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Looking for picks

Lately I've been looking for Nylon guitar picks, about 1.0+mm, with a grip that goes all the way to the edge of the pick for playing with the pick's 'shoulders'.

I've found these picks so far, was wondering if you guys know any picks with similar grip designs:

Herdim Nylon 351 Picks

G&G Mel Bay Green Bullseye Picks

Herco Flex 75 Picks

GEAR:
  • Washburn T-24 Taurus Bass
  • Gibson EB-3
  • Epiphone Les Paul Custom Pro Koa - Limited Edition

i would say try the Dunlop nylon 1.0mm picks. i used to use them when i first started playing. there a great guitar pick.

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  • Agile Pendulum Pro 72527 EB CA Blue Flame
  • DigiTech WH-4 Whammy (4th Gen)
  • Blank slot

Are you planning to do a lot of u2 covers?

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp

Actually haven't listened to them at all yet... I started looking at gripped picks held sideways when I read Steve Morse did it on his 4-pickup Telecaster, with these "weird, old nylon picks made by dunlop" that he said they didn't make anymore (I just assumed Hercos). Also heard SRV held them sideways, but never seen or heard of him using a gripped pick (usually Fenders).

Morse mentioned in the interview, when he held the pick at an angle, he could get all these weird, scratchy sounds like sandpaper by letting the grip catch the unwound strings, that's kinda what peaked my interest.

Herco picks are about the best I've found for having a corse grip all the way to the edges.

Edit; found the interview too:

[Musicradar.com]: You still have a pick tucked underneath the tailpiece. Any significance to it?

[S.M.]: "That was one of probably two or three picks that I owned. These nylon Dunlop picks were hard to find. I played with the rounded edge, on the side, and they wore away very slowly. The reason I used the edge, especially with downstrokes, was that I could get some unusual sounds - it would kind of scrape the strings. It would pull a little bit, like a hint of sandpaper.

"I was funny about picks back then: I never changed them and I never gave them away. I had one spare pick and that was on the guitar."

GEAR:
  • Washburn T-24 Taurus Bass
  • Gibson EB-3
  • Epiphone Les Paul Custom Pro Koa - Limited Edition

ive tried the herdim ones before and the herco ones are my usual picks at the moment, both of them do that weird scrapy thing with the grit but if i remember correctly the herdim ones may go a little closer to the edge than the herco, but since the herdims are harder to get maybe give the hercos a try, i dont personally hold them sideways but i do really like them myself

GEAR:
  • Sound City B120
  • Fernandes RB 80
  • Pro Co RAT 2

I'm not even sure 8f they still make the herdims? Do you know if they were an ge ordered online? Because they're not in stores and haven't been for years.

GEAR:
  • Roland Juno-6
  • Gibson SG Standard
  • Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp

im not sure i last had some a year ago or so, got them online from a place called hobgoblin music.

GEAR:
  • Sound City B120
  • Fernandes RB 80
  • Pro Co RAT 2