About PickPedia

I'm @james, a software engineer and guitar player from Australia. I built PickPedia because I wanted somewhere to keep track of my own gear — every modification, every service, every guitar that came and went — and a way to share it with other people who care about the same things.

Why a public catalogue

If you collect gear, you've probably got a system for it. A spreadsheet. A Notes file. A folder of receipts. They work, but they're private and they're ugly, and they don't connect you to anyone else doing the same thing.

PickPedia is a place where the catalogue itself is the share. Your collection exists as a real, browsable page that other gear nerds can find — full of photos, specs, history, and the small details that make a piece of gear worth talking about. The act of cataloguing stops being admin and starts being part of the hobby.

Why I built it

I run my guitars through a lot. Gigs, setups, pickup swaps, gear coming in and going out. I wanted that history to live somewhere I'd actually look back at — not in receipts I'd lose. And I wanted to see what other people were collecting, because guitar communities in real life are some of my favourite places to be, and the online version of that has been a gap.

A one-person operation

I handle development, design, hosting, and the bills. Things move at the pace I can move them at — that's part of the deal.

Found a bug or got an idea? The forum's Feedback category is the best place to tell me — I read everything.

PickPedia is free, and that's not changing.