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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I was going through my rather large guitar pick collection the other day...I found a guitar pick that used to be my go to guitar pick for years (actually I found two): Original Mel Bay light's: green nylon textured. I thought these were long gone and the originals mostly are history...however, MB has released a re-issue of the original:
So I plan to order a 12 pack and see if they are the same or just look-a like's...
These picks were/are so responsive and the textured feature was the best I had ever found...the originals had a very fine/deep checkering that the fingers could grip and that would not come loose...well, almost never...
I used to turn them around and use the rounded edge for some great effects while playing lead...
In the interim, I use two other types by another manufacturer: Jim Dunlop nylon .60mm in lt. grey (also textured but not as good as the MB IMHO)...great for Ovations...and then, especially for electrics: Dunlop Tortex .60mm in orange...tortex has a nice feel and they grip well.
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Fender medium teardrops for years, but I'm now using a right-hand BlueChip 35 of the same shape that was given to me last week. If it works for me, I might pick up a supply. I have hundreds of picks in my pick box and don't seem to play hard enough to wear them out, although I know it happens. Steel strings act like a rasp on plastic. |
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Location: SoCal | OFC cream colored picks! Same as Fender mediums.
You mean everybody here doesn't use OFC pics? |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
Dunlop Tortex .60mm in orange...tortex has a nice feel and they grip well.
So, what are you using and what's your favorites? These are all you will find in my cases. I've been using them for so long that whenever I try another type, it feels as strange as wearing my watch on the wrong wrist. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Herco Heavy thumb pick, when I use one, (not that often). |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Canterbury String Shop Fingernails. Right handed only. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Prof, you're gonna like the BlueChip.
After using the RedBear for years, after one day of using the BlueChip I lent him at the clinic, Brad Davis had to have it.....
so I swapped him the pic for some swag. He used it nonstop the rest of the weekend and told me several times how much he loved it. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Coolpix... mediums & lights |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | I'm trying to build a callus on the outside edge of my thumb. That's all Toy Caldwell used! |
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Location: Ohio | Dunlp TOrtex Orange and green |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Snarling Dog Brain Picks... Black 88mm and Red 71mm
Also Cactus Picks medium green
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Location: Texas | Jim Dunlop Jazz III - Red
http://www.jimdunlop.com/index.php?page=products/pip&id=3&pmh=produ... |
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Location: Indiana | Dunlop Nylon 73mm & 60mm. |
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Location: Tennessee | For me, it depends on the guitar and what I'm playing. So I tend to have several different favorites that I move between. But aside from things where I want to get a really specific sound, I use primarily two types ... a custom made "bobbo" pick from Clayton that is Acetal and .80mm. Works for both acoustic and electric, strong enough not to break but I can still get some good snap out of them.
The other one I've been using a lot lately is a Pro Plec 1.5mm pick, the tri-tip Bill Kaman signature model that includes the hand-shaped three sides and notch. These are arguably the best picks you can find unless you move up to a RedBear, BlueChip, or pure tortoise.
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Location: closely held secret | That's a nice pick, Bob. Where'd you get it? |
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Location: Tennessee | There's a guy who hand shapes and bevels these in a small workshop in his basement. I got a small supply of them from him. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I never thought about the existance of "Pick Snobs" and Collectors. I do like the idea of grabbing some when you visit a friend though...
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Location: South of most, North of few | I've gotten in the habit of using my index fingernail. I let it grow longer than the rest, and it's at a point where it feels pretty natural now. |
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Location: NJ | I got one o'dem dare BealPlec's too . . .
It's a GREAT pick, but I only use it on SundayMorning's
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by cliff:
I got one o'dem dare BealPlec's too . . .
It's a GREAT pick, but I only use it on SundayMorning's
(after th'FrenchToast, of course) When your fingers are sticky so you won't lose them? |
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Location: NJ | Sticky & Cinnaminny . . . |
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Location: Utah | I'm liking the Ultex Sharps these days. They play thinner than the regular Ultex, so I use the .73mm for strumming and the 1.13mm for lead. They are just the right amount of pointiness. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Yep, Bill was kind enough to give me one of his signature pics a few years ago.
They are absolutely the best I have ever used (without jumping into BlueChip country)! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | The Bill Kaman PLEC Pick is the best I've ever played, hands down.
Bobbo, nice pic (no pun intended), WOW. |
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Location: NJ | Mine's "shaped", but it doesn't have th'Notch . . .
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Location: NJ | . . . but the Notch'd probably hold more syrup. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Yeah, I was fortunate enough to get a Kaman sig pick at g8rbowl. It's now my "go to" pick. |
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Location: Utica, NY | Dunlop Ultex 1.14 |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | the notch is for those screaching string rattlin slides down the neck on the E string.
When Bill gave it to me I kinda looked at him funny like "WTF....you're giving me a pick that's split?" and he then he swooshed it down the string and I went
WoW....that is so cool. |
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Location: Huntington Beach | I'm liking the Dunlop Ultex too. Sharp or regular in different gauges depending on guitar/song. Which raises a side question - do you play for the feel or the tone? Sometimes the slickest and fastest combo of tools yields the worst tone and vice versa. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I recently switched over to the Cat Tongue pick, after running out of cats. They almost stick to your fingers.
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by stephent28:
the notch is for those screaching string rattlin slides down the neck on the E string.
When Bill gave it to me I kinda looked at him funny like "WTF....you're giving me a pick that's split?" and he then he swooshed it down the string and I went
WoW....that is so cool. Well, I'll be. I thought the notch was there so you could rotate the pick to play leads by just feel instead of having to look at it ... the notch is directly opposite the tip for playing lead. For me, anyway. |
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Location: NJ | I thought it was for scraping dried syrup off th'fork . . . |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Also digs the gunk out of both side of the fret during string changes... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by dark bar:
Yeah, I was fortunate enough to get a Kaman sig pick at g8rbowl. It's now my "go to" pick. Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Well, I'll be. I thought the notch was there so you could rotate the pick to play leads by just feel instead of having to look at it Originally posted by cliff:
I thought it was for scraping dried syrup off th'fork . . . Originally posted by fillhixx:
Also digs the gunk out of both side of the fret during string changes... Well, we all knew it was damn special.
Maybe the man himself will drop by and explain the inspiration behind the brilliance.
Mike, you been awful quite. Surely you got one of these puppies with as many OFC events that you have been a part of. What do you think of it? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by stephent28:
Maybe the man himself will drop by and explain the inspiration behind the brilliance. He has. What Bobbo says. We both heard it at the same time. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | While I like the slightly textured, or maybe it's just a dull finish that makes it feel textured, picks, and I use both the Ovation Fan Club medium and lights depending on my mood...
My go-to pick since they came out in the 80's??? the Adamas Graphite.
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| I've given away dozens of the BK picks, still keep a few for playing out so I don't lose my Red Bear and Blue Chip. They compared favorably with high-end plectra costing a helluva lot more in a blind test.
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Mike, you been awful quite. Surely you got one of these puppies with as many OFC events that you have been a part of. What do you think of it?
Hey, its Easter week: I have had a service almost every night including tonight and Then again on Sunday...goes with the territory...
I do have one but mine is pristine unaltered...I'd love to have one of the modded ones...and I also have several of the Adamas picks but they are just a bit too heavy for my style and my short fingers...nice stuff though...one of my real prize picks is an Ovation pick from the '07 Factory tour that J.B. gave to me...I like that one as well...but I rest my case with the green Mel Bay Originals....I also have some original Shark Fin picks given to me by Mick Jones of Foreigner...very cool picks...D'Andrea re-issued them a few years ago but the originals are better...made by a company in Sweden...I got mine in 1979... |
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| Originally posted by MusicMishka:
Mike, you been awful quite. Surely you got one of these puppies with as many OFC events that you have been a part of. What do you think of it?
Hey, its Easter week: I have had a service almost every night including tonight and Then again on Sunday...goes with the territory...
I do have one but mine is pristine unaltered...I'd love to have one of the modded ones...and I also have several of the Adamas picks but they are just a bit too heavy for my style and my short fingers...nice stuff though...one of my real prize picks is an Ovation pick from the '07 Factory tour that J.B. gave to me...I like that one as well...but I rest my case with the green Mel Bay Originals....I also have some original Shark Fin picks given to me by Mick Jones of Foreigner...very cool picks...D'Andrea re-issued them a few years ago but the originals are better...made by a company in Sweden...I got mine in 1979...
Nice save. |
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Location: NJ | AW |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | WOW. I never knew there was so much to learn about picks |
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Location: NJ | I have been using different picks for a while.
remember a different material gives you a different feel
although lately I do prefer the 3 pointed picks I have come to really like the following made of rosewood ebony bone and horn.
your choice $3 ea 2/ $5 or a sample one of each $20 $7 for the USPS postman flatrate
we can throw these in with your mister big t shirt order ! (burnt orange ones only) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I have a rosewood and an ebony/rosewood pic from Brousard. They sound great and I paid a heck of a lot more than what you're asking.
Killer deal! |
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