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does any1 know a hole bunch about steel or metal picks, sound wise of course like all my other posts??


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i do not no a hole lot about steal piks. it seams lik it wood hurt yr fingr an thum.

l8r

As far as I know there are more than few sorts of steel picks. aluminum picks cost around two bucks in Croatia, they are measured 0.9 mm, there are "hotlicks" copper picks which are a little more flexible and come in variety of thickness, from 0.5 to 1 mm, I guess. These piks give you much brighter sound when you strum and are really cool to get unnatural sounds like sliding across the string etc. There are also 1.5 mm "cymbolic" picks made out of cymbals which are useful for playing fat riffs, because they are a little shorter and with a little less pointy tip, but if you get careless, you'll break a lot of strings with them. All of these picks should be rather inexpensive in U.S.A.

I've had a few. The best I've come across was actually a steel tipped pick.
It was particularly nice to use beacuase the base of the pick where you hold it was made of flexible plastic with perferations for grip sake. The advantage here is that you get that seel on steel sound with the feel of a standard pick. I had found that "all steel" picks were too rigid to use for the all important power metal solos. There is another funny little thing called a "jellyfish pick". It has a series if little steel prongs...so when you strum, the strings are plucked not once but several times. The manufacturers claim that it will make your six string sound like a twelve string or a dulcimer but it doesn't. Frankly it's shit. Stay away from the jellyfish unless you really need to pay 10 dollars for one pick!!! You can imagine how pissed the store guy was when I asked him to open the moulded packaging to try one, only to give it back to him seconds later.
I am still a fan of the steel tipped picks though.

Dan

alright, thats cool thanks

russ wrote:i do not no a hole lot about steal piks. it seams lik it wood hurt yr fingr an thum.

l8r

Ha ha ha! I laff B-cause it's fun-E butt eye worry U R just encouraging it. I mean, the emoticons make me nervous enough in here without purposeful Prince/Slade spellings...

I love how they sound and I have ones that I bought in 1997 that I still use everyday. They don't wear out like plastic ones.

I don't like steel picks... for me they have resulted in nothing but broken strings and bloody fingers.

I do Dunlop Nylons.

steel is too hard.

brass is where it's at.

steel picks break strings (faster than nylon ones)