Please correct me if I am wrong fellers but isn't thickness really dependent on hardness of material. Say for instance you are playing with a 1.6 piece of felt, your not going to get any tone unless they have stiffened the felt with epoxy. I say try em out and see which you like!
Adam, I'll go back to cooking now! On Oct 17, 4:12 pm, Robin Gravina <[email protected]> wrote: > ok, I would really like to read some articulate opinions about thickness (of > picks of course). What style do you play and why do you choose the pick you > choose? I have absolutely no idea about this, and just ordered a Wegen when > I started playing until people told me it was worn out. Then starting with a > new one did sound better. I am pretty much committed to either beating hard > with tremolo and downstrokes or getting fiddle tunes to be funky. Or not. > What's the difference between a thick pick and a massively thick pick? Why? > Who? What the? > > All this is in the details. let's hear some of them, guys. If thicker is > better, why can't I just play with a bevelled bit of roof slate? Oh, and > while you're at it, let's hear about pick angle too. I'm fed up with > instinct, I want opinion and knowledge. Or not. > Best > Robin > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 7:46 PM, mistertaterbug > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > Howdy all. > > I just had a talk with Dave Skowron on the phone and we've put another > > thickness in the works for the future. Here is Dave's email to me > > regarding thicknesses.... > > > "...The #1 will be about a millimeter or so, the #2 will be between > > 1.25 and 1.30mm and the #3 will be about 1.5 or 1.6 or so..." > > > So from now on, we will be using numbers to designate thickness. It > > will be engraved on the pick face so there's no confusion. Also, I am > > thinking of getting some TBS's made in the "Tuff-Tone" material. I'll > > be getting a couple in soon and will try them out. Also, I'm looking > > at ramping up my website to include a lot more things to do(if I can > > just get a certain fellow off his haunches...), so be looking for > > that. > > > Okay, that's all for this Saturday. Cheers. > > Taterbug --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
