Perfect Touch Picks

Tony Glassman · Post by **Tony Glassman** » 30 Sep 2008 9:47 pm

I agree w/ the nay-sayers.......I had a set fitted by Rusty @ the Dallas show and tried them out on various guitars. They fit way too high on my finger and felt clunky.......Each to their own!

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 1 Oct 2008 6:17 am

I sent mine back to Rusty and he gave me my money back.

Arty Passes · Post by **Arty Passes** » 1 Oct 2008 10:20 pm

Love mine - comfy and easy on the cuticles.

Don Brown, Sr. · Post by **Don Brown, Sr.** » 4 Oct 2008 9:46 am

How many here answering, (comparing) have more than at least, 30 years of playing under their belt, that started out using the "National, Pat. Number: 1787136 U.S.A.?

I don't think, I could ever get use to using anything else. But then too, why would anyone want to use anything else?

Tom Buur · Post by **Tom Buur** » 13 Oct 2008 9:05 am

Sorry to add another -1 here.

Reading this thread I ordered a set and received them today. The worst picks I have tried. For some unknown reason the pulp of my middle finger keeps catching the neighboring string. And judging from pictures, the picks have the right size and have been mounted as they should.

As a beginner I have struggled for months now with right hand technique (I have played fingerstyle 6-string for 40 years). I even got the Jeff Newmann video "The Right Hand Alpha" and because of this I have struggled with National picks for months. The just for fun I tried some Dunlops - and how embarrasing - these disrecomended picks works better for me than any of the other.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 13 Oct 2008 9:45 am

Tom,
I have used and been satisfied with Dunlops for years.

Don Brown, Sr. · Post by **Don Brown, Sr.** » 13 Oct 2008 10:27 am

Question! Do the new Dunlops have a patent on them yet? The reason I'm asking is, I just found two brand new sets that are gauged.. One set is .020, and the other two are .025; marked as follows:

Dunlop
Pat. Pend
.020
U.S.A.

Dunlop
Pat. Pend
.025
U.S.A.

And I know I've not bought any picks in the last 30 years or so. I use to buy the nationals, by the dozen, as when a player would come in and not have his picks, I'd reach inside my seat and bring out a new pair. And, they'd usually walk out with them, after shaping them the way they wanted. (My treat for getting paid while sitting out a set or two).

Don Brown, Sr. · Post by **Don Brown, Sr.** » 13 Oct 2008 10:29 am

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Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 13 Oct 2008 10:45 am

All the Dunlops I've seen just say: Pat. Pend.
Erv

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 13 Oct 2008 12:43 pm

Hi Don, there is a difference between the old Dunlops and the newer ones.. the old ones have a different configuration of holes on the wraps.
Bo

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 13 Oct 2008 1:00 pm

Bo is correct.
I use one of each in order to keep them separate.
One has two more holes in the band than the other.

Don Brown, Sr. · Post by **Don Brown, Sr.** » 13 Oct 2008 1:07 pm

Hey Bo, I just pulled one back out to check it out. These each have Two Holes on each side of the finger wrap, and a Single hole down on the pick portion, just below the U S A, and I can't see any periods, between the U S A, only a space between each.

They seem to be very bright (they shine). I just put on a pair, for the heck of it, and be darn if they aren't totally comfortable without ever bending them. And yet, I'm sure neither pair has ever been used.

So what are they? The old style or the newer? Can't really be the newer, unless someone gave them to me as a gift, I didn't know about..

Michael Hardee · Post by **Michael Hardee** » 13 Oct 2008 1:20 pm

I've been using the same set of Perfect Touch fingerpicks for over a year now. I play dobro and pick hard. They stay on great and never hurt. No complaints at all, I'm very happy with them. Have not tried the thumbpick.

Gary Cosden · Post by **Gary Cosden** » 13 Oct 2008 3:50 pm

I used Dunlops for over 25 years and I have used Perfect Touch for the last year or so. I can not see ever going back to Dunlops. I love Perfect Touch picks. I have tried both the round and flat and I much prefer the flat. Having said that I must ad that I am not a fan of Rusty's thumb picks. They seem to interfere with my palm blocking technique. I never really realized before I tried the thumb pick that I am using the entire edge of my hand from my thumb all the way across my little finger when I "palm" block and Rusty's thumb pick wraps around the thumb in such a way that for me, at least, it interfered.

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 13 Oct 2008 11:05 pm

old style

new style

I bought a handfull of them from ebay just to get a couple of the old style ones and re sold the rest.
It was like insurance cause I'm still using a set that are 30 years old. Maybe I should just rotate a new pair in.
That said I would like to try a pair of the p-touch piks and a pair of the pro piks with single wraps.

Tom Buur · Post by **Tom Buur** » 14 Oct 2008 8:54 am

I spent more time trying to make the Perfect Touch picks work. Then one on the index finger is okay, but I cannot make the one one the middle finger work. I have even painted the contour of the Dunlop pick on my finger to match the Perfect Touch to it, but no matter what I have tried so far it feels wrong.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 14 Oct 2008 9:10 am

Tom,
Don't sweat it, just send 'em back.

Don Brown, Sr. · Post by **Don Brown, Sr.** » 14 Oct 2008 1:20 pm

Well, I guess I'm just old because I realize prices raise, but I can't see paying that amount of money, for any pick going. Unless! They'd also play in place of my fingers too.