Thumb and Finger Picks

[nordberg]

I’m looking for recommendations on plastic thumb/finger picks please.

[Michael Messer]

Fred Kelly - heavy gauge white Delrin thumbpicks.

www.eaglemusicshop.com/prod/guitar-thumb-picks/fred-kelly-picks-set.htm

Jim Dunlop - white plastic fingerpicks. I use large, not because my fingers are large, but because of the extra length. These pick require shaping to fit you in boiling water with a pair of small pliers.

www.eaglemusicshop.com/prod/guitar-finger-picks/jim-dunlop-white-plastic-fingerpicks.htm

Over thirty years of playing with plastic fingerpicks and thumbpicks, these are without question the best I have found.

Shine On
Michael

[nordberg]

Nov 1, 2020 16:18:54 GMT Michael Messer said:

Fred Kelly - heavy gauge white Delrin thumbpicks.

www.eaglemusicshop.com/prod/guitar-thumb-picks/fred-kelly-picks-set.htm

Jim Dunlop - white plastic fingerpicks. I use large, not because my fingers are large, but because of the extra length. These pick require shaping to fit you in boiling water with a pair of small pliers.

www.eaglemusicshop.com/prod/guitar-finger-picks/jim-dunlop-white-plastic-fingerpicks.htm

Over thirty years of playing with plastic fingerpicks and thumbpicks, these are without question the best I have found.

Shine On
Michael

Ordered! Thank You!

[Michael Messer]

Here's a few pics of what they look like after I have reshaped them. I never reshape the thumbpicks, only the fingerpicks. It takes a bit of practice to get it right and you need to put them in a saucer of really boiling water and then straight under the cold tap.











That thumbpick is a bit too worn down for gigs, so I need to beak in a another. Gigs!!! Haven't done one for eight months.

Should have had a manicure too!

Shine On
Michael

[twang1]

I've been using Herco thumbpicks for 30 years and for the past 15 years (if you have got some nails) Alaska picks.
Since they don't cost a leg you can always experiment and try different picks...
Frank

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Nov 1, 2020 21:32:53 GMT twang1 said:

I've been using Herco thumbpicks for 30 years and for the past 15 years (if you have got some nails) Alaska picks.
Since they don't cost a leg you can always experiment and try different picks...
Frank

Afraid that's the fact of the matter norberg.Tedious though it is the only way to find picks that suit is to experiment.I've got a tin somewhere that's full of rejects. One thing I will say is metal fingerpicks (not on thumb) are much more adaptable.All you need is a pair of pointed nose pliers.

[lonelyjelly]

Where’d Graeme go?

[gaucho]

Those Fred Kelly thumbpicks are super comfortable! I like to reshape the blade with a nail file to make it shorter. For some reason, I tend to hit the coverplate with it if I don't shorten them.

[resonatadog]

I have two sets of three of these Fred Kelly picks that do not suit me, completely unused , the white large ones. I like large golden gate thumb picks, that sadly only pop up sometimes unless i splash out nearly £30 from the USA for a dozen. Anybody interested £2.50 including post payable to paypal PM me I'll check back in a couple days

[lonelyjelly]

Yes please mate, I’ll take em

Best

Lew

[blueshome]

I’ve being using Fred Kelley speed picks for some years combined with Dunlop .018 metal finger picks n my 6 strings. For the 12, I find a Dunlop plastic thumb pick a little better.

[Stevie]

I received this through the post this morning.

www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=124105130431&_trksid=m5467.l1311

It doesn't feel very substantial so it could be a fleeting romance, but it does "work" for me (I have tried with thumb picks.) What I mean there is that it's quite easy to adapt to it. You have to measure around your thumb at the cuticle end of the nail using some thread because they are a bespoke product. I can't tell what it's made from- although it "looks" like bone, it could very well be some plastic. I like to think it's from a recycled 'roo burger!

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