Your Favorite Picks

scott_s · Post by **scott_s** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:27 pm

So I guess I should zip it about the ivory picks? <eg>

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j/k, I use Dunlop "USA NYLON" 0.60mm picks -- they don't slide around in my fingers, and they seem "janglier" sounding to me.

joeyr · Post by **joeyr** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:08 am

Dunlop .73 -- That's all I use.

...and if they could get the turtle ink not to smudge, they'd be perfect.

dkxl5 · Post by **dkxl5** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:29 pm

I use Ultra Cool medium picks, the black ones. Standard shape with some kind of a thin textured rubber grip on both sides. They're plastic but when you drop them on a table and they sound like metal. They are really light and rigid and dig nicely into 12's strung with Pyramids.

fran4001 · Post by **fran4001** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:58 am

I must be old fashioned! I still love a Fender medium 351 in tortoise or celluloid or whatever the things really are now! Been using them since '73.

bluesyric · Post by **bluesyric** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:09 pm

Plain ol' Fender Heavy for me.

delberthot · Post by **delberthot** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:09 pm

I too use Herco heavies - they work for Chris Squire and they work for me too

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 9:04 am

Yup, Fender heavies here also, used to use mediums but found them too clicky. I must put this in context, a pick lasts me years if I don't lose them and of course I do. Jeffrey here has had the same pick for what, 89 years or something like that?

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:22 am

I use Carvin mediums.

danbind · Post by **danbind** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:23 pm

I've taken a liking to Cool picks--made of "Juratex", whatever that is. Very rough surface, so easy to keep ahold of, and the right amount of stiffness and snap. They have them at Elderly, I think (and Classic Axe in Manassas, VA).

eddier · Post by **eddier** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 6:09 pm

I use these weird "Sharkfin" picks. I think they are made in Sweden mostly because it says so on the pick

They have three edges: a "normal pick shaped" edge, a longer "shark- fin" edge and a serrated edge.

They are different from the Dunlop version in that the plastic they are made from is very flexible, durable and thermodynamic.

The thin-Red models are like playing with a piece of wax paper that molds around your fingers after a few minutes. I am told Trevor Rabin favors these. They work really well on 12 strings.

The med-White and the heavy-Lite-Blue models are slightly thicker and have a "springy snap" when used for strumming. They have very little "click" when they make contact with the strings. The serrated edge is great for artificial harmonics and oddly enough bass guitars. They are extremely durable.