fingerpicks from the '60's'

Subject: fingerpicks from the '60's'
From: GUEST,Joeler
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 01:39 PM

Does anybody know where I can get hold of some plastic fingers that used to be very common in the 1960's? They are long and have a slight crease running the length of them. They were great for fast picking. They didn't wrap around you fingertip, but instead just kind of stuck straight out. I have one left and I have tried everywhere to get some. Yes I have modified dunlops, but they are still not the same. Thanks in advance for your help. Joeler

Subject: RE: fingerpicks from the '60's'
From: canoer
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 10:01 PM

Subject: RE: fingerpicks from the '60's'
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 10:52 PM

Can't help ya with the plastic FINGERS Joel, but picks? Maybe. Here's a little trick I've used before and it works!

Get a phone book that lists a few small town music stores (mom and Pop places). They often have stock that's thirty years old and may be able to gladly send you a bag of them. Takes about an hour of your time. Usually I've gotten lucky in the first couple of calls. I was looking for "reefer picks".

Rick

Subject: RE: fingerpicks from the '60's'
From: Grab
Date: 05 Apr 00 - 07:53 AM

You can get metal ones quite easily from any guitar shop - they're used by pedal-steel players.

Grab.

Subject: RE: fingerpicks from the '60's'
From: joeler
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 03:11 PM

I met fingerpicks too Rick. Gotta stop drinking beer when I write these things. I'll going to Florida soon though. I'll stop in small towns and check the small Mom and Pop guitar stores for the picks like you suggested.

Subject: RE: fingerpicks from the '60's'
From: ddw
Date: 07 Apr 00 - 01:17 AM

Joeler, I know exactly what picks you're looking for and I wish you luck; I started a thread about a year ago asking for them and it went nowhere. I've checked every music store I've found from Chicago to Toronto and south to North Carolina and I've gotten nothing but blank stares when I showed them the broken one I used to carry. I finally had to give up and learn to use metal Dunlops. Different feel, different sound, but the best I can do. If you do locate any of the ones you're looking for, please, please please let me know. I'd order a gross of them tomorrow!

david

Subject: RE: fingerpicks from the '60's'
From: Art Thieme
Date: 08 Apr 00 - 11:52 PM

Are you thinking of the HERCO plastic finger picks? I used 'em for years. Came in little plastic boxes that fit into a larger shop display. These picks would stay good for a long while---unless you rolled over on em while they were in your pocket---or just got weakened by contant on-putting and off-pulling until they were brittle. When I couldn't find 'em in stores any more, I went to the Dunlop metal picks and used those the rest of my picking years. But nothing gave you a mellow sound like the HERCO plastic finger picks. Metal picks always had a strange clangy metallic attack sound when the pick contacted a metal string that I never really got past.

Art Thieme