Always nice to know that my thoughts are appreciated--as I said, GUEST, I am still waiting for you to contribute something---and, sadly, we don't know that any of the contributions here have helped the original poster, because she doesn't seem to have come back--

JustaPicker did a thread on Travis picking a while back that gave a good technical explanation as to how it works--generally it is done with the thumb and index finger only--I tried to find it, but the Mudcat Search seems to be down just now--