How often do you break or totally wear down your picks?

Yellow Dunlops.
Every practice.
We go thru bags of em.

When I played bass I wouldn't wear them down, but I would snap them in half.

Green Dunlop Tortex .88's it takes a while for me to wear them out. I usually lose them before I wear it out anyways.

takes me a couple days of straight practicing to really go through one. i love em.

blue said:


out of years of using these I have never broke one. They last quite a while too!!! I use them or the fender version of the sam thing. fender 1.14xh

i dont break picks, i just wear them down. if your breaking picks when playing guitar, youre technique is screwed up.

Weird, that was the kind of pick I always used. And like I said, I'd snap 2-3 a show.

rich, youre talking bass here and were talking guitar i think.

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I use them on bass too. in fact I broke 5 bass strings in one show using that pic and it didn't break.

Joshtruction said:

you broke 5 bass strings in one show? did you have a backup bass handy or did your bandmates just strangle you for breaking so many damn strings?

it all went down during the last riff of the last song so I just threw my bass at someone (I think it hit one of the kids in the automata) and just jumped into the pile up.

Joshtruction said:

ok, well that's awesome. i was envisioning string changes after every song and many awkward silences.

fuck picks and their mother

Dunlop jazz ii nylon.

take months for me to wear them out. I have a handfull of a dozen or so I've used at practice 2-3 times a week for over a year and they till work fine.

people who play light picks don't care about precision

Where can I get these? 1.14 sharps? I use the non sharp ones and I wanna try these out.

brian_dc nli said:


people who use light picks have no finger control. With a thick pick you get more response from the string it's self (to the hand) and a better feel. If you know how to use that to your advantage IMO it can't be beat.

***anyone ever try out those stone picks or bronze (or random metal) picks?

nnnNubz said:

I tried the bronze picks that looked like cymbals. They made the strings sound really bright to me for some reason.

.88 mm Nylon Dunlops. They take forever to wear down. I've been using them for a few years now and I've only had to replace them because I lose them like crazy. And I've only had a few wear out on me.

i'm with blue on this matter. purple tortex jazz stubby's. and the green ones in times of desperation. i haven't played anything else in i-can't-tell-you-how-long

brian_dc nli said:

what do you consider light?

and i'll use them until they dull - but i do a good job of losing them first

cav said:


white nylon dunlops. Anything that sounds like a baseball card in the spoke of bike rim.

cav said:


just anything with flexibility. I think picks should be rigid so you have control. If you think about it, if the pick is flexing everytime you pick the attack is actually being delayed a millisecond, if you are playing fast then you're going to fall behind. Your picks aren't really that bad, but I can't use them after jumping up to 1.14.