Andy Timmons

Andy uses Dunlop Tortex Pitch Black Jazz III picks, according to Dunlop's website.

He briefly explained his story with Dunlop Jazz III picks in a 2022 guitarguitar interview:.

Oh yeah, so this is interesting because this is the most consistent part of my signal chain. It’s a Dunlop Jazz III Tortex 1.14mm. Small stiffy, so to speak! (laughs) It’s weird, it was a guy at the music store I was teaching at when I was in Miami, he just said ‘try this pick!’ I immediately recognised the level of detail I was able to get. It’s got a really fine point at the end, the size didn’t bother me. I greatly prefer the tone of nylon though. For a while there, they made an XL nylon Jazz III for buckethead; he requested them, so that was a thing around 1999 or 2000. I was using that pick a lot. I even love the tone of a Fender Heavy, but so much of my technique has been developed over the years around this pick that I can’t get the detail and articulation with any other pick. I’m kind of in a way married to this pick. It is shocking though: if you have not done this when you’re tone questing, just get a jar full of picks. There are massive differences in tone and feel with all of these.