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Post by lavaman on Sept 29, 2020 14:19:03 GMT
I don't usually play with a thumbpick or fingerpicks because I like the sound I get with fingertips on an acoustic. However, having built a resonator cigar box type guitar I thought I'd try thumb and finger picks on that. My favourite so far is Alaska Piks. You have to file down the rough edges and cut and file the length to suit but they seem to work for me. For the thumbpick I'm using an orange Fred Kelly Delrin speed pick. I'd be interested to hear which fingerpicks you like. Here's a clip of the resonator cigar box played with these picks Iain app.box.com/s/m80z3bey80zgnm83l7m0a76jwocy8060
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Post by Amit on Sept 29, 2020 14:51:05 GMT
Hi Iain
I've used ProPiks pretty exclusively for over a decade. I use their thumbpick (which I file down to my preferred blade length), and their fingerpicks. The fingerpicks don't have a solid surface, but an opening so some of the bare fingers protrude, so they feel a little more like a nail and are a bit less 'clangy' compared to the solid metal picks I tried.
Amit
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Post by leoroberts on Sept 29, 2020 17:00:12 GMT
Fred Kelly speed picks all the way - for my thumb (though, to be honest, I tend to use whatever thumb pick is to hand - no pun intended - but FK my favourite) Never got on with finger picks. Just couldn’t get used to them so, when I break a nail, I just strum with a plectrum til the nail grows back
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Post by delb0y on Sept 29, 2020 21:07:37 GMT
Herco heavy thumb-pick, and bare fingers, does it for me :-)
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Post by ocarolan on Sept 29, 2020 21:47:43 GMT
Fred Kelly speed pick (white) on my thumb, plus fingernails. never could get on with fingerpicks - always felt like having to get dressed before playing; downstrokes difficult (except Alaska, though still a bit weird). seem to have been lucky with my nails, give or take the odd Superglue/Epoxy/bogpaper repair very occasionally.
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Post by ianlp59 on Sept 30, 2020 7:30:04 GMT
FK thumb pick (orange or possibly white) and acrylics for the nails and I'm good to go...
Cheers,
Ian
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Post by curmudgeon on Sept 30, 2020 18:26:29 GMT
I only really use finger/thumb picks on dobro and Weissenborn - and I don't see either of them much. I use pro-piks and very cheap, basic transparent Dunlop jobs which I prefer to all the fancy stuff.
this is my dobro:
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Post by hughesy on Sept 30, 2020 19:17:11 GMT
I experimented a bit with different finger picks and liked the propik ones best for both fingers and thumb. They do different finger picks but the best ones for me, were the version where your finger tip actually protrudes. The thumb picks have a metal clasp which is easy to bend to your thumb shape.
In the end though, I just use nails for the most part for fingers and thumb.
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Post by Matt Milton on Oct 2, 2020 8:48:07 GMT
Alaska Piks are the only ones I can use, because they are radically different to standard fingerpicks. I've never understood standard fingerpicks, they seem 'back to front'. Alaska Piks seem far more logical to me, they're basically just like having false nails. I prefer plastic Aslaskas, they seem to stay on better.
I rarely use fingerpicks - basically only use them when I've broken nails and I have a gig. Maybe if I was going to play an unamplified gig somehwere I knew from experience would be noisy and I'd need some volume. Maybe for busking.
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Post by lavaman on Oct 2, 2020 10:01:27 GMT
Thanks for all your comments guys, very helpful. I'll try the Propik picks and see how I get along with them as they seem similar to the Alaska picks. The Fred Kelly thumbpicks seem popular so I'll probably stick with them.
What I find strange is that I have no trouble using a thumbpick with fingerpicks, but using a thumbpick with bare fingers feels very alien. Thanks again Iain
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