Intercept Shield, Guitar Strings, and Me?

TommyType

I bought some new guitar strings, and I see that they are packaged in Intercept Shield baggies. (Pic Below)

Question #1: Do you think it would be safe to stash some coins in the bags after they are guitar-string free, or would you be concerned about PVC, or some other aspect of using a non-coin product?

Question #2: Is it OK to use an S-VDB cent for a guitar pick?

Question #3: Write a rockin' guitar tune to collect coins by.

(Feel free to answer only question #1 if you prefer).

airplanenut

Bell Labs... my dad's worked there for over 20 years, but I get no discount on IS stuff... maybe that's why he's leaving

ldhair

#2- Sure. It may add a bit of tone.
I know it's bad- Ill shut up.

wayneherndon

I asked Christine Tropiano of Intercept Shield to email me a response I could post here. Here are the relevant portions:



Wayne;

D'Addario string company has been a customer of ours for years. The bags
they use are a very low mil of Corrosion Intercept to be used for a finite
period to ship the strings. They buy the bags by the millions. The bags have a
limited protection life. Additionally, they would not tone a coin if they
were placed in the bag after it was used.

People still try to find the zip loc bags used by our industrial customers
(ibm, lucent, nasa, us military, etc). We pulled the small bags (2x2) off the
market when we launched the 2x2 holders. I still get about 10-15 requests
for the bags a month.

Lucent Technologies / Bell Labs developed the original technology and then
did not want to pursue it. Lucent has nothing to do with the products, their
manufacture or sale.

Christine

Gonfunko

<< <i>I bought some new guitar strings, and I see that they are packaged in Intercept Shield baggies. (Pic Below)

Question #1: Do you think it would be safe to stash some coins in the bags after they are guitar-string free, or would you be concerned about PVC, or some other aspect of using a non-coin product?

Question #2: Is it OK to use an S-VDB cent for a guitar pick?

Question #3: Write a rockin' guitar tune to collect coins by.

(Feel free to answer only question #1 if you prefer). >>


I'd think it would be safe to store coins in the bags, although it wouldn't be a bad idea to check with Intercept Shield. Don't use the 1909-S VDB for a pick unless it's it one of those ANACS net-graded-to-negative-basal-state holders or one of the fakes from ebay. And for #3, Pink Floyd's "Money" might be a good choice.

TommyType

Thanks for the effort and the answer Wayne! Sounds like "It won't hurt, but it may not help much either".

And thanks for the good music answer Gonfunko....I really should have been able to figure that one out myself.

sammydabull

answer to #2, if you used a 1909 s vdb one cent piece as a pick, you will ruin your strings, it will "nick" em untill they break. and probably cost more than what you could make using it to make muusic

(i had to use change in a gig we were in in florida, no picks in the whole pub!!! but i managed to use a 1998 D lincoln cent for four songs untill it broke my B string )