fernandraynaud - 9-3-2009 at 01:43 AM
I find that no matter how many I make, you know, a long time with sandpaper, no matter how many I make, I only have about 4. The others vanish. I
think they go to the same place that eats the socks, so there are always unmatched pairs of socks. I tried all sorts of tricks, my pile of blanks
slowly diminishes, and at times it seems I'm looking at 6 or more, but then when I sit down to play, I always only have 4, and only one good one! My
favorite is always missing. By the time I find it, I count, and again, it's only 4 total. 
I know I had a white one with a Sukar logo on it -- disappeared long ago, too.
So will there come a day when they all emerge at once, like a resurrection, or will we have to buy another set of blanks, and continue to have no more
than 4? Is this like a law of the oud universe, or am I just losing my mind?
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p.s. Off topic. Does anyone else have a dog?
arsene - 9-3-2009 at 01:57 AM
the same mysterious dissapearances occur in my house too - and not only rishas for oud: picks for guitar, saz, bouzouki - they all magically wander
off or something! They do, sometimes, appear again, usually under very suspicious circumstances...
Luttgutt - 9-3-2009 at 02:10 AM
Knock on wood (but don't knock too hard, so you brake your oud like I did), I never lost a pick! NEVER!
I still even have the one I used when I was 11!
So I have soooo many of them, all sorts of brands and colores hand made or bought....
BUT, a BIG BUT, the one and only one that was PERFICT for me, that one I LOST!!!!!! a month ago 
I am surely passing through bad time here...
How bad can it get?
Microber - 9-3-2009 at 02:30 AM
I recently move in the new house I bought.
And I found back a guitar pick that I lost about 25 years ago !
I think I bought it more than 30 years ago.
(A lot of souvenirs of my rock star period )
A risha is like a boomerang.
It always comes back.
Sometimes have to wait a lot.
Jack_Campin - 9-3-2009 at 09:21 AM
I used to leave my cumbus leaning against a wall with the plectrum threaded tightly through the strings at the nut. My cat Zeke (see my site for a
photo) thought plectrums were WONDERFUL cat toys and every so often there would be an unmistakable loud BONG as he yanked it out with his teeth. I
would usually find it a few weeks later, curled up and perforated with little toothmarks.
paulO - 9-3-2009 at 11:34 AM
Dear Luttgutt ,
Look in your driveway -- that's the only place I've found the two favorite pick's I've lost -- one in my driveway, one in my friends driveway. The
other ones -- they're gone
Best of luck,
PaulO