Dunlop plastic fingerpicks

[snakehips]

Hi there !

I can't remember if I've posted this before.

I switched from Jim Dunlop metal fingerpicks, to Dunlop plastic fingerpicks years ago.
I've always used plastic thumbpicks.

Anyway, the thumbpicks always wear out fast enough, but for some reason, the fingerpicks last for ages.
So, I buy thumbpicks regularly, but not very often do I have to buy new fingerpicks.

The last few times I have gone to local guitar shops for them, I find the Dunlop fingerpicks seem to be made of slightly thinner plastic, not rigid enough. And even the Large sized ones are too small for my wee fingers.
I can't seem to find anywhere that stocks the "normal" Dunlop fingerpicks like they used to make them (even up to a few years ago).
The new ones are rubbish !
I'm running out of decent plastic fingerpicks and frightened I'll lose the last 3 or 4 decent ones I have left.

Have other people noticed this too ??

[washboardchris]

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I suppose if the thumb picks are constantly hitting wound strings but the finger picks hit mostly plain then that would account for the uneven wear. Also the thumb picks may strike the strings with more force. Just my tuppence worth--I'm a plastic thumb and metal finger man myself.

[snakehips]

Once you see the Duco paint coming off your Duolian, when you let someone else play it who wears metal finger picks, you wanna snatch the guitar back off 'em !

I did that myself to a mint Duolian, when I still wore metal fingerpicks, in a guitar shop down south (Waterlooville, near Southhampton, I think it was).
In the 45mins I played the guitar in the shop (circa 20yrs ago), I wore a 1p sized patch of Duco off the brass coverplate.
At that point, I knew I had to buy the guitar, as the shopkeeper would have probably made me anyway, ha ha !!

That was enough to make me try out plastic finger picks - which I couldn't manage to get used to for a few more years.
One day, it just "clicked", and I could wear them.
Used to go to a weekly acoustic blues jam session, and everyone was asking me how my guitar had suddenly got louder than it usually was at the jam sessions. Plastic fingerpicks was the only thing I had changed.

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Guilty as charged!

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