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I likme these. And I bought them many many years ago.



http://elderly.com/accessories/items/CB1941.htm

Banjer picker Sammy Shelor has a line of stainless steel finger picks. I don't know how much luck you would have re-shaping them, but if so, they should last a long, long time.

Check the supply houses like first quality music, janet davis, elderly etc. for stock as they are generally sold out. I think they are just called Sammy Shelor finger picks.

Roger Francis wrote:http://www.texasmusicsupply.com/jffingerpicks.html

Are those the Jeff Newman picks?

The ACRI picks come in stainless:
http://jdmc.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen ... rt=&q=acri

They're certainly the last picks I'll buy, the band shape eliminates all the concerns about fit and comfort that other picks raise. The tips do need to be reshaped from "banjo" to "steel" shape, as do they all, IMO. Manufacturers try to be all things to all people.

Yes Chris they are the JF picks, I've tried a lot of different picks and these stay put no matter how hard you want to pick and no issues with wear, probably not for every body but it's all I'm ever going to use

Earnie Ball makes those.They call those pickies.Thats what I use.

Another vote for the Perfect Touch picks.

sorry - don't know how that posted twice

I like the Kyser picks.

http://www.banjo.com/SearchResults.asp? ... er&Submit=

Besides having finger bands that are twice as wide as Dunlops (three times as wide as Nationals, Kysers etc.!) the Acri picks have blades that are about 1 1/2 times the width of the Dunlops. And real long too. If long evenings of snipping away at stainless steel is where your pleasure tends, you would have a really great time with those....

The finger bands are so comfortable, it just eliminates all the rosin/eyeglass nosepad/spit/Elmer's/heatshrink goofballing entirely. No need. There are a couple of reasons I can think of that they haven't stormed the castle & put Dunlop, Kyser, and National out of business. One, brass, or steel - no nickel silver. Two, the blades are impossible to use without some basic surgery - banjo players.... They're sort of like the modern Dunlops, in that the blade sticks out straight and has a lovely spoon shape. But there's even more of it, the first thing I do is slice about 1/8" off the tips then attack them with both needlenose & roundnose jewelry pliers. Destroy the lovely spoon, flatten them out and curve them up around the fingertip more. Even if you like your picks to stick out some... umm, not that much.



Three, this "Gord Acri" fellow is apparently kind of a mountain man or something, he rides his burro into Tombstone every spring & fall for a bag of flour & gunpowder, drops off some picks at Janet Davis & Elderly Music then he's gone again... banjo players.

Use a rod smaller than your finger, Clamp the rod in a vice and work the wings very carefully with a small hammer to fit and not hurt your fingers. Work slow and make them round not sharp bending in the holes. An old Army Engineer trick to polish metal quickly is put the polishing compound on a piece of Brown Grocery Bag. Works quickly without a lot of work, They finish with a cloth or paper towel. Good Luck and Happy Steeling.

I'm using my propik Dobro picks on my PSG. I'm happy with them, but as a newbie, should I look into something else? Thanks. Safe holidays Ya'll!

Georg,

I use the Propik Reso.

I prefer the National picks and somehow managed to buy up some several years ago. Dunlop makes a near copy of the Nationals and are shown on their websight. Tom Bradshaw may sell them. They come in several thicknesses and are very shapeable. Players have their favorites, these are mine.

Lol.Dammit boy.You won't find anything that will last that long these days.