New Pick Day!

[Chuckles]

Stopped by the local music shop and picked up a few different picks to try on electric since I’ve been surviving on my .73mm max grips that I use for acoustic for waaaaay too long.




So far the Jazz III max grip is the leader, just felt so good when I played. The 206 is intriguing, not entirely sure how I feel about it. The Jazz III XL is fine. The .88’s play about how I expected, partially got them because I can also try the on the acoustic and see about bumping up when I get my next pack of picks.

Anyway, do any of ya’ll have a particular pick you like?

Oh, and that’s not your run of the mill Altoids tin. Charlie Brown peppermints tin FTW.

 

[teleme01]

I got these thick wood picks, and of course there is the trustworthy jazz 3. I never used the wooden ones but now I have to compete a little for volume (accoustic band) and I am giving them a try.

 

[Chuckles]

I was tempted to get some wood ones just for the heck of it, but I decided to keep the trip under $5. Will probably get one at some point, if nothing else to complement the metal pick I have (which I genuinely have no idea how I got).

The 206 has grown on me quite a bit, gave it a good 45 minutes to an hour test drive this evening. Definitely a race between that and the smaller Jazz 3 right now.

current prediction: I’ll end up liking the feel and tone of both and get a pack of each.

 

[mrpinter]

I'm a pick fanatic. I collect them, and use quite a few different ones depending on the guitar I'm playing or my mood. Lately my favorite pick company - at least for electrics - is a company in North Carolina called Honey-Picks. they have picks of many different materials; from relatively cheap ones out of Delrin, to acrylic, to Casein, to high performance thermoplastics like Torlon and PEEK (which are used in space program applications, and are so tough and temperature tolerant bearings are made from some of them). These high performance plastics are extremely expensive, and so are the picks - up to $40 per pick. The upside is they never wear out. Honey picks are generally thicker than "regular" picks. None of their picks are molded, but are laser cut - except the high performance plastics, which the laser won't cut so they're cut out with a mini CNC machine; and all their picks are hand beveled. I use 3mm thickness picks for electrics, as a rule. But for acoustics I am more conventional, with picks under 1mm.

Here are some of my picks

Electric rotation (from upper left clockwise): Kirinite (a hardened acrylic); a material they keep secret and just call "Beekeeper's Stash"; Torlon; Kirinte; PEEK plastic; and in the center - Casein. I favor their multiple hole grip, but am trying out the honeycomb grip at a top.


This is my most recent pick purchase: made of PEI, another high performance thermoplastic


I keep my electric picks in this "secret box" my wife gave me for a birthday:


My acoustic pick rotation (clockwise from bottom): nitrocellulose; delrin; PEEK plastic and the logo picks are probably delrin.


I keep my acoustic picks in this little Altoids tin


I became obsessed with, guitar pics when I was doing some photography, video and advertising work for the owner of Gravity picks (I still use some Gravity picks - they're my second favorite company).