What kind of pick do you use?

[Glassweb]

I use a BlueChip TAD 50. What a superb, versatile product! Money well spent as far as I'm concerned... just don't lose it!

[Bertram Henze]

I've had a few near disasters with the brown, blend in with everything coloured Blue Chip picks - if they're going to make a pick that expensive, can they not at least make it safety orange in colour? Or glow in the dark?

Cheers,
Jill

That's the advantage of Clayton's: they are light brown, translucent and if dropped, immediately go into camouflage mode - but they are so cheap that you can afford to just pull out the next one.
"Glowing in the dark" is a good idea: means the pick either contains a battery or is radioactive

Another option would be to glue a small strip of metal to your pick and retrieve it by sweeping the floor with a magnet...

[Eddie Sheehy]

I have a beauty glow-in-the-dark pick that emits beeping sounds when it hits the ground... you'd never lose this puppy... I can't tell you where to get one though, I found mine...

[PoetMom]

Oh my goodness! I had no idea anyone responded, and I just happened to see this today! I didn't get an email in my inbox saying people responded. I must have forgotten to check something off? Well, now I am going to read these!

[Bertram Henze]

I have a beauty glow-in-the-dark pick that emits beeping sounds when it hits the ground... you'd never lose this puppy... I can't tell you where to get one though, I found mine...

I know where it's from:

[Mandoviol]

I've had a few near disasters with the brown, blend in with everything coloured Blue Chip picks - if they're going to make a pick that expensive, can they not at least make it safety orange in colour? Or glow in the dark?

Cheers,
Jill

V-Picks makes several glow in the dark models; I haven't used their picks, but they seem pretty good. They have models specifically for mando.

I'm a fan of Wegens and, like Jamie, the D'Andrea Pro Plecs that come with Jazz Mando strings. You get a good sound out of both kinds. When I first bought my mandolin, it came with some Johnson mediums, but they seem too light (and too bright) for my taste.

[John Durkan]

I showed up for a gig once and found i had left all my picks at home, after a few minutes I remembered I had an expired drivers liscence in my wallet, so I took out my trusty pocket knife and in no time at all I had three picks cut out of it. One even had a pic of my face on it! they worked ok but I always keep a spare in my wallet anymore.

[Jill McAuley]

I showed up for a gig once and found i had left all my picks at home, after a few minutes I remembered I had an expired drivers liscence in my wallet, so I took out my trusty pocket knife and in no time at all I had three picks cut out of it. One even had a pic of my face on it! they worked ok but I always keep a spare in my wallet anymore.

Back in Dublin when I played guitar in a punk band, I too showed up for a gig with no plec, had to use a ha'penny instead!

Cheers,
Jills

[Jock]

Back in Dublin when I played guitar in a punk band, I too showed up for a gig with no plec, had to use a ha'penny instead!

Cheers,
Jills

I'm so paranoid about picks I've always got a few spare ones, once I did turn up at a gig without my guitar Only a 50 mile round trip to collect it, sitting where I'd left it, on the front door step

[AlanN]

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