Common pick materials - relative hardness to gauge scale?
Hello,
As obviously there are many factors contributing to the feel and sound of a given pick, I'm curious, how do you guys think, could we invent a relation between pick hardness, its gauge and the material it's made of?
An example: I want something that would be similar in flexibility to a .73mm ultex pick. If i go for nylon as the material, maybe 1mm would suffice?
Given enough opinions we could establish a rule of thumb: in order to find a similarily hard/flexible pick but from another material, you have to go up/down a certain amount of gauges (in my example it would be +2 gauges for nylon to match the hardness of ultex)
I know there are various gauge scales of picks made by different manufacturers, but I believe it's not that big of a deal.
Of course I can tell some differences myself, but such measurements are always subjective and it would be cool if it was agreed upon by a collective.
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