Plectrums/Picks - what do you use?

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What implement do you use to hit the strings on your guitar? For most of us this is going to be a triangular-ish bit of plastic, seemingly insignificant to the casual observer, but possibly the component we spend the most time deliberating over in relation to it's size/cost.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Other	2
Nylon - medium	2
Tortex - medium	1
Tortex - light	1
Celluloid - heavy	1
Fingers	1
Felt	0
Skull of a 13th Century Monk	0
Wood	0
Glass	0
Metal	0
Tortex - heavy	0
Celluloid - medium	0
Celluloid - light	0
Nylon - heavy	0
Nylon - light	0

― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Friday, 28 May 2010 12:53 (fifteen years ago)

I use Fender Celluloid Heavy most of the time (for the extra audible percussive attack), and Schaller Nylon Medium occasionally for those quieter moments.

― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Friday, 28 May 2010 12:55 (fifteen years ago)

I exclusively use these:

http://trbazaar.com/dunloptortex88green.jpg

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 28 May 2010 12:57 (fifteen years ago)

don't know if that counts as medium or heavy

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 28 May 2010 12:57 (fifteen years ago)

dunlop tortex light, for rhythm. i use heavy Lexan® dunlop picks otherwise

― lemon lime & butters (electricsound), Friday, 28 May 2010 12:59 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.jimdunlop.com/files/1153434762_STUBBY_474_GRP_463X342.jpg

― lemon lime & butters (electricsound), Friday, 28 May 2010 12:59 (fifteen years ago)

don't know if that counts as medium or heavy

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 28 May 2010 13:57 (4 minutes ago)

.88mm is medium, there are two thicknesses above that.

― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Friday, 28 May 2010 13:04 (fifteen years ago)

I was worried that this thread might be a bit too anal, but there's a fantastically anal piece on Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_pick
I mean, measuring the thickness of a Dunlop Stubby pick with a micrometer gauge?

― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Friday, 28 May 2010 13:10 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.elderly.com/images/accessories/PK/PK421P-73.jpg

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 28 May 2010 17:39 (fifteen years ago)

The Dunlop website describes those as "Deeply responsive, with limitless bile and snap"

― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Friday, 28 May 2010 17:50 (fifteen years ago)

I don't actually have a clue what my guitar picks are made of. I got a job-lot of Paul McCartney promotional picks that appear to be made of, well, flaming pie. Don't even know what brand they are, but they are about medium gauge and they are the best picks I've ever found in my life.

Still got a small bag of them but I've been using them up steadily over the years and I have no idea what I'll ever do when I run out. I hope I die before this happens.

― Using an Aural Exciter in an Orgone Accumulator (Masonic Boom), Friday, 28 May 2010 20:22 (fifteen years ago)

nylon thin (46 mm) to play guitar, medium (i think it might be celluloid?) for bass if i use a pick

― afrika spambotaa and the hulu nation (m bison), Friday, 28 May 2010 20:34 (fifteen years ago)

dunlop nylon standard .88

― goole, Friday, 28 May 2010 20:37 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.dv247.com/assets/products/35065_l.jpg

― Frank Viola (╓abies), Friday, 28 May 2010 22:48 (fifteen years ago)

I don't know how or why I settled on those but they are what I use. Anything thinner feels like I'm playing with a leaf.

Kinda wish they had a sharper point. Dunlop makes ones that do but I have to hold them all dainty at the tips and I constantly find myself picking with my knuckle/finger.

― Frank Viola (╓abies), Friday, 28 May 2010 22:49 (fifteen years ago)

Love these, they're gripped so you almost never end up dropping them (I use the .6mm variety):
http://elderly.com/images/accessories/PK/PKST-60_front.jpg
Also generic Fender thin picks and occasionally a Dunlop Tortex .88mm if I'm playing more aggressively (but I really prefer the tone I get with thinner picks). I tend to fingerpick if I'm playing acoustic but I'll go with a thin pick if I'm feeling strummy. (So who else has a change purse full of guitar picks?)

― spastic heritage, Saturday, 29 May 2010 01:12 (fifteen years ago)

Oh shit, that image is way too big! Sorry.

― spastic heritage, Saturday, 29 May 2010 01:13 (fifteen years ago)

larger than life

― lemon lime & butters (electricsound), Saturday, 29 May 2010 01:25 (fifteen years ago)

COOL as a cucumber

Ah here's the one, the jazz III:
http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/0/5/9/487059.jpg

I want this pick but with more to hold onto. It is my ~D r E a M~

― ╓abies, Saturday, 29 May 2010 01:59 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 30 May 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 31 May 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

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