Recommend Picks? Stone or similar alternative material.

[CEG85]

Experimented a lot through out the years but always go back to my main 2.
.88mm Dunlop Tortex Flow
Or
Dunlop jazz III XL black

I occasionally use .73 Dunlop tortex flow.

Flow picks have a pointed tip and more attack then the regular tortex picks which is why I like them.

 

[BesaMoogie]

I kind of went trough the same dilemma with worn down picks and I simply settled on practicing less. Keeps the pick fresh and healthy !

 

[JackBootedThug]

Fender mediums…they taste the best….lol. I’m using these ones now that have a wolf’s head on them…maybe dunlops. I got them from musicians friend because they were cheap at the time and I had zero picks. I love them. Really nice picks for me. I’ll use anything though. Hell the first five years I played I never used a pick…I would finger fuck the hell out of a guitar….?

 

[7704A]

I give picks absolute hell and have not had that issue with the 2mm that I use

Left is an almost mint 4.20mm, and on the right is a 4.20mm that's been in use since spring this year. It blunted fairly early as mentioned, and then has slowly gotten worse I think. I wonder if it has to do with picking styles. I've been drilling alternate picking the whole time I had this pick, and have been trying to maintain as shallow a picking depth as possible while still sounding the note and accents, as well as trying to keep the pick fairly parallel to the string. Maybe you pick deeper, or with more of the pick edge, so that the tip doesn't take as much of a beating? I'm also using NYXL strings, for whatever that's worth. If you're using nickel instead of steel strings maybe that's part of it.

 

[Music&Chaos]

Left is an almost mint 4.20mm, and on the right is a 4.20mm that's been in use since spring this year. It blunted fairly early as mentioned, and then has slowly gotten worse I think. I wonder if it has to do with picking styles. I've been drilling alternate picking the whole time I had this pick, and have been trying to maintain as shallow a picking depth as possible while still sounding the note and accents, as well as trying to keep the pick fairly parallel to the string. Maybe you pick deeper, or with more of the pick edge, so that the tip doesn't take as much of a beating? I'm also using NYXL strings, for whatever that's worth. If you're using nickel instead of steel strings maybe that's part of it.View attachment 267042

I missed the steel.strimgs part. I actually found that when I used thicker picks like 3mm, it gave me a lot less feel/movement with the way I pick. Yes, I would agree that my pick depth completely changes depending on the piece/part/line that I play as opposed to always being at the pick edge. I went to playing that way from thinner picks and worked my way back to the middle.

Steel strings would definitely do it, makes sense. Again, found that my thicker picks blunted quickly from various makers. Big stubby was what I used for a good while.

I'd say you probably just eat through picks lmao steel pick may be something you need in that case or something similar. That, or you keep buying or grinding down picks. I used to sand mine back down to sharpness that was desired.