FREE Picks

[foomanfat]

I'm really digging the heavy pick. Having the stiffness without the thickness is nice.

[amorphous]

I'm really digging the heavy pick. Having the stiffness without the thickness is nice.

EXACTLY!

[Psyre]

Yea love these picks so far. Ointment they sent made my peen swell a wee bit though.

[huggernaut]

Yea love these picks so far. Ointment they sent made my peen swell a wee bit though.

Totally sig worthy.

[the_carl]

Got my picks today, diggin' the A1 pretty hard. For some reason it bothers me a little to have texture on both sides of the pick, though.

[theavondon]

They're pretty neat!

[amorphous]

cut 'em down to jazz III size = even better!

[foomanfat]

Got my picks today, diggin' the A1 pretty hard. For some reason it bothers me a little to have texture on both sides of the pick, though.

I like having them for grip, but I wish the logos didn't protrude so far.

[Psyre]

Yea I feel the same about the logos

[Mike]

Got mine on Monday. Played them for 1-2 hours a day since. I usually use delrin 0.73mm picks, and have been using the Graph-tech A1. Not a fan.

My Graph-tech picks came with rough edges. They also had a big, uncomfortable burr on the top of the pick. Not cool. They seem to be molded as a whole pick, rather than stamped out from a sheet.

These picks, compared to delrin picks, are slick, as in slippery. They tend to rotate in between my fingers, and I find myself adjusting the pick position more with them than with delrin.

The A1 I have been using has considerable wear after just 6-8 hour of use. It has scrapes and scratches all over it, and seems to be developing a crack right down the middle.

In terms of how they sound, well, it doesn't matter. I don't see any advantage that this pick provides over my current pick, and I see lots of disadvantages. They're more expensive than the picks I use, too.

It was worth a try, but I won't be switching.

Mike

[one bad monkey]

Got my picks and lube packets on Thursday. One of the packets ruptured in the little bag, so it was a little messy but no big deal. Haven't used the picks yet, but I like the feel of them over the ones that I grab for the few times I do use picks.

I actually like the lube. That's right, I said "I like lube!" Unlike FastFret or the Dr. Stringfellow stuff, I found that this didn't make your fingers glide over the strings any faster or allow you any more real speed. What I did find is that it cut down on a lot of the string slide noise that you hear on new strings (the set I've been using is about a week or two old). That, to me, was excellent. Especially when playing solo pieces, not hearing that squeak from sliding around was nice.

[the Life Aquatic]

Got mine in the mail the other day.gonna give them a try tonight

[transients]

I'm actually liking these TUSQ picks way more than the nylon picks I use. At about the same thickness they are reasonably stiffer and seem to return to their original straightness whereas the nylons kind of get floppier and floppier over time, and I find the grip to be decent too, not as good as the nylons though. Soundwise, nice and crispy as a denser, stiffer material should deliver. I don't really care for the talcum-ish hand lube stuff; i can see it's usage but it's just sort of silly. All 3 of the picks I got had very smooth edges and feel really nice, but now I'm worried that they're inconsistent as Mike points out above, he got rough ones. Overall, I think their free-pick marketing has actually worked on me.