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Topic: Picks for BIG fingers??? |
Jim Eaton
From:
Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 29 Mar 2006 4:46 pm |
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I have a student that has BIG fingers and I would like to find out brand of picks anyone would recommend that seem to work best for those folks with large fingers?
JE:-)>
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Emmons D10 8/4 P/P -75'
Fessenden SD-10 3/5
Zum SD-12 7/5 - 91'
76'Session 400
86'Nashville 400
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Sonny Priddy
From:
Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Mar 2006 5:48 pm
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You Mite Try Dunlop I Don't Know If They Will Work But Just A Try. SONNY.
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 30 Mar 2006 12:11 pm
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I too have big fingers. I've found the plastic picks to be downright painful !
The answer is to buy metal picks, which can be stretched out to your finger size, or, alternatively, to play without picks.
I've been playing for 45 years, and most of the time I don't bother with picks, whether I'm playing the steel guitar, guitar, banjo, mandoline, lute, cittern. Maybe it's just laziness ! |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 30 Mar 2006 2:11 pm
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Me too have fat fingers, but been puttin on picks for 40+ years. It can be done.
Get some metal picks, like the Nationals at .020 or .025 Cut to fit, bend to suit. |
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Jim Eaton
From:
Santa Susana, Ca
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Posted 30 Mar 2006 8:36 pm
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He's got dunlops now. I was just asking if any mfg made x-large ones.
I'm still working on a gross of old nationals I got when I worked at a music store in the 70's.
JE:-)> |
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Jerry Roller
From:
Van Buren, Arkansas USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2006 8:46 pm
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I don't think big fingers are near the problem that very small skinny fingers like mine are. Just get some good metal picks and fit them to the fingers and they should be fine. My picks have to have one end lap over the other and that really is a problem.
Jerry |
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Dennis Wallis
From:
Arkansas
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Posted 30 Mar 2006 10:04 pm
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| I have rather large fingers....especially my thumb...I use Dunlop metal finger picks and Ernie Ball thumb picks....they are a large or maybe an extra large size and fit and feel fine. The ones I prefer are the perloid ones..they feel good.they are real smooth. They also have some regular plastic which are good too. You will probably have to ask a music store that handles Ernie Ball products to special order you some unless they just happen to have some in stock. |
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Fred Glave
From:
McHenry, Illinois, USA
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Posted 1 Apr 2006 11:41 am
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| The National metal picks can be custom fit to any finger. Now try finding a decent thumb pick that doesn't make your thumb numb. They're usually to short for my taste too. |
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