A thumb pick worth trying

[JohnW63]

I read about them in another forum. Black Mountain Picks
https://blackmountainpicks.com/

I different way of putting tension on the pick to clamp on your thumb. They use a spring hinge. I got a sample pack yesterday. No matter where I put it on my thumb it feels comfortable. I got the standard tension version. They have an extra tight version for smaller thumbs. The pick half is shaped like a normal flat pick, so they adverse you can grip it like a flat pick when you need to play like it's a flat pick.

I found the light gauge one too thin. You can here the pick click on the string too much for me.

Visually, it takes a bit of time to get used to seeing that hinge on your thumb. I'm also used to more pressure on my thumb, from the plastic ones, so I started out wondering if they would stay in place. So far, so good.

Give them a look, if your a thumb pick player still looking for the right pick.

 

[walrus]

I tried some thumb picks a while go, but could not get used them after decades of flat picking. But the Black Mountain picks were the only ones that I liked! The hinge makes a difference...

walrus

 

[HeyMikey]

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I read about them in another forum. Black Mountain Picks
https://blackmountainpicks.com/

I different way of putting tension on the pick to clamp on your thumb. They use a spring hinge. I got a sample pack yesterday. No matter where I put it on my thumb it feels comfortable. I got the standard tension version. They have an extra tight version for smaller thumbs. The pick half is shaped like a normal flat pick, so they adverse you can grip it like a flat pick when you need to play like it's a flat pick.

I found the light gauge one too thin. You can here the pick click on the string too much for me.

Visually, it takes a bit of time to get used to seeing that hinge on your thumb. I'm also used to more pressure on my thumb, from the plastic ones, so I started out wondering if they would stay in place. So far, so good.

Give them a look, if your a thumb pick player still looking for the right pick.

Interesting approach. I hate wearing finger and thumb picks.

I don’t generally wear thumb picks but when I do…

I use Fred Kelly speed picks

Stay picking my friends!

 

[walrus]

I knew I mentioned my thumb picking attempts with BMTPs before!

https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/index.php?threads/black-mountain-thumb-pick.204686/#post-1911701

walrus

 

[JohnW63]

Those Fred Kellys look interesting, but very skinny pick.

 

[dreadnut]

They not cheap...

 

[zulu]

I'd like a pick with a hinge, but one that you could flip the pick out of the way - then thumb pick with just the thumb. It could even ride on the index finger-if it could flip out of the way for fingerpicking. Anybody seen one like that?

 

[JohnW63]

Dreadnut,

You are right. I think it's a one man production company and it has moving parts that no other thumb pick has. Kinda' like those Thalia capos. Small company trying another way to do a common thing. They aren't at the low end of the capo price range.