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| Author: | Billy T [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:17 am ] |
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I've been using a bronze/copper pick! They just CREAM the strings! After 2 hours the 3rd is stone dead. I like the grab, but of course it's galling the bronze windings. I've already succeeded a lot in this world, by working my way up from nothing to extreme poverty, but I still can't afford strings at that rate! It got me thinking, I wonder, what kind of picks you guys on the OLF use and why! (Sorry guys, no funny pictures of Serge, Hesh, or Bob this time) 
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| Author: | Sam Price [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:19 am ] |
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Funnily enough I bought a metallic pick the other day...they are REALLY hard to get used to. The strings sounded overzingy and I was scared I might chop up the strings... |
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| Author: | Mark Tripp [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:36 am ] |
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I use these Wegen Picks - The triangular ones in a heavy thickness. 1. Because I can hang on to them! 2. Because they sound great! -Mark |
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| Author: | Michael Dale Payne [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:41 am ] |
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billy I have the perfect solution. It is called Finger-style 
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| Author: | TonyKarol [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:28 am ] |
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I use the ones I can get for free from the cdn MEAC show, equivalent to NAMM but way smaller. Easy enough to grab about 2 years worth, including losing some and giving a couple away !!! Most are celluloid, I like them the best, med or heavy. Thumbpicks are Fred Kelly's, I bought two bags when I found them. |
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| Author: | Rod True [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:39 am ] |
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I use Dunlop's 0.60mm in the match book 
I like the feel over the string, just right for aggressive strumming with out "twanging" the strings. |
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:45 am ] |
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I use very flexible picks and the way i hold them, i make any instrument sound loud. 
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| Author: | A Peebels [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:02 am ] |
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I prefer no pick at all, but I use Dunlop Nylon when I need one. Al |
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| Author: | Don Williams [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:04 am ] |
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I have a natural tortoise shell pick that I love.....they're the best. |
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| Author: | John How [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:23 am ] |
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[QUOTE=TonyKarol] I use the ones I can get for free from the cdn MEAC show, equivalent to NAMM but way smaller. Easy enough to grab about 2 years worth, including losing some and giving a couple away !!! Most are celluloid, I like them the best, med or heavy. Thumbpicks are Fred Kelly's, I bought two bags when I found them.[/QUOTE] The Fred Kelly speed picks are my favorite and your right, ya need to get a bunch cause those suckers are alway finding their way out of your pocket whether wrapped around your key ring or stuck in your pocket knife. |
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| Author: | JBreault [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:28 am ] |
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Fender Mediums for me. I used the Dunlop .80 mms when I was playing bass...but I find them too aggressive for my acoustic. |
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| Author: | Homeboy [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:30 am ] |
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Genuine Tortoise Shell only. I like a thick pick and the way it makes my guitars sound. |
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| Author: | CarltonM [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:35 am ] |
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Billy, Why do you like the metal picks? Extra stiffness; tone; rust? |
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| Author: | old man [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:20 pm ] |
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I use Fender mediums in the big triangular shape. Only thing I can hold onto. Ron |
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| Author: | Billy T [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:35 pm ] |
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[quote]billy I have the perfect solution. It is called Finger-style [/quote] Never! You don't know where my fingers have been!
Thanks guys! I'm glad I asked. I didn't know some of these picks even existed. Sam: Yes, I got used to the zingy sound and started to like it! And it's a bloody, sickening, stringicide. Mark: Man! Those Wegens are thick! They seem like they would go thump! I like being able to get a grip on them. Do you use the Trimus or the TF's? Rod: Never really got into Nylon but those are also a lot thicker, I'll have to go there again. Charlton: I just liked the taste of the bronze residue on my left hand so much I wanted to get it on both hands!
Yes, the stiffness and the tone. I made a 303 series stainless pick years ago. The dissimilar metals weren't so bad for the galling. I don't know where that one went. SS = No Rust!!
Sergiolio: How do you hold these thin picks? With a 9mm? Extra sound port anybody?
Couple of votes for Tortoise, some Kelly, and (*****Pun Warning*****) Fender - which I already use in a..... pinch (I'm really really sorry about that!!). Thanks guys, I really appreciate it! Billy Dean Thomas |
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| Author: | Dennis Leahy [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:42 pm ] |
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I only use tortoise when I can't get any ivory billed woodpecker beak - they're the best! Dennis |
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| Author: | LanceK [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:48 pm ] |
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Ive used Fender Heavy's, the celluloid type for nearly 25 years. They use to be Hot pink and powder blue, these days I settle for tortis color
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| Author: | TonyKarol [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:24 pm ] |
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No t sure how many of you have ever tried, but play the guitar with a couple different picks .. you will certianly notice a change in tone, whether or not the pick has been tumbled to round the edge, or the material is different. I used to use a dunlop tortex heavy, like 1.0mm at least, then one day a friend says try this - gives me a med celluloid .... I couldnt fathom the change for the better in how the guitar sounded. More harmonic content, articulation. its not just how you play a guitar, but what you play it with. |
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| Author: | Mark Tripp [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:38 pm ] |
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Billy: I use the TF's - 1.2mm. How about those gypsy jazz picks tho'? Must be like playing with a brick! -Mark |
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| Author: | Arnt Rian [ Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:42 pm ] |
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I like thick picks for both guitar and mandolin. I find thinner pick to be best for strumming, which I rarely do, so I don't use them; too much pick sound, not enough string sound, and not enough precision. I sometimes use a Dundlop Big Stubby, mainly for mandolin, or any ol' teardrop style pick that is around 1,2 mm or thereabouts that happens to be in my pocket. I sometimes turn them around and use the back side, the part where the radius is really big, depending on the sound I want. On the guitar (both eclectic and acoustic) I usually have some sort of combination between flat-picking and finger picking going, and sometimes I hold the pick between the knuckles of my index and middle finger while I fingerpick, but I can get the pick in position really fast when I need it. I also use a thumb pick a lot with the acoustic guitar. I do have a genuine tortoise pick that is very nice (checking, yes I still have it!) that I got from the Duke of Pearl. He recycles them from old combs, spoons and so on. I remember in the '80's we used to use some sort of rock picks; not rock as in rock 'n roll, but actually made from rock, shaped and polished as regular picks. They were too heavy even for me! |
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:29 am ] |
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Billyoso T, I hold them with epoxy!
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| Author: | CarltonM [ Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:37 am ] |
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[QUOTE=Billy T] Yes, the stiffness and the tone. [/QUOTE] Hmmm...I was afraid of that. It's going to be pretty much impossible to exactly match those qualities in a non-metal pick. Real stone picks would probably come the closest, but I think they're thicker than you'd like, if I read you correctly. You might try this: Square the edge of a medium plastic pick (I like Tor-Tex), which should give you some of the "ping" you get from metal, and rough up the area around the edge with sandpaper to give some pre-pluck grab. Or, you could give up playing and become a hermit. |
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| Author: | Mark Tripp [ Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:21 am ] |
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Greg Boyd in Montana has a wonderful selection of picks. That's where I get my Wegens from. -Mark |
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| Author: | JBreault [ Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:47 am ] |
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Billy, I wonder if this would be better for your strings... 
Here's the link: Core Wire Pick |
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| Author: | dunbarhamlin [ Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:12 am ] |
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Tried one of those wire picks - couldn't get away with it - too grabby in a coarse sort of way. Sometimes use copper on my electric zooks, but mostly use a Wegen that came with a Stochello Rosenberg book or Dunlop 207s and 208s. Tried a thick rubbery pick for a while - fun for a change. Steve |
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