Just a thoguht on Pick Handels

[LockNewbie21]

Okay I am going for the spotwelded.. or riveted steal handels.

SInce i hear people say they deadin the feal.. why not just slim down the handels.

There like what? a little less that a quater inch wide.

So make um smaller... jsut a thought.. im bored..

[Romstar]

Any handle attached to a pick almost always deadens the feedback.

The closest we have currently is no handle at all, and riveted and welded handles. Anything else kinda deadens the feel.

The average pick handle is about the thickness of three picks stacked on top of each other. Maybe 5/64ths of an inch. No thicker than 3/32nds.
At any rate, making them slimer only gets back to our original problem.

Handles are there to take some of the ouch factor away from picking with handleless picks.

At any rate, just about everything is a sort of compromise. I think I have a relative solution to this problem, but you are going to have to wait just a bit longer before you see one.

I have at least described them here before though.

Romstar

[LockNewbie21]

Hey Rom thanks mate. I figured it would be a good convo started though

[Bud Wiser]

Rom,

although the Peterson rubber textured handles are my favorite for comfort, I do seem to feel more from metal handles.

Would I be correct in assuming that rubber or plastic, while more comfortable, deadens more then plain metal handles?

Also, how about smaller picks? It would seem that the shorter the distance between our hand and pins the less resistance to pick feel. But at some point too small becomes counter productive because you loose leverage.

So the "perfect" pick would smaller then the full size picks, but not too much smaller, and with a metal handle with no insulation.

Unfortunately they would not be as comfortable for very long.

[Krypos]

i have the SO reg and slim picks. and they can hurt while picking for more than a few minutes. in fact, i cut myself ONCE on a slimline pick. and whats the worst, is that i only feel the pain on 2 fingers. on the side of my middle finger, top knuckle, and on the side of my ring finger, next to the nail.

i have the SO vinyl handles (aka- "rubber") and those are a pain in the butt, so i took one, and cut it into sections, and so then i can slide a single piece on, and it covers the part that hurts my fingers, and it take like .09% feedback away, so its great.

other than that, the only other thing I* thought of, is a ring like thing that goes around the part of your finger that it hurts. and it has a pad, like foam, and that worked for a while, til it fell apart.

[Romstar]

Rom,

although the Peterson rubber textured handles are my favorite for comfort, I do seem to feel more from metal handles.

Would I be correct in assuming that rubber or plastic, while more comfortable, deadens more then plain metal handles?

Also, how about smaller picks? It would seem that the shorter the distance between our hand and pins the less resistance to pick feel. But at some point too small becomes counter productive because you loose leverage.

So the "perfect" pick would smaller then the full size picks, but not too much smaller, and with a metal handle with no insulation.

Unfortunately they would not be as comfortable for very long.

Any sort of insulating material deadens tactile fedback.

That aids in comfort as you are aware, but also gives somewhere for the vibrations to go.

When you start getting to something more rigid like the plastic handles, or the metal handles or no handles at all the vibrations travel right up the shaft and into your hand.

The smaller picks such as the HPC Regal set do enhance the feedback even though you ahve a rubber handle. This is a result of the smaller size.

The best size for small picks is 3 inches. You get the regular 1.5 inches for the shaft and tip, and another 1.5 inch for the handle. Anything more than this gets in the way until you hit about 4.5 - 4.75 inches which is the standard pick length.

Romstar