Pick your Pick

[Firebird211]

Here's a subject I have never seen anyone talk that much about here or if it really matters to most.  The first pick I ever used was a medium Fender pick, someone left on a classroom desk when I was a freshman in high school.  I never got a chance to use it until my senior year when I bought my first guitar.  I would have to say out of all the picks I have tried I just prefer those Fender mediums for whatever reason.  Now I spray paint a light dusting of truck bed liner on a few of my Fender mediums to help with the grip, and I wouldn't use anything else to this day.  I still loose them a lot, getting lost in the washer and dryer, and I suspect my cats run off with them too.

 

[mayfly]

I've tried every possible pick, and my pick of choice has varied through the years.

These days I use Jim Donlop Tortex - the orange ones.  These seem to be the best for me at the moment.

 

[erogenousjones17]

I swear by those black 1.0 mm Dunlop Nylons. The thickness is just right and the textured face makes 'em nice and grippy. They're perfect once they get a little worn and rounded. I've tried to get into Jazz IIs and IIIs, but I just can't; they're too small for my big stupid fingers.  :laughing7:

 

[Funky Phil]

Dava control picks...the original green ones
I've ound that once you get used to the way you can control the pick "stiffness", there is no going back!

 

[lafromla1]

Dava control picks...the original green ones
I've found that once you get used to the way you can control the pick "stiffness", there is no going back!

I have been using the red Dava picks and I really like the rubber grip part since I have a tendency to lose them or have them spin on me.

 

[jwl68th]

Fender mediums  (tortise only for some stupid reason).

 

[elfro89]

.88 tortex, i swear by them, the tone you get from the material is unmatched for hard rock and soloing. I like the 3mm stubby jazz picks for jazz funily enough. other then that i also like using my fingers  :icon_thumright:

 

[Firebird211]

Fender mediums  (tortise only for some stupid reason).

Those seem most common, but recently I have been rocking out with abalone and blue pearloid ones.  Mediums have just the right feel and flexibility for me too. :icon_thumright:
The first medium pick I had was yellow, and I rounded the crap out of that thing playing, but now like most they get lost before that happens.

 

[Jusatele]

thumb and 3 fingers

 

[erogenousjones17]

thumb and 3 fingers

Kinky.    :icon_jokercolor:

 

[richship]

Mostly fingers lately, but I bought a bag of 100 random picks off ebay a couple years back. I just use whatever seems appropriate at the time. Also bought a couple rubber ones that can be used to dull the attack.

 

[Jusatele]

I am not a proponent of chickin pickin, I was forced into it, I have an injury to my thumb and have no feeling in the end digit, so I cannot hold a pick, it keeps flying from my hand, so I learned I could use the thumb, like a pick you do not feel the pick on the string, but the pressure of pick on the fingers, I can feel that higher up on the thumb, I think guys who use a pick correctly are much faster than I am. But you do what you can.

 

[ORCRiST]

When I first started playing (15) I always used the Tortex green. 20+ years later I use the Tortex yellow now...

ORC

 

[Rickgrxbass]

I'm digging the Dunlop Ultex picks right now; 1.0 mm for bass and 0.72 mm for guitar, although I've been known to use acetal teardrops on 6-string.
The ultems are closest to what I imagine natural tortoiseshell would be

 

[JamesL]

Dunlop Jazz III in tortex, or nylon, or max grip... Whatever, as long as it's a jazz III  :headbang:

 

[B3Guy]

Fender mediums  (tortise only for some stupid reason).

Those seem most common, but recently I have been rocking out with abalone and blue pearloid ones.  Mediums have just the right feel and flexibility for me too. :icon_thumright:
The first medium pick I had was yellow, and I rounded the crap out of that thing playing, but now like most they get lost before that happens.

mediums here as well, although, I have found that sometimes the tortoise/perloid ones tend to fall apart a little (mebe becouse of the swirly mixed plastic?) anywho, I just use plain ones, that or my fingers (or a penny from my wallet :icon_biggrin

 

[JamesL]

You carry pennies in your wallet?

 

[ledzepplin6914]

dunlop stubby 3.0 mm, i like a rigid pick that doesnt have much surface area

 

[ptirman]

These in medium. Go figure. I think they bring good luck.

 

[Alfang]

I find the perloid picks fall apart real quick too, wich is a bummer 'cus I like the look. I have picks all over the house, in every thickness and material, I use whatever I find first.