The Steel Guitar Forum

Hi all,

I saw a post somewhere about a unique fingerpick that has a ridge that circles the outside edge of the finger, leaving the fleshy part of the fingertip exposed in order to facilitate blocking.

I can't find the name of them - anyone? I wanna try some.

Thanks in advance!

Marke,
I think they are Pro Piks
http://www.guptillmusic.com/propik/fingertone.html

Hope the link works.
Billy

BINGO!

That's the one. Thanks Billy!

Marke...Available at "Elderly Instruments" also.

I use National's . (NP2)
Also National white plastic thumb.
Took a while to "bend" them the right way, but once I got the fit right, I gave up the others.
Rick

I tried those propicks but went back to the NP2 Nationals and a blue Herco thumbpick.

Thanks David!

Hey Rick and Randy - what didn't you like about the ProPics?

Just curious.

I am a long time bottleneck player, and use my bare fingers to block. I'd like to try doing that with PSG, but I don't want to lose the attack I get from a fingerpick. I saw these as a possible compromise...

I played slide for many years,(bottleneck), with a flat pick first, and then 2 dunlops, & thumb. (on a six string standard)
When I began palm blocking,(PSG) "raising my knucke", (Newman style), the dunlops "wrap around", caught on other strings, due to their design. The Nationals didn't.
On guitar, I used 13's & 15's, while on PSG I use 25's.
Never tried the others,(pro-pics) since the Nationals seemed to "work for me". But... "whatever it takes", is my concept
Rick.

I bought a pair about 6 months ago that have hardly been used and still in the original box.

I'm accustomed to .015 thickness and the ProPicks are .025 I think. I just haven't been able to get comfortable with them.

I'm sending you a PM.....

I play with light gauge picks myself.

Marke -

Studied the classic guitar back in the 60's. Thought I'd use that same "close-in" technique for the steel. Try as I might, I couldn't get a clean tone from those ProPiks without a scraping sound. Could be that I didn't give it enough of a chance. Abandoned them for the "angled" ProPiks with the traditional pick end. I'm somewhat of a happy camper.

Hey everyone - thanks for the info.

Richard, I saw the "angled picks, too. That was intriguing. Thanks for the note.