Thread: Finger Picks
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Old 10-07-2005, 01:47 PM
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If I may chime in at this late date, allow me to suggest that you might try getting acrylic caps for your picking fingers only (and tips for initial length) and use a thumb pick or cap on the thumbnail, depending on how you hold your thumb. It's unlikely that you'll be biting the nails that have the caps unless you have case hardened teeth.

It's been my experience that those with a softer touch tend to prefer nail caps over fingerpicks, due to the more "intimate" contact with the strings, and they can take some heavy use with steel strings. Another benefit of the caps is that you can use downstrokes with your fingers - frailing, thwacking, or brushing - and they can take it very well. I've not seen many people do this with fingerpicks.

I've never met anyone who went back to fingerpicks after trying the acrylic caps.

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