Car parts used to be very solid and could take a beating. Fenders especially.
A medium pick can be sturdy but often slippery like the styling of a 1960s Bel Air.
But the Fender Medium Mojo Grip doesn’t slip nearly at all, and hence, is a ‘grail’ pick for novices and hard players alike.
Now, when I was a boy jamming my heart out with other kids on stage, one of my biggest fears was losing my pick (or a string snapping). I had to learn how to deal with that problem and it involved some compensating.
But today, we have many grip materials as I cover here. The Fender Medium Mojo Grip pick is one of those listed.
There was another product using the Mojo name, but they seem to have disappeared, probably because of legal reasons (I might imagine). I reviewed that product in the aforementioned review.
However, an even better way to make a pick grip is to sheath it in rubber; except the tip of course.
There ARE “sheath-like” products that I have to try still (and review of course), Even so, I can say this after using the Fender Medium Mojo Grip for at least a couple of weeks:
This is one of the best overall grips designs out there, and it is so simple and straightforward.
My one problem with it: The grip is integrated with the plectrum on the Fender Medium Mojo Grip as a single product. I wish Fender sold this grip by itself, it seems wasteful to put it on a pick as a package. Many might not think of slipping the grip off and using it on other picks.
But with that said, the Fender Medium Gauge Celluloid Pick is just about an industry standard, preceded only by D’Andrea’s original as seen here.
For those who really “dish it out” on their guitars (dig into the strings, lifting them away from the body a touch), such as with Blues and Metal, a Standard Celluloid, especially one with a grip, might improve your experience. Enter the Sandma–Fender Medium Mojo Grip.
I’ve discovered, that on my pick, I can slide it off and on to other picks that are shaped in the classic 351 Form as shown here.
Speaking of showing, here is the Fender page with those picks.
As I write this, SRV is coming through my Klipschs and I can almost see him in my mind wailing away with his heart and soul. The man had no limit to his expressiveness. He was a real blues man, despite not being a sharecropper, there is blues and there is THE blues, Stevie was, well, in full respect for the old Delta men. I can just imagine him using this pick and it makes me want to play that way.
The Fender Medium is a fairly flexible pick, yet the rubber handle stiffens it a touch, which kinda helps it, it makes a geometric flex, stiffer at the base a bit while having more “give” at the playing tip. The Mojo Grip complements the memory/reflex of the inherent feel of the celluloid. Now, I was thinking…
When I first thought about writing up this product, I kept pondering, “Gee, how much can I even say about it, it’s just a pick for Heaven’s sake!” But, when I picked up the Fender Medium Mojo Grip pick with my new Schecter S type I instantly got it. I keep getting ‘it’, too.
For myself, I find things I like in most picks, and often things I can’t stand, but this pick is pretty OK with me…
I might be embarrassed with it in front of better players in, say, the studio, but to heck with that, you do you, I do me. Besides, you might be able to save the grip for another pick if you have one it will fit on.
So at this point, we just have to do the specs, and I know you are snapping at me to get right to it, so here they are:
| Material | Attack Tone | Decay Tone |
Rubber Grip /Celluloid Pick | Medium- a touch of slap | Medium also sorry but how else to describe? |
| Durability/Wear | Comments/ Dimensions | Shape |
| Grip: A long time Pick: Will wear or break over time | Pick: 67H Durometer Rubber is rubber | The classic #351 with a shieth |
| Grip and Feel | Flexibility | Likely Use |
Very good all around | fairly Flexy with medium thickness But stiffened a touch | For real slamming not precision playing |
| Thickness | Width and Height | Resonance |
| Pick: .070mm Rubber: 2.90mm | With Shieth: 27.35 x 31.30mm | Dull from rubber |
| Tip Style | Bevel? | Approx. Cost |
| Classic tip | Rounded playing edge | $8.00/3pcs USA Direct From Fender |
Now, the Fender Celluloid deserves its own page, and I will get to that, along with others, like the Original by D’Andrea (here is a D’Andrea I’ve previously reviewed before I get to that).
You can expect a few celluloid reviews to come, there are so many picks and so little time, bro! Thankfully (some would say) Celluloid picks are still made (though there are fewer of them progressively), so we are obligated to keep covering them!
So here is what I will say:
Dig in with your inner Jimi and wail away with this Fender Medium Mojo Grip Pick, you might even thank me (well, thank Fender that is).
