EchoTi Is a Titanium Guitar Pick Designed to Outlast Plastic Ones

A guitar pick is the cheapest thing a guitarist owns and the only one that touches the string. It’s also the one that wears out fastest, gets lost most often, and ends up in a drawer or a bin. EchoTi is a bet that a pick is worth engineering properly.

Made by a maker called MIH, EchoTi is machined from a single piece of Grade 5 titanium. It’s the follow-up to ResoTi, an earlier pick that MIH says reached more than 1,700 guitarists, and the company is direct about EchoTi being a response to what those players complained about. The tip shape changed, the grip moved forward, and the glow tubes moved inside the body.

The campaign is heavily oversubscribed. As at 18 August 2026 it had raised US$66,404 from 1,063 backers against a US$1,800 goal, which is 3,689 per cent funded. Pledging closes at 11:30pm AEST on Monday 24 August 2026.

What Is the EchoTi?

EchoTi is a metal guitar pick, or plectrum, machined from Grade 5 titanium. Grade 5 is the titanium alloy used in aerospace and medical implants, chosen here because it does not corrode and does not soften.

That’s the whole argument. Ordinary picks are made from celluloid, nylon or Delrin, and every one of them wears down. The edge rounds off, the point dulls, and the pick you’ve played for a month no longer sounds like the one you bought. MIH’s claim is that a titanium pick keeps the same geometry indefinitely, so the attack stays consistent from the first take to the hundredth.

Around that core, EchoTi adds things a normal pick has no room for: a magnetic back panel you can swap, magnets strong enough to stick the pick to your guitar or amp, a keyring mount, and a glow accent sealed inside the body.

EchoTi Design and Build

The profile is what MIH calls Jazz3-inspired. A Jazz III is a small, sharply pointed pick that has been a standard among lead players for decades, and the shape was chosen after feedback that the previous ResoTi’s rounded profile felt slow and snagged on the strings.

The clever part is the edge. A thick pick feels powerful but drags on the string; a thin one feels quick but flexes. EchoTi keeps a substantial body and then machines a 15-degree bevel so that only 0.3 mm of metal actually contacts the string, down from 1.2 mm on the ResoTi. The pick is not thinner. Only the part that touches the string is.

The grip moved too. MIH measured that guitarists naturally choke up toward the tip, so the grip sits 15.31 mm from the point instead of the ResoTi’s 18.8 mm. The company says that figure came from iteration rather than theory. The pick weighs 5.2 g, which MIH frames as steadiness rather than heft.

The surfaces do two different jobs. The grip is sand-blasted to a fine, suede-like texture that holds on to a sweaty thumb, while the playing edges are mirror-polished so the string glides off. EchoTi comes in titanium and copper, across three finishes, and the magnetic back panel lets you swap the look in seconds. MIH also offers laser engraving.

How the EchoTi Works

In use it’s still a guitar pick, so nothing needs operating. The design work is all in what happens in the fraction of a second the pick is against the string.

Because the bevel presents only 0.3 mm of metal, the string releases sooner than it would off a blunt edge. MIH is careful about the claim, and so are we: the company does not say this makes the guitar louder or brighter, only that the note starts more cleanly. The technical term is the transient, the very first moment of a note. Whether you can hear the difference is a personal question, and it’s the sort of claim no specification sheet can settle for you.

Away from the guitar, the magnets are the practical feature. They hold the pick to any steel surface, so it can live on the guitar itself, on an amp, or on the headstock between songs. It also mounts to a keyring, and the glow accent is sealed inside a panel rather than exposed, which MIH says makes it safer and more durable than the ResoTi’s arrangement. MIH also sells an optional leather sleeve.

EchoTi Technical Specifications

Here are the EchoTi specifications as listed on the campaign, read 18 August 2026.

• Platform: Kickstarter
• Material: Grade 5 titanium, machined from one piece; copper option
• Profile: Jazz3-inspired
• Bevel: 15 degrees, CNC machined
• String contact thickness: 0.3 mm (ResoTi was 1.2 mm)
• Grip position: 15.31 mm from the tip (ResoTi was 18.8 mm)
• Weight: 5.2 g
• Finish: Sand-blasted grip, mirror-polished edges; three finishes
• Modularity: Magnetic swappable back panel
• Carry: Magnets for steel surfaces, keyring mount, optional leather sleeve
• Glow accent: Luminous vials enclosed in the panel; tritium vials optional
• Personalisation: Laser engraving available as an add-on
• Estimated delivery: November 2026
• Shipping: Worldwide, unrestricted

EchoTi Pros and Cons

Based on the campaign material, here’s how the EchoTi stacks up.

What We Like

• Grade 5 titanium will not round off or corrode the way celluloid, nylon and Delrin picks do
• The 0.3 mm bevelled contact edge is a genuine attempt to get thin-pick release from a thick pick
• Grip position and texture were changed in response to documented feedback on the previous model
• Magnets, a keyring mount and an enclosed glow accent make it much harder to lose than a normal pick
• The magnetic back panel means one pick can be restyled rather than replaced
• Ships worldwide with no country restrictions

What to Keep in Mind

• At US$32 and up it costs many times what a bag of plastic picks costs
• Metal picks sound and feel distinctly different from plastic, and not every player likes that
• A 5.2 g pick is heavy next to a typical 1 g plastic one, which takes adjustment
• The tonal claims are the maker’s own and are inherently subjective
• It is a crowdfunding project from a small maker, with delivery estimated for November 2026
• Titanium is harder than the strings, so a heavy hand may wear strings faster

What to Consider Before You Pledge

Metal picks are a taste. They’re brighter and more percussive than plastic, they make a distinct click against the string, and plenty of players try one and go straight back to a Dunlop. If you’ve never played a metal pick, that’s the real question to settle, and it’s worth borrowing one before you spend US$32.

The second thing is the numbers. The 0.3 mm contact edge and the 15.31 mm grip position are specific and checkable once the pick exists, which is more than most pick marketing offers. But the claims that follow from them, about cleaner note starts and less effort, are the maker’s own and cannot be verified from a campaign page.

Finally, MIH is a small operation and this is its second pick. That’s reassuring in that the company has delivered a product before, and worth remembering in that a US$1,800 funding goal is very small, so the campaign was never going to fail on funding alone.

Man of Many’s Verdict

EchoTi is a lot of engineering aimed at an object most guitarists treat as disposable, and that’s either the appeal or the problem depending on how you think about picks. The design decisions are unusually well argued: the bevel, the grip position and the two-texture finish each answer a specific complaint about the previous model.

We would call it a good gift and a good everyday-carry object, and a genuine maybe as a playing tool. If you already prefer metal picks, this looks like one of the more considered ones. If you play plastic and are happy, a titanium pick will not change your playing, whatever the campaign says about transients.

Where to Buy the EchoTi

08EchoTi is available only through its Kickstarter campaign, which closes at 11:30pm AEST on Monday 24 August 2026. These are the pledge tiers listed on the campaign, read 18 August 2026. All figures are in US dollars against a US$49 RRP for a single pick, and the cheaper tiers are capped.

• Single pick: Super Early Bird US$32, Early Bird US$35.
• Two-pack: Super Early Bird US$55, Early Bird US$59.
• Four-pack: Kickstarter Special US$95.
• Ten-pack: from US$199.

Add-ons include a leather pick sleeve at US$12, a black finish at US$12, a titanium quick-release keychain at US$15, custom engraving at US$15, an interchangeable magnetic panel set at US$15, and tritium vials at US$30. Shipping is unrestricted and estimated delivery is November 2026.

EchoTi FAQs

If you like metal picks, or you’re shopping for a guitarist who loses picks constantly, EchoTi is worth a look before the campaign closes on 24 August 2026. It’s still a pledge on an undelivered product, with units estimated for November 2026.