I use an Alaska pick on my thumb like a flatpick. I can't believe it took me 40 years to discover that use for them. Switch from flatpicking to fingerpicking without skipping a beat. Try it, it's awesome!
@assikowski
5 жыл бұрын
Just bought them, adjusted them, played with them... JUST GREAT! Never again without them, these are really the first picks that work for me!! Strongly recommeded!
@kurtismayer0994
6 ай бұрын
Great playing, love your style 😎
@nylonstring9132
4 жыл бұрын
Alaska pik should really offer the possibility to buy a bag of mixed size picks. It is very expensive to buy all sizes in order to figure out which is the best fit.
@anneberkeley7411
Жыл бұрын
I bought two medium and two large from Musician's Friend which sells them individually for $1.90. I also tried Fred Kelly picks but was unable to find single picks anywhere so I bought 2 packs of 3, one large and another medium. Ended up using Alaska. I like them best because I don't loose contact between the fingertips and the strings with them. That sense of touch is very important to me.
@andyr4611
3 жыл бұрын
I like shortened picks but I don't file the playing tip as that softens the tone and loses some volume, instead I put a balsa wood wide nail file in the slot and file the slot wider so the pick slides higher up the finger, that works for me. Great product couldn't play fingerstyle without them.
@mdhj67
11 жыл бұрын
I started using these picks about two years ago and love them. Give them a try.
@WillBill2857
2 жыл бұрын
Cutting off the centre band made all the difference, much more secure on my fingers doing that.
@rogerc3484
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your quality Info. & thanks for inventing these Alaska Pics. I just ordered a 12 pack and can,t wait to try them out when they arrive. All the Best! Roger
@nickfitzham
5 жыл бұрын
Round em off real snippy-like...
@strengthhonor5056
3 жыл бұрын
I like them! I trim them to the shape of my nails, a little longer on the top (near) side. I make them short enough that I can still index the strings with the flesh of my finger tips, just like I do with nails. Also, with them this short I can favor my finger tips when I want to. I use them together with a thumb pick. I play blues. Thank you for a great pick!
@ibendiben
6 жыл бұрын
This helped a lot! Makes me wonder though, why don't you make them like that in the first place? Thanks anyway ;) Yours are the best I tried.
@lydellb
7 жыл бұрын
Just ordered some plastic and some brass one. Can't wait to try them out.
@cheriecarpenter3529
4 жыл бұрын
I just ordered a set and can't wait to try them with my autoharp♥️
@leandrosouza-ov1rd
4 жыл бұрын
Very good, I found these reeds too interesting. I had never seen anything like it!
@hoopiejohn
8 жыл бұрын
I wanted to tell you that I've been using Alaska picks since the '90s. I love them. I use them in every video I've ever made. I use the brass ones, because I play with a lot of power and broke the plastic ones all too frequently, and I'm a tightwad. But I liked those plastic ones - they're lighter and don't make as much string noise.I recently tried to tell a young guitarist at the 32nd Chet Atkins Appreciation Society Festival, about these picks. I had them on my fingers and told him that they are not unlike a Classical guitarist's use of fingernails. When playing they have a similar feeling, and his eyes glazed over and looked at me like I was stupid. Youth knows everything.The only technique where they are a problem is the downward Rasgueado, where a strum is made by uncurling the fingers quickly, striking the strings with the front, or top, of the nail, but the thumb can be used as an alternate. (The upward Rasgueado works just fine).But they are a fine invention, and I promise they are here to stay. Not every good idea or invention takes off as quickly as it should, but I bet you in time every fingerstyle guitarist, of every genre - Classical, Blues, Ragtime, Country - in the world will be using them. (You and I might not live that long).And no, I'm not being compensated, or know the inventor.And I wish you had made millions on your invention, but I'm guessing not.Now I have one question - the name Alaska Picks - are you in Alaska? How did you get that name or brand?
@aLaskapik
6 жыл бұрын
Lived in Alaska when I invented them. And, everyone on the planet has heard the name Alaska.
@lucoluap5792
4 жыл бұрын
The Derlin material is a discreet but not optimal compromise. The suitable material is celluloid which gives a perfect sound and above all does not emit annoying hum of the contact of the finger with the metal string. I don't know if celluloid can be worked like derlin. If you, for example, experience the sound of a real cellulode thumbpich, you realize the difference. Anyway thanks to alaska pick
@crstrean1
9 жыл бұрын
Ed: you can use the transparent plastic tape they use for applying dressings at Dr's offices, etc. You can buy it at any drug store. Just wrap what you need around the base of the finger picks, or even a little further up. You have to experiment but it works great until your nails grow long enough to support the picks. Don't buy the white 'Paper' tape.
@93Quizno
9 жыл бұрын
What would be the best way to go about making these picks more secure on shorter nails?
@hitmanbluesband
9 жыл бұрын
As somebody else asked - what's the best way to shape it so that it doesn't come out from under a short nail? Not "nail biter" short, just normal, slightly below the flesh, short.
@barbaraknapp-bennett9613
4 жыл бұрын
will these work for a Kalimba? my thumb nails are brittle and break every time I try to learn this instrument then I have to wait for them to grow again only to do a rinse and repeat.
@raphaeldomingues9425
11 жыл бұрын
Although you are a bit impolite by email, you really look like a nice guy in this video....
@UncleKennysPlace
5 жыл бұрын
Gonna order up a boatload of these to try with classical, six and twelve string, four and six string bass, and banjo. I'll give a "pirep" when I'm done testing. I've broken too many long fingernails doing yard work, would rather have something like this.
@guitarmadeeasy4232
6 жыл бұрын
Great video! If anyone's interested in seeing how alaska pik's sound compares to using fingernails, I made a video on my channel with a side-by-side comparison between the two.
@sj4177
2 жыл бұрын
Do you wear one on your thumb?
@jwheetree
10 жыл бұрын
Would you recommend your picks for clawhammer picking?
@ccaissie113
4 жыл бұрын
I use a metal national pick on my downpicking index finger...mostly cuz I'm a mechanic and can't live with a long nail...gets packed with filth or gets torn.
@bennington7620
7 жыл бұрын
Nice beard!
@michellethompson2738
3 жыл бұрын
What you are gonna do with the fake product on sale on the internet?
@lightbulb1952
6 жыл бұрын
Can you drop these in boiling water to expand them, make them wider? Thanks in advance.
@aLaskapik
6 жыл бұрын
You do not need to boil them. Just bend and flex to desired result.
@aLaskapik
6 жыл бұрын
Don't need to. Just flex them the say you want.
@IlonggoInsider
4 жыл бұрын
Where can i buy original alaska pik?
@aLaskapik
4 жыл бұрын
Online is eht best.
@gimpyjwilliams
9 жыл бұрын
is this the creator and owner of alaska piks?
@igshort
8 жыл бұрын
yes, this is the creator of Alaska pik.
@Alvitornado2904
7 жыл бұрын
Why do u call ur fingers flesh?!!! It sounds sooo strange.
@dianamccandless7094
7 жыл бұрын
...because that's what it IS. The flesh of the fingers
@adamtune
6 жыл бұрын
Most classical guitar discourse I've read/studied/heard refers to the meaty part of the finger as the "flesh" and the nail as the "nail" to distinguish between the two. "Finger" just includes all of that stuff, so it's hard to be specific. I suppose that's the best reason I can think of for the use of the vocabulary!
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