KingBrill, if the varnish makes your fingers hot, fake nails probably will be even hotter. We don't want you to have claws AND be angry!

Rick & Mick, I suppose I have the benefit of having gotten down with the flat pick after I had the nails. I haven't clicked yet and I just tried to see just how the clicking happens. I remember some teacher I had told me to curl up my fingers when I was fingerpicking and not let 'em flap around in the breeze. I did that when I started playing with the flat pick - you can always uncurl one when you want to nail (sorry) a string with it.

Rick, you probably feel a bit like me trying to learn how to play with fingerpicks, except you already know how to play. The part of your picker that hits the strings is in a slightly different place and is at a different angle. The strings don't slide off as easily as they do with the picks. Hope it works out.