dmc79

I’d be first in line to try some Snarling Dogs Brain picks & offer something in return. I know I’ve mentioned it before, but you can only get them in tins of 12, which is really annoying. Don’t fancy paying £36 to get 3 tins of these just to try one of each

I know these things don’t break the bank, but I have a small tin full of these and would’ve happily sent you a few. I bought some after discovering that Simon Gallup uses them. I have to accept though that I can never be him, and I rarely touch these ones. I bet many of us have a whole bunch of picks from when we bought too many of one hoping it would work, only to find we didn’t warm to them. We should run some kind of swap shop, I’m sure a few times I’ve ordered 3, or even 6, of a pick, then ended up not using them. It seems silly for us all to have loads of them sat about, when there’s others we’d like to try that people also have sat around.

Yeah it’s crazy, I mean I think I figured out whilst I was waiting for my Flex 75 heavies to arrive, that they were thicker than that. The second I picked one up for the first time, I knew just by how comparatively flappy a Dunlop nylon .73 is, that there was no way the Herco was actually .75 thick. I do like them though, really nice grip on them, they feel firm but still with a little flex, and not mega stiff like a Tortex of .88 and up.

I've been trying to unravel the mystery of the actual thicknesses of the various Herco picks. I mistakenly thought the numbers on them were the thickness, but it seems that bizarrely, the '75' and '50' of the Flex, and '66' of the Vintage 66, have nothing to do with the actual gauges - I guess the numbers are be related to years or something, as I think they are reissue picks, but it seems crazy that Dunlop doesn't clearly state the thickness on these Herco models. I wanted to get a definitive answer on the thickness of them all. I've did a bunch of searching and found varying results. I saw thickness numbers mentioned for the Flex series in a few results, but far less for the Vintage 66 series. I posted on TB regarding the accuracy of these numbers, and it's thought that these are reasonably accurate: Flex 75 'Heavy' (Silver): 1.01 Flex 50 (Gold): .65 Vintage 66 'Extra light' (White): .73 Vintage 66 'Light' (Gold): .84 Vintage 66 'Heavy' (Silver): .96 There is also the 'Holy Grail' which I'm guessing would be the same 1.01 as the Flex 75. I'm not sure whether or not this plays stiffer than the Flex 75 as I've seen comments suggesting it both is and isn't! I recently got a few of the Flex 75 Heavy (1.01mm), I played a song in a live setting on Sunday with one and whilst it's thicker & less flexible than I'm used to these days (my upper limit is normally .88 for Nylon or .73 for Tortex), it gave a nice clarity & authority without being too boomy. I was quite impressed with it, and I really like the raised dots & circle grip, which feels like a perfect place for the thumb. I've ordered some of the standard Gold Flex 50 (.65mm) for where something faster / more flexible is needed. I may try the Vintage 66 series, but I don't like that the raised dot grip surface is on one side only, with the other side also missing the circle grip of the Flex picks. Though I'm likely overthinking this, and suspect that the dots on one side & raised writing on the other offers decent enough grip anyway. I just thought these numbers would be a useful resource for anyone unsure about how thick the Herco picks actually are. I really think it's insane that Dunlop don't clearly mark out the actual thickness of these on the picks.

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