Finger Pickers! No more sliding, painful picks! Great hack! Autoharp, banjo, guitar, dobro....

[@michaellandreth1392]

Ok this seems like a good idea. However I think I got something that works as good if not better. Bow String Wax. For Archery. I use it for both a Guitar Pick you hold between your Thumb and Finger. And to put my Thumb and Metal Finger Picks on for Dobro/ Lap Steel. It comes in a Tube like Chap Stick only fatter. It is better than licking your finger/thumb. And keeps your cudicals from getting sore. Thanks for considering my idea.

[@markharwood7573]

Thank you! I have bought some to make the Bumblebee thumb pick stay in place.

[@Domn879]

Searched through my watch history for a while to come back and thank you for this. I use Alaska picks for electric guitar as they are by far the best tone but…you need a decent nail to hold them on and I can never keep one long enough. This keeps the pick in even with a short nail. I’ve been trying lots of other pucks to try and fix this but now I can just use my favourite picks. Thank you.

[@ArkRed1]

I found the only roll of Nexcare waterproof tape in the county, and put strips inside my fingerpicks. Works well. May not be permanent, but I've got a roll in my dobro case with some tiny surgical scissors where I can put more pieces on if necessary. Thanks for the great tip. 🙂

[@PeppermintEel]

I’m a ballet dancer and use this same tape on my toes - so funny! Glad to know I can use it while playing autoharp! I have small lady-fingers and it’s hard to find picks that stay where they should. Thanks!

[@miahoover9225]

I tried it and love it. I just suggested it to someone else.

[@QuirlosCanto]

Perfect!! My cuticles were killing me. Learning banjo here.

[@MistaSCARY]

Great tip for your fingertips!

[@0bm31770]

I tried it. It works great! Another option is to dip the lower part of the picks in Plasti-Dip. It works the same way but you don't need to fuss with it each time you put them on.

[@maineguitarists]

Thanks! I was born with thin fingers and no matter what i tried with metal picks and plastic ones they either fall off due to my weird playing style or i would put them on too hard and they would hurt. I gave this a try and wonderful! I use banjo picks now on dobro and lap steel so you solved my problem. Cheers!

[@GeneBlack]

I have used it based on a previous video - BUT, I am really happy to learn that I can re-use it instead of throwing it away each time.

[@davidharris3194]

Woo-hoo! Great tip! I hate it when I'm playing and start to feel a pick getting loose mid song....

[@NemoNepersonne]

Thanks. There is also a NexCare Removal Tape that is NOT waterproof or rubbery and doesn’t stretch. I accidentally got the wrong kind after watching this. It’s the WATERPROOF tape I need.

[@tomparker8748]

Ordered! Thanks for the info

[@tyler1234321]

Super great advice. I destroyed my cuticles the first week I started playing and decided to do the exact same thing!

[@socialmeaslesinpartnership1252]

Neat! Thank you! People have been using electrical tape for years. What I did was buy some brass Nationals because they're softer than nickel and they sound better too. No problems at all but I really don't understand why anyone would go for stainless steel. Might be a fix for those pain merchants. Have to be a little careful here. This is about f/picks, quite a number of players use them but I know an awful lot more give them a go and then don't persist. That's OK but all these sagas of messed up cuticles and sore fingers could (maybe) be a bit like those who complain that Gibson electric guitars don't stay in tune. The reality is that I've met more Gibson players than any other make and they don't seem to have these problems and nor do I. I have taught one or two how to change strings properly though - and met some that didn't know that you have to change strings. So - if you see someone playing a Gibson SG without problems and yours is a dog, go to your music store and ask how to change strings. And so it is with f/picks, the traditional national banjo-player type - if you put them on upside down or leave them sticking out, that isn't going to help. You have to know how to use them and they don't come with instructions - I've even heard of some putting them on the wrong hand! I didn't know much when I first tried them and abandoned them until some time later, someone having straightened me out. Then it was using nickel picks on three fingers for f/style on my acoustic. I had to bend them around a bit to stop them making me a bit sore and occasionally I'd shed one while playing but..............OK! I got used to playing with them, the volume and the "zing" in the sound and I could finally practice as much as I liked. My playing improved a lot and has continued to improve because of that but it took time to get used to everything being "in a different place". Then I learned from a website years ago that they do brass ones and they're a bit softer. These are what I now use. I fitted them easily, I can put them on in a dark backstage, no need to number them for each finger, just stick them on. They never fall off and they don't have that "different place" feel - if I want, I can play without them. That's because I push them back so that I can only barely see the crescent of the pick past my finger - it's virtually in the same place as my fingernail. They are well behind the cuticle, no problems, discomfort or even awareness of them at all. I turn them a little but that's just because of the angle of my hand. I've had them years now, never any issue at all with soreness (I've seen some awful photos of messed up hands - what are people doing?), falling off - whatsoever - because they don't move at all. No tools needed, just keep them in a little tin in the guitar case, you only need to fit them once so long as you don't sit on them or suchlike. I don't even think about this these days. So that's years of experience with these things for you from what is by now a seasoned and >ahem< advanced player. Getting to grips with these broadened my repertoire and deepened my playing technique hugely because it released me to practice all I wanted to. The brass ones are much kinder and easier but nickel is OK too provided you patiently trial-and-error bend them around and push them far enough onto your fingers. They shouldn't be anywhere near the cuticle/base of the nail and they should only just be visible past the end of your finger with the pad of the fingertip fully in the blade. If you don't do that it will move each time you address the string. You won't notice that but you'll get the typical troubles of soreness, shedding and things being "in the wrong place". Get this right and you free your hand for close work such as lead lines, double-stop grabs and pinches, Tarrega-style arpeggios or slap rhythms and syncopations. You can strum too! Stainless steel. I've never used these or tried them, never going to. I've worked (dayjob) with stainless steel and it's a very, very unforgiving material. It doesn't really belong anywhere near the human body, great for commercial catering outfits. I strongly suspect the photos I've seen of distressed hands is because of these and.........I'll tell you something about it...... stainless steel kitchen knives are "all the thing" in the modern, well equipped domestic kitchen, the absolute "must-have for the domestic goddess". 'owever! Chefs don't use them. They use carbon steel knives and sharpen them frequently. They dry them immediately after washing and store them very, very carefully. That's because they "take an edge" far, far better than stainless steel - in use, they are a different world and you have to take care until you get used to it. You can't just dump those in the washing up, you'll hurt yourself. When you see those chef programmes on TV skinning a flatfish both sides to take the fillets off and you can't do it at home, that's why - stainless steel won't begin to take an edge like that no matter how long you hone it or re-grind it. Ironically, it's too hard. Yet everyone buys stainless steel kitchen knives like hotcakes because stainless steel is strongly associated with professional catering. See? The real reason for knife blocks and magnetic racks for knives isn't just to stash them - it's to makes sure of "no accidents" with good knives. That's fashion for you. If you are having grief with picks, the first thing to do is check what they are made of and if it's stainless steel, try something else. Cost and longevity aren't an issue. The only reason anyone ever replaces picks is to try something else or because of losing them. The wound "G" on my guitar takes a disproportionate bashing from my brass pick so I buy those strings separately - that's the only cost issue. I imagine stainless steel would shred that string in moments. Entirely unsuited. My humble opinion is - you'd have to be mental to really want to put your hands through that, it's just a silly "clickbait fashion" type of idea and a set of nickels or brass will comfortably last your lifetime anyway. tha's wot i fink, dudes and dudesses. You may not like them at all anyway but at least you'll know..........................................

[@MLife1000]

Thank you!

[@servantfromthelordyeshuaha]

Thank you so much, just started, and y hope it helps, The plastic, move still waiting for the metal ones with a curve hope it will help i will try your tip, hope you feel better, Shalom

[@adriennestark5198]

Brilliant!

[@marinevet7273]

I live in Raymond WA. Do you replace autoharp strings, felt pads etc.

[@wildautoharp]

Sure do. We are in SeaTac by the airport.

[@Zach-ls1if]

I’m so distracted by my thumb pick moving around

[@TheWhisleblower]

Just went to buy a bit to try it, is so expensive in the UK I won't bother

[@wildautoharp]

Remember it's reuseable---and you can put it inside your picks, and the same tiny bit lasts and lasts that way. Just some mitigating perspective.

[@Lostoldman]

Maybe there’s an equivalent in the uk because I can’t find it anywhere. The only one I see same name as in the video is shinny glossy. So that can’t be it right?

[@jholinemoore3501]

I wel go to walmart to get some ,, thanks,I need them:)))))

[@sowhatitsjustme]

Thanks for the tip. btw: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life