by Raymond » 29 Sep 2012 22:34
Back up to the beginning. You say you have read the concept of picking but you have somehow missed the point. With two or three pins in, apply turning pressure, insert your pick and close your eyes. Feel the pick tip as it moves over the pins. some may be springy and some may be rigid. When you have adequately felt the difference and can tell one pin from the next, push the rigid one up until it clicks in place. Feel how it is no longer rigid nor springy. With the top pin held at the shear line by your turning pressure that bottom pin is now free floating and 'picked.' Now feel the other pins and make the same determinations. Picking requires patience and luck as much as skill. You cannot force it. Practice will improve your skill and feel.
Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool. Wisdom is not just in determining how to do something, but also includes determining whether it should be done at all.
