Fun thread
I fell in love with the gray Dunlops .60mm, and white (ultra thin .38mm), and black (thick 1mm) a long time ago, back in 1980 when I suddenly started letting out my own inner Angus... I always held the gray Dunlop sideways by the grippy part, only the feather edge of the pic does most of the contact, 80's pinch harmonics come to mind.
If that wasn't a grippy enough pic, try one of those thick gray Hercos, if they still make them?
I've been using the ultra thin lately on acoustic sometimes, usually when I hear a guy playing the mandolin across the room and suddenly get the urge to play mandolin solos on the guitar. Sounds amazing, on a Guild anyway
So I make sure one of those is in a my acoustic case when I go out and play. Let out your inner Bouzouki
We should have just picks thread, or maybe I should start showing pictures of my picks, as if I had the time... but I've been collecting random cool ones for a long time, I have a goodly stash of old tortoise and other interesting ones.
I need a lightbox or similar to pass light through the pics from underneath, otherwise it's difficult to show the beauty of some of these old picks.
These days I find strumming with fingers to be capable of so many more subtle nuances and there's nothing to drop.
I'm also almost into my first year of fingerpicking, and I'm starting to finally understand chords/notes, and I'm coming up with my own patterns like mad, as well as still strengthening the basic rudiments.
So pics are of no use to me, unless they say Guild on them, like the giant one I got with a NOS Guild dreadnaught case (with purple interior and red accent, D25 Cherry looks stunning in it) from Clark's Music in Trenton NJ. Case must be for a D50, arched top, more latches than a medieval chastity belt, a bit too fancy a case for a D25 actually.
Even though nowadays I just look at them and watch them gather dust, I'm probably the only one here who has a book about picks next to his pillow... Picks! The Colorful Saga of Vintage Celluloid Guitar Plectrums by Will Hoover. In this book you'll notice that lots of old picks had a thin slice of cork glued to one side, some times a tiny cork donut. Get those old wine corks out and slice up some grippers, leather punch for the center hole. Some picks also had tiny cutouts in the sides to accommodate tiny rubber bands.
I also have quite a few vintage nickel fingerpicks, and swirloid plastic thumbpicks but I've never warmed up to those, they don't stay on my fingers and have never been worth the bother. I can do quite well with fingers playing slide, after going through a vintage nickel Dobro/12 string/slide summer back in 2016, when I dipped into the Guild waters with the D4-12, and the curious case of the pickguard fireball...