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DrtyDon - Posted - 12/12/2008: 18:31:08
I will take delivery of my first sqaure neck Dobro on Monday. I went by the music store today to get some picks and was told not to use steel finger picks. Anyone know why? It seems most of you use metal or brass picks.
badger - Posted - 12/12/2008: 20:21:41
Sounds like you need a new music store! Most everyone plays with metal picks. FWIW, Pro-Pix work the best for me. Check First Quality Music (fqms.com) or one of the other online stores to get a sense what's available. Good luck with the new one!
MitchellB - Posted - 12/13/2008: 06:59:29
I like Dunlop .025 metal finger picks and used to use an old metal thumbpick until I made the switch back to a plastic thumbpick. The choices today in fingerpicks are wide and varied compared to when I began teaching myself to play. I currently keep an old set of Kyser fingerpicks in my Dobro case that I been using on it. They are basically a National knockoff. German Nickel-Silver Nationals used to be the standard that other picks were judged by. I agree. You need to check out another music store (or knowledgeable store employee). You can used plastic fingerpicks, but not many people do. I do occasionally if I am fingerpicking my acoustic guitar for the warmer tone, but I think even metal is the standard for that as well. There are also a wide range to picks to look at online at the various online music store web sites like Janet Davie and First Quality.
M i t c h e l l
GeoBar - Posted - 12/13/2008: 07:26:34
I use Dunlop .025. I've tried Kyser but I don't use them to play the dobro 'cause the "nail" of Kyser's is flat. Dunlop's are a little rounded and they don't slip with an awful noise when your finger is not at right angle to the string.
Please, write slowly and articulate ... I''m French.
Bjorn - Posted - 12/13/2008: 08:07:04
Hi
I use the ProPick - both brass and steel - mith the angled tip.
The tumbpick has always been plastic for me. Most of them also with an angle.
Just the other day a banjo-picking friend let me try the Golden Gate extra-heavy, and he never got it back.... And he never will...
Regards
Bjørn
Mbradford6288 - Posted - 12/13/2008: 11:00:42
Don't forget half the people employed in any music store are idiots. I work in one myself, and while it's still up for grabs which side of the line I fall on, I have heard some of the most wrong stuff come out of employees mouths.
In fact, this forum seems to be lacking in its moron quotient. Is it possible that reso players are just a smarter breed?
YMMV
bbjork - Posted - 12/13/2008: 14:18:48
I've tried most of them over the years and now use only the dunlop.025 brass fingerpicks and Zookie L-20 thumbpicks (heavy Slick Picks are ok too). Fingerpicks never wear out but I can go through a thumbpick in a good three hour jam. I try a fit the fingerpicks so they follow the roll of my finger, very little hangover and I also put them on off center so they hit the strings flat on.
I had a Vega 5 string that was stolen in 1969 but for some reason I had five of the old (real old collectors items) National nickel silver's in my guitar case, I use those when I play the banjo, great banjo picks.
bbjork
Trapper - Posted - 12/14/2008: 13:02:46
Yep, Pro-pik angled resos, both nickel and brass, for me as well. Like the Zookie 20 too.
RED - Posted - 12/15/2008: 19:44:15
Go metal I use Dunlop .025 and a Zokie thumb pick. I plan to try a set of brass picks soon. I would also try Elderly Music .
jwstahl - Posted - 12/17/2008: 04:31:16
Stacy Phillips uses plastic fingerpicks, and his tone is great, but he's the only one I know of.
I use a Zookie thumbpick and Showcase fingerpicks - same setup I use on the banjo. The Showcase picks are the most comfortable I've tried, and they feel "broken in" almost immediately. They're a little more expensive - $7 a pair - so I try not to drop them in the grass at festivals.
Try 'em all and see which ones fit you best.
John
kimmattis123 - Posted - 12/17/2008: 06:43:06
I had a class from Stacy Philips [ years ago] and his tone is fanastic. He seems to use picks from the 1930s like his old dobro. I use a propick on index, a dunlop .25 nickle plated brass and a herco thumb [ Its short, like a reg. guitar pick glued onto a thumbpick] but i have a collection of all kinds, metal, plastic, thumbs - but i use different ones for banjo and dobro
KSM
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