What Does an F18 Night Vision Lens and have to do with a Guitar Pick?

What Does an F18 Night Vision Lens and have to do with a Guitar Pick? What does an F18 night vision lens have in common with a guitar pick? Some pretty awesome things, that’s what. F18s are smooth, sleek, and sexy, just like Rock Hard Picks. With it’s unique color scheme and diamond-like carbon (DLC), […]

Rock Hard Featured in Cleveland Scene Magazine

Scientist and entrepreneur Jerry Mearini works out of an office that looks like something from another time. An old 1959 TV is hooked up to a VCR that plays old sci-fi flicks and various gizmos and gadgets clutter the space. Back in 2003, the Wall Street Journal ran a feature story about all the retro-looking […]

Crain’s Cleveland Interviews Dr. Gerald mearin, Founder of ROCK HARD

Crain’s Cleveland Interviews Dr. Gerald mearin, Founder of ROCK HARD Bill and Ted would be proud. A local physicist has created a guitar pick that will not tolerate “musical lameness.” A pick that puts your cheapo plastic picks to shame. Because it might as well be made of diamond. Jerry Mearini was just playing around […]

Fresh Water Cleveland Interviews Dr. Gerald Mearini, Founder of ROCK HARD

Back in 1982, Jerry Mearini was all set to study guitar at Berklee College of Music when he abruptly changed his mind. “The day before I was supposed to go, I realized that I couldn’t play guitar for the rest of my life,” he recalls. Instead Mearini earned a degree in physics from Ohio State and a masters and […]

Cleveland.com Interviews Dr. Gerald Mearin, Founder of ROCK HARD

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ohio — Would his future lie in music or science? That was the decision Jerry Mearini faced as an 18-year-old living in Ashtabula. When Mearini was a teen planning for his future, his parents wanted him to go to college. He, however, had other things on his mind. “I liked to play guitar […]