Wall of Mouths

What a cool thread, why did no one think of this before?! :)

When I play guitar I stick with the basic Gibson picks that you can buy just about anywhere. Prefer the equilateral shaped ones, and either medium or heavy. Oh, and I used to use these really cool transparent purple picks that were ridiculously chunky, but with curved edges front to back. They had a really cool attack, but it was almost impossible to play more than three strings at once with ;) I seem to have lost those now. When playing bass (which I mostly stick to now) , I use my fingers. Here are my two favourites: ;)

(Before changing the message boards’ software in August 2007 this post had a file attachment, which may return in the future)

Use green Dunlop Tortex .88 for guitar and blue Dunlop Tortex 1.0 for bass (or fingers - depends what i’m playing and how lazy i feel)

used to use one of those for bass - but they do about as much good to the strings as Ron Atkinson does to race relations…

Its not the kind of things those guitar shop types sit round chatting about… but it is surprising how peoples tastes vary.

There is a guitar shop nearby that ‘invented’ the round plectrum - a plastic circle with a hole in that looks like a washer… it is supposed to improve your grip but cant ever remember this being an issue for myself.

Just remembered I’ve got this new really weird one. It’s three different thicknesses, depending on which edge you use, and has a point on it for pinched harmonics, plus a sort of jagged edge, which makes chords jangle a bit more. And a thing for getting stones out of horses’ hooves.

Umm, it _might_ be… It does look a bit like a shark-fin, but I’ve seen others that also look like that, and aren’t nearly so comprehensive. I can however confirm that it is in fact useless.

Plectrum heaven?

Most probably they got to the stray picks home. If no one collects them, they’re given to Status Quo. That’s right, they get put down down, deeper and down.

:D Bad? I’m writing that one down, my friend. You never know when a joke like that could be used again…

Unfortunately it would take quite a bit of effort to set that one up… Casually bringing plectrums into a conversation aint easy, y’know… (Believe me, I’ve tried.)

(fingers crossed about Blankety-Blank, though, eh?)

Umm… no… *worried look*

*takes another step further back*

Honestly, no I never did. Just the all too healthy callouses.

Sorry! :D

i saw a fantstic picture of the thumb belonging to the guy from Crowded House. He had taken off a whole load off skin because the tour was so long and his thumb was just red and bleeding, it looked really painful but he said he made some replacement skin every night using a mix of Vinegar and Super Glue. don’t fancy that myself. :eek:

I use either a thick purple Jim Dunlop pick of a heavy Fender pick I bought months ago. I also got hold of the new Pickboy carbon nylon picks and tried them for a bit, but they felt strange when picking if you know what I mean!

I did have a 3mm stubby a while back but gave up with it, it made my thumb cramp!!!

Back to my les paul then…

seeya!!

Mark

Title: Prefered plectrums

To be quite honnist, i use any old plectrum. However, i don’t always use 1. I tend to find it easy to finger pick when it comes to picking the strings. I only use the plectrum for strumming.

Idlevice2 wrote:

Anyone else get this problem?

Not usually, though I do have an ‘heirloom’ of sorts: it was an almost new pick, and I played one Cradle of Filth song (from vempire, don’t remember the names anymore) and when I’d finished, the pick was a centimetre shorter and there were bits of plastic ‘dust’ over everything. Was pretty crazy (imagine the pickboy pictured above, with the tip shaved off to where you can see the grip. From one song.) :cool:

But normally I’m not that heavy handed. Swear. :)

No-one else use cut up old credit cards? They don´t last long, but they sound great…