fingerpick suggestions?

[psmurf]

Any recommendations for fingerpicks? I've played around with dunlop plastics and some metal ones (don't know the maker) ... the thumbpicks were fine - easy to play with, nice and tight and no flopping. The fingerpicks I've tried have all been completely terrible though, bending against the string's tension, flopping all over the place, extending too far to feel at all natural. So for the little fingerpicking I do I just use the fingertips ... but I'd like some brightness in my tone again, so I'm looking to try some new fingerpicks ... any suggestions? I'd like to avoid metal since the sound of metal on metal is a bit too clangy for me ... so a tight curved plastic would be ideal (I don't know ... maybe something approximately fingernail shaped ). Can't grow my fingernails long 'cause of other instruments, nor would I want to. fyi: I'm just playing pretty basic acoustic rock stuff.

[HerNextFriend]

I use the 'f-tone' model from Guptill Music. I use their thumbpicks, too. I know you said you weren't into metal picks, but these act like a super-strong fingernail. You can get the pad of your finger on the string so it doesn't really feel like a fingerpick. I can't play with any other type of fingerpick. I don't like the sound of bare fingers that much, either.

 

I usually use either a thumbick and three fingerpicks (I, M, R) or a flatpick and three fingerpicks (M, R, P).

[Dave W.]

I use the Fred Kelly delrin thumbpicks, never could get used to fingerpicks though.

 

Dave

[Freeman Keller]

Here is a little discussion from UMGF about fingerpicks.

 

UMGF discussion

 

Personally I use a Dunlop plastic thumbpick (shortened) and old National metal fingerpicks on my resonators - flesh and nails on my acoustics. The only reason I use them on the reso's is the sound - flesh and nails just isn't nasty enough.

[gerardo1000]

The Fingertone picks are easy to be used, but they are thick metal and they sound very "metallic" to me. The traditional dunlop fingerpicks are good if you

choose the steel ones (not the brass ones) and a very light gauge, like 13th. They do not sound "metallic" to me.

My son is addicted to the Alaska plastic picks, and can't use anything

else. you shoul try them. Elderly sell them.

 

Gerardo1000