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Fred Kellys
I have tried all the above over the last 30 years. The fake nails messed with my natural nails too, but it took about 10 years. Plus the glue ons are a big pain when one comes loose at a gig!
I found I really like the Fred Kelly Freedom picks. The clear ones seem to put out a bit more treble to me… but good luck finding one on the floor at a gig! They seem sized small. If you want Larger call them and they can make some. Which they will still label L. Hahaha I only use one, on my index, and a Dunlop large on my thumb. My other fingers join the dance too, most of the time, but more than one fingerpick is just too fiddley for me. One cool thing about the FKs is you can strike the strings in both directions. Major plus for me. They need to be a bit tight, and I find it is good to take ‘em off for a tune once in awhile. Which does give me a different and more mellow tone. And, I too have found a dab of spit holds em well. Works on a bottleneck type slide too! Just my take Have fun experimenting! Paul
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Runner up is the Alaska pick set. But the Kalena are my new instant favorites. Thank you! =K |
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Good to hear it!
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I write this onlt because I'm concerned that you might damage your fingertips and nails. The action of the "naked" finger, or nail is upward and so the finger picks are used with the blade resting on the pad (where your finger print is) i.e. the tortoise coloured picks are upside down, and I can't imagine how you could play easily the way you show. We have a great finger picker who comes to my club who tried the finger "clogs" once when he broke one of his nails. It was not a great success and, yes, they seemed to mute his tone considerably. I have a set of the Alaska picks - I have no idea why. I found them positively painful, and potentially dangerous to your nails. I only ever used finger picks (propiks) on Dobro and Hawaiian, and I have thick and fast growing nails - but I know that many finger pickers play with just the flesh of fingers and thumb, which I guess will harden like the fretting fingers after a short while.
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I have tried a dozen or more different styles and makes of fingerpicks, and I've come back to the old standard Dunlop/National-style metal picks. I've settled on Dunlop .025 brass picks. For my thumb I use Dunlop Ultex picks.
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I use nails/flesh, never could bet use to fingerpicks, but probably never gave them good try out. I'd do a few plucks and decide these are not for me.
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THIS ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
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