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Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Fred
Date: 16 Jun 25 - 09:52 AM

BWM -

That's very kind.

I'll take a rain check if I may cos we're leaving today for a fortnight in Cornwall. But I'll PM you my details when we get back.

Thanks mate
Fred

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 16 Jun 25 - 10:20 AM

No probs. I'm away first week of July, back on 4/7.

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Fred
Date: 18 Jun 25 - 09:32 AM

In Cornwall for two weeks, staying at my brother-in-law's, who's been showing off his 1962 Martin D-28.

I'd still rather have my
2024 Martin D-18. But the point of this post is that he has a jarful of Blue Chip picks, thumbpicks and finger picks.

I've tried them all and, to me, they give à dark, warm sound and that's not what I like.

So thanks for the offer, BWM, but I'll stick with my Dunlop Flex X picks. Very kind, though, and much appreciated :)

Fred

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 18 Jun 25 - 10:35 AM

No probs Fred, always happy to help a feller-Yeller-belly! ;-)

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: gillymor
Date: 18 Jun 25 - 12:28 PM

Speaking of pick jars this thread inspired me to go rooting through mine last week and I find a well played-in Wegen 1.2 that I can't stop using.

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Fred
Date: 18 Jun 25 - 02:10 PM

Gilly -

Yes, my brother-in-law has three Wegen's. His have holes arranged in a circle. Good picks.

I think Jed Green sells 'em in the UK or he used to a while back.

Fred

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Fred
Date: 18 Jun 25 - 02:22 PM

I've got three wood flatpicks if any in the UK want 'em.

Just PM me your address and you can have 'em.

First come, first served :)

Fred

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: gillymor
Date: 18 Jun 25 - 02:31 PM

Pete, this one's got nine holes in a diamond formation at the broad end, I think it's their Blueggrass model. It was very easy to hang on to when I was a regular at an outdoor bluegrass jam here in Florida where it can pretty darn humid.

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Fred
Date: 18 Jun 25 - 02:31 PM

I should've added that they are unused.

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: gillymor
Date: 18 Jun 25 - 03:19 PM

Pete? Who the hell is Pete? I guess I was thinking of a playing buddy that I was recently reunited with. Sorry, Fred.

I guess what makes this Wegen special to me is that it's so played in that it's struck a nice balance between bite and glide. Pick choice is such a personal matter.

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: GUEST,Ray
Date: 18 Jun 25 - 04:32 PM

Couple of, possibly disjointed, comments -

1. I get the feeling that these “popular” super expensive picks are a bit like the king’s new clothes.
2. I’ve never got on with the pointy Wegen picks on guitar but I do like the rounded ones on mandolin.
3. Ged Green selling Wegens “a while back”? He retired/gave up lutherie quite a while back - certainly before covid - so I assume he also gave up selling picks.

Carry on!

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Fred
Date: 19 Jun 25 - 11:32 AM

Well I completely got THAT wrong!

I thought my inbox would be bursting with members' addresses for the wood flatpicks.

Solid rosewood, different gauges, warm tone, FREE. No? Sure?? Ok, you don't know a bargain, that's YOUR trouble lol.

Fred

Fred

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Pappy Fiddle
Date: 19 Jun 25 - 08:10 PM

...............I make my own. Several kinds:

-A patch of cowhide or deer skin folded in half with a plastic pick inside. Glue together and trim. This gives a funky muffled sound

-Several scraps of stiff plastic sheet, not too stiff, maybe cut from the lid of a pie container. Here in Colorado, pies come in a pie pan, inside a clear plastic clamshell-like container. I don't know how they come in the UK. Anyway, I cut several pieces about oh, 3 x 1.5 cm and round off one end. The other ends I slide into cuts in a little block of wood and glue them there. Now I have a nifty multipick. Makes a lot of clackity noise on the strings.

-Next comes a simple brush, the kind draftsmen used to use on a drafting board to brush off eraser crumbs. I use this on a 12-string. It makes a sound reminiscent of wind in the rigging. You could experiment with different brushes, and even cut some of the whiskers out to get different effects (not your mother's favorite brush tho)

-with any simple plastic pick, my clumsy fingers will probly drop it, so I drill a hole and thread a little string loop that goes around my finger. So I'm not scrambling around looking for it bent over with my butt toward the audience.

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Fred
Date: 23 Jun 25 - 11:28 AM

Free and looking for a good home:

A set of bone finish Martin Liquid Metal Bridge Pins. Red dot inlays. As new, still in original Martin presentation tin.

PM your name & address and I'll post them off. Sorry, guys, UK only.

First come first served. If no takers, that's fine.

Fred

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Fred
Date: 23 Jun 25 - 11:44 AM

Here's what they did for my 2024 Martin D-18:

More volume, more sustain.

They're 2A, meaning they may sit higher.

About the same weight as brass but without the same, bright sound.

Fred

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Fred
Date: 27 Jun 25 - 02:13 PM

Still got 'em if anyone wants 'em.

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 27 Jun 25 - 03:26 PM

Are they slotted or solid (unslotted)?

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Fred
Date: 27 Jun 25 - 05:02 PM

Slotted

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 28 Jun 25 - 03:19 PM

Aaahh! No good to me then - my guitars use solid pins in slotted holes. Sorry, that’s a shame, I wouldn’t have minded trying them.

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Fred
Date: 28 Jun 25 - 03:38 PM

Turn 'em round so that the slots face away from the bridge saddle?

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 28 Jun 25 - 04:15 PM

That’s often suggested but it’s not a good fit - the missing material allows the pins to be pushed rearwards. I only use unslotted pins.

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Fred
Date: 29 Jun 25 - 05:13 AM

BWM -

No worries.

I'd keep them cos they increase volume and sustain without adding brightness - and, of course, they don't wear. But being 2A, they sit higher.

Sure, over time, they wouldn't, but...well, I use ebony, I'm happy with 'em, so why go to the trouble?

Fred

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 29 Jun 25 - 06:11 AM

They wouldn’t ‘sit higher’ in my guitars because the pinholes have been reamed and tapered to make them fit properly. Pins only ‘sit high’ in Martins because, unlike in the Good Old Days, CFM don’t taper the pin holes, they straight-drill the holes and deliberately make the holes small.

In one of their videos Dave Doll claims it’s done that way ‘in case the holes wear’, but in my opinion (and the opinions of a lot of very Martin-expert luthiers like John Arnold. Bryan Kimsey, et al) it’s BS - they do it that way because it’s a lot quicker (and therefore cheaper!) than taper-reaming the holes and fitting the pins properly. My HD-28V is fifteen years old and has had many, many string changes, and the pins still fit exactly as I fitted them twelve years ago - zero ‘wear’ in the holes.

Here endeth the Gospel according to St. Backwoodsman! :-) :-)

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Subject: RE: Guitar Picks - What's your favourite?
From: Fred
Date: 29 Jun 25 - 06:59 AM

Well, I'll give them to my brother-in-law. With all HIS knowledge, he should get a perfect fit in no time!

And I'll stick to my favourites: ebony, bone, FMI and AA, all of which I have. Plus an order for WBH which should arrive soon.

Fred

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