Shark Tooth Picks

pdaigle

The topic of holding the pick and the pick slipping often comes up.

I just stumbled upon this:

http://www.sharktoothpicks.com/

and I am wondering if anyone tried them? Any thoughts?

Elliot

Haven't tried sharktooth per se, but I've found bone in general to be kind of scratchy.

pdaigle

Elliot wrote:

Haven't tried sharktooth per se, but I've found bone in general to be kind of scratchy.

Those are NOT made from shark tooth...it's an hybrid system of thumb pick that can be used for flatpicking or finger picking. You can use the provided thin plastic pick or you favorite pick with it. SharkTooth is just the product name.

MichaelHorowitz

I tried these....they're cool but didn't really work for rest stroke style picking.

Bob Holo

I tried several ways to attach Gypsy picks to my thumb a few years back - elastic (like this) and fastened to thumbpick clips. They were fun expiriments, but I found that they all restricted the motion of the pick in my fingers. I found it hard to do rest stop picking... it was sort of like trying to rest-stop pick while holding the pick too tightly - which doesn't work for me (and from reading Michael's material - it seems holding the pick tightly is poor technique)

Shelley Park uses a product called Gorilla Snot - it helps keep the pick from slipping while allowing you to hold it loosely. I think it's made with pine pitch. It's the best pick holding assistant I know of for Gypsy Jazz.

Elliot

pdaigle wrote:

Elliot wrote:

Haven't tried sharktooth per se, but I've found bone in general to be kind of scratchy.

Those are NOT made from shark tooth...it's an hybrid system of thumb pick that can be used for flatpicking or finger picking. You can use the provided thin plastic pick or you favorite pick with it. SharkTooth is just the product name.

They AREN"T??

Too bad...I heard that with a shark's tooth you can really cut through in a jam.

waldenjazz

Hi Elliot, nice chatting with you the other day! I hear there's always at least one shark swimming around a jam session... could pull a tooth from there if you need one. Another question might be why are gypsy jazz jam sessions so scarce that you have to drive from Florida to Tucson to find one? Given the rarity then it's a good thing everyone knows how to play "Minor Swing". Sharks teeth or not!

Rob