Got some Nylon Flow picks in. Way too thin and flexy, more so than Tortex at 0.60 and 0.75mm. I've gotten more used to the Pickboy carbon/nylon blend which makes them a little more rigid even at 0.60mm.
I only recently realized that I lost my tin of picks at my last gig when the keyboard came crashing down onto my peddlebird so now I'm scraping the bottom of the stash and sanding down edges to have some viable picks. These carbon nylons wear down faster than I want them to.
My son always seemed to like the thicker picks and I've been giving him a few here and there from variety packs, mostly picks I wouldn't touch because I was still in my light Tortex phase so I've been trading picks with him to try different things.
I finally played my first Jazz III that I didn't immediately hate, an Eric Johnson signature (my son bought an artist variety pack on a whim). It had just the slightest amount of give and had a good grip. I seemed to change my picking style due to the small size of the thing which I did like for single notes but that's about it.
He also has an AAL Primetone 0.73 that I bonded with. My only Ultex picks were the 0.60mm standards and those things do not stay in my fingers whatsoever so I swore off the stuff prematurely,i guess the grip was the key, as is not expecting every material to be of the same flexibility.
I've ordered a pack of Primetone 0.73mm's in the XL Jazz shape. Expensive little shits.
WAAY better prices on Strings By Mail, and you can order single picks for pennies so I'm building my own variety pack. Primetones and Flows in nylon and ultex in sizes I want, Pickboy ceramic, Fred Kelley Nylon, some Tusq picks. GEEKED!
I have amassed handfuls of celluloid, tortex, and ultex pics that I will never use so I decided to use them as shims for woodworking projects. I've used a bunch of them to level the base of our new garden utility closet!
