks site ready to celebrate its first Birthday, we have decided to expand the line-up to include: more guitar pick jewelry, slides, and thumb picks. Our first thumb pick: You Rock My World Bronze Thumb Pick with Music Note rocks out in bronze and features both a music note and you rock my world. For the guitar pick, we decided on 3/4 in by 3/4 in and 20 gauge bronze to offer the best flexibility as well as allowing for easy adjustment of the band. The second pick in the new collection is the classic: I Pick...