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Mar 25th, 2012 02:07 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
Does anyone on this Forum use them ? I've tried them on and off for awhile and can't quite get a comfortable feeling pick. Ive used Nationals and Ernie Balls -they both pinch the upper edge of my thumb so after fifteen minutes I take them off. I also file the pick part shorter and round it so its just a rounded nub that sticks out 3/8 or so- the stock ones are way too long and hang up on other strings. I do like the light gauge picks they feel comfy on my thumb but they tend to side off unless you keep your index finger pressed tight against it. So there's some great players that use them and I'm still trying to get It worked out.

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Mar 25th, 2012 03:25 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I use them for acoustic (sometimes) and steel. You have to buy a few different ones and find one that works for you. They take a little getting use to but after a while, like everything else, it's no biggie.

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Mar 25th, 2012 04:01 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I use them occasionally. They felt very odd at first, but that passed. I already do a lot of hybrid picking, so it wasn't that much of an adjustment. Like Urby said, you need to try different styles until you find one that's comfortable for you. Then just hammer away at it for a couple of days.

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Mar 26th, 2012 11:27 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I picked up a few to play around with. I began to experience pinching right at the bottom corner of my thumbnail after barely an hour. I couldn't even bear to keep the pick on much longer after that. The pick size was a medium, but the music store I went to barely had any in any other sizes.

I ended up going online and found a few forums mentioning you could dip the thumb portion of the pick in hot water for 10 seconds and this would allow you to reshape the pick. I boiled up some water, turned off the stove, and proceeded to give it a go. The pick reshaped itself very easily. So easily that I had to go through the process a few different times to get a nice perfect customized fit and feel. Give it a try, you won't regret it.

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Mar 27th, 2012 06:26 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I use the Herco thumbpick. The pick end is shaped like a regular flatpick. The thumb part is very comfortable. I use the heavy or extra heavy. I find them easy to use in a thumbpick/fingers method and easy to switch to a flatpick stlye of play.

Power Trio

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Mar 27th, 2012 07:24 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
i never got along with any of the ones ive tried. so i just use bare fingers when
finger picking and country blues slide work

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Mar 31st, 2012 06:37 PM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
I have modified plastic thumb picks by shortening their length to get closer to my actual thumb position, ( due to years of bare finger picking) and then filing and rounding them to get a good contact and feel.

Haven't been able to get the hang of fingerpicks tho'

weelie

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Apr 2nd, 2012 04:24 AM Edit Profile Print Topic Search Topic
Currently I am in my thumbpick phase. Frees the index finger, sounds good to me.

Fred Kelly (yellow) speed pick now. The problems with a thumbpick are: attack tends to be heavy all the time (this is the top worry for me!), up strokes can be more difficult, false harmonics are more difficult to do, lack of blood circulation to the finger.

Jerry Donahue took up the thumbpick late in life. Uses a wide (Herco?) thumbpick that he files down to be very round, like a shape of coin. He can do all the whistles and everything.

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