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ACOUSTIC POLL: pick, fingers, nails, fingerpicks.

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  • ShadowShadow Frets: 58
    Almost exclusively fingerstyle with flesh and nails, sometimes with a thumbpick. Some hybrid picking with a medium Hawk.
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  • MellishMellish Frets: 945
    @bertie ; - I know exactly the ones you mean =)

    The Speedpick comes in yellow, orange, white, green depending on stiffness. White is good :) 
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  • stickyfiddlestickyfiddle Frets: 24852
    Fleshy fingerpicking or Fender heavy tortoiseshell or occasionally dunlop yellow tortex. 
    The Assumptions - UAE party band for all your rock & soul desires
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  • bertiebertie Frets: 12145
    Mellish said:
    @bertie ; - I know exactly the ones you mean =)

    The Speedpick comes in yellow, orange, white, green depending on stiffness. White is good :) 
    ooh not seen the green,   there's a 3 pack of yellow orange and white - for £3 = £1.50 shipping,  I'll drop one of those
    just because you don't, doesn't mean you can't
     just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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  • earwighoneyearwighoney Frets: 3380
    I largely play fingerstyle and keep my thumb nail a few mm's long, fingernails a little shorter.

    Occasionally, I will get out the fingerpicks if I am in a John Fahey mood.  I use Dunlop brass fingerpicks (the 0.013 ones if my memory serves me right), and I tried about 10 different thumb picks over the years and used a Herco Blue for years before settling on the brass Geipel, which costs over a £1 at Thomann which is one is one of the best sounding ones to my ears.


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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 69426
    Fingers 99% of the time, mostly nails but a bit of the side of my thumb as well. Flatpick 1% of the time - I can't get on with fingerpicks at all.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

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  • DartmoorHedgehogDartmoorHedgehog Frets: 784
    I use nails for picking and strumming.  I think I'm a bit weird in that I do the same for electric guitar as well, even for heavier rock/punk stuff - I just don't like using a pick (or frankly I do a lot of swapping between finger picking and strumming, and could never be arsed to learn a pick palming technique).  I've got quite strong thick nails anyway, but do paint superglue on the first two nails otherwise they do wear quite a bit with heavy strumming.  If I break a nail off I'll stick a false nail on until it grows back long enough (about two weeks).
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  • merlinmerlin Frets: 6199
    edited July 2022
    I hybrid pick using my flesh.  And I just got hold of a Blue Chip BC Jazz 40. Prior to that it was a Dunlop max-grip 1.14
    feedback here
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  • sev112sev112 Frets: 2457
    Finger style pads mostly, plectrum for heavy strumming, what bits of fingernails I have for hybrid

    once in a while use a thumb pick, and strum upwards with it
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  • DavidRDavidR Frets: 595
    edited July 2022
    Finger picks always. Dunlop .018 steel picks on i and m. One of 2 plastic thumbpicks  - soft (Jim Dunlop Red Delrin) or hard (Golden Gate Perloid GP6).

    Two steel/plastic thumbpick combo unchanged since 1974 and have always used Dunlop .018's as the steel fingerpicks. Never been able to use a plectrum, which is, frankly, weird.

    Heroes were of the Rev Gary Davis, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller ilk, which perhaps explains my extremely limited style.
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  • ShadowShadow Frets: 58
    Mellish said:
    @bertie ; - I know exactly the ones you mean =)

    The Speedpick comes in yellow, orange, white, green depending on stiffness. White is good :) 
    The white speedpick is my choice.
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  • AlbertCAlbertC Frets: 855
    Fingerpicking - Fingers only flesh 
    Strumming - Fingers (a bit of the top of nail on the downstrokes)
    Lead/Melody parts - Pick
    My Feedback
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  • bertiebertie Frets: 12145
    Shadow said:
    Mellish said:
    @bertie ; - I know exactly the ones you mean =)

    The Speedpick comes in yellow, orange, white, green depending on stiffness. White is good :) 
    The white speedpick is my choice.
    Ive ordered a trio of the three (still cant seem to find the green ones @Mellish ) 
    just because you don't, doesn't mean you can't
     just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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  • GandalphGandalph Frets: 1513
    @Tannin, it's more of a flick up the strings with my first finger really rather than a full on strum, but yes downstrokes with the thumbpick. 

    @bertie (or anyone else for that matter), I know you're sorted now with your speedpick, but future reference Eaglemusicshop.com is a great place for thumb and finger picks....you can buy most as a single item and postage is cheap. 
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  • bertiebertie Frets: 12145
    Gandalph said:


    @bertie (or anyone else for that matter), I know you're sorted now with your speedpick, but future reference Eaglemusicshop.com is a great place for thumb and finger picks....you can buy most as a single item and postage is cheap. 
    yeah thanks -  just  bloody found em "after" id ordered from ebay.......................which co-incidentally  is "eaglemusicshop"  =)
    just because you don't, doesn't mean you can't
     just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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  • MellishMellish Frets: 945
    @bertie ; - not sure if they still do a green one, but I can't imagine why they  wouldn't.

    Got mine years ago from Fuzz Guitars (no longer trading) :) 
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  • SupportactSupportact Frets: 665
    edited July 2022
    Fingerpick with flesh/nails combination. Nails quite short, just enough to get some on the string.

    Also plectrum for strumming. I went through loads of different ones including some of the expensive ones. Ended up with jim dunlop medium gels. 
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  • MellishMellish Frets: 945
    Spot on @Gandalph.

    Eagle Music stock them :) 
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  • Jimbro66Jimbro66 Frets: 2394
    Finger style with mainly nails and a little flesh. Always some variety of thumb pick depending on what music I’m playing.

    I only used a pick on an acoustic for the couple of years I was into bluegrass and cross-picking. I very rarely strum an acoustic.
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  • LestratcasterLestratcaster Frets: 1024
    Almost all the time I use a pick, the tortex yellow 0.73mm. Rarely do fingerpicking but if I do its the pop folky style stuff using thumb for the bass notes and first two fingers for melody.
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  • SoupmanSoupman Frets: 172

    Fred Kelly speedpick and middle and/or index finger.

    If I break a nail I may use an Alaska pick. I've found Alaska picks are the most natural feeling alternative.

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  • bertiebertie Frets: 12145
    @Mellish ;
    @Gandalph ;
    well that was either fortunate or a bloody jinx.............. broke my thumbnail off last night..................... lets hope they arrive soon !
    just because you don't, doesn't mean you can't
     just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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  • thecolourboxthecolourbox Frets: 9128
    I play both acoustic and electric without a pick, I know how to use one I just don't particularly like the sound for the stuff I play.

    All fingers and no nails on acoustic as I'm a nail biter.

    I use my thumb and index pushed together on electric to kind of use nails as a more percussive effect I guess
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  • guitarjack66guitarjack66 Frets: 1397
    Picks,around 0.73mm or 0.88mm. Also fingerstyle using thumb and fingers,rather than one or another. Cannot get on with thumb picks even though I try regularly.
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  • MellishMellish Frets: 945
    @bertie ; - ouch!

    But I'm sure you'll like the FK Speedpicks. To me, a thumbpick always feels bulky but these don't - much less material :) 
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  • bertiebertie Frets: 12145
    Mellish said:
    @bertie ; - ouch!

    But I'm sure you'll like the FK Speedpicks. To me, a thumbpick always feels bulky but these don't - much less material :) 
    when I say "off"  I mean just down to the bit where its attached............ not the whole nail 
    It split down the middle, at an angle and had to cut it back with clippers to prevent "pain"
    just because you don't, doesn't mean you can't
     just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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  • MellishMellish Frets: 945
    @bertie, ; - try to get a green one as well, if you can, just so you can brag about it if nothing else =) 
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  • bertiebertie Frets: 12145
    Mellish said:
    @bertie, ; - try to get a green one as well, if you can, just so you can brag about it if nothing else =) 
    cant find one anywhere mate  :s
    just because you don't, doesn't mean you can't
     just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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  • MellishMellish Frets: 945
    @bertie ; - can't you? Try Icon Music. I think I got a green one from there for a mate a couple of years ago.

    His name's Tom, give him a bell. He's got a website :) 
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  • westfordwestford Frets: 514
    Fingers, can't get on with a pick and have tried a lot of different ones.
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