why, I use b(r)asswood, kat...(made a couple of picks from and old scrap, and I use a Mizrab..(Sitar plectrum) a lot of the time...all the others get caught in the strings the way I play (yes, Bryan Bowers does FINE his way, I just can't figger it out, I play half-way between Maybelle Carter and Kilby Snow)