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Actually, it wasn't the shape that I noticed first, but rather how the back end of the pick didn't extend to or past his thumb, which a 351 should.
Originally Posted by 3625
Now it could be the case that he has really wide thumbs, and I have narrow thumbs, but this is a picture of my hand holding a chopped 351 "Kreisberg" style. What this did for me was make the pick "pivot" along the cut edge and soften the attack since the point was not steady.
This is how much I cut off with my trusty snips. Having looked at stills of the above video, it looks like he rounded the cut to form new shoulders, which I did not do:
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09-13-2012 10:23 PM
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Didnt Joe Pass do the same thing for a while?
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I had a go with some EH Fender:
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Chopped picks, olive oil hand-fretboard lube . . . oy vey.
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I did some straight cuts too, I really enjoy how these feel compared to similar jazz iii sized picks.
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Because off this thread, I discovered that its possible to take still images off of youtube! Thanks all's y'all for feeding my obsessive habits
So here's a still from the video in my earlier post. If that pick started life as a regular 351 and if Kreisberg doesn't have huge thumbs, then its definitely chopped:
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obsess away! lol
jury's out for me... could go either way looking at that, we need confirmation... a bit like ufo's on youtube
that photo of Gilad is pretty emphatic though and they're both from New York and play with Ari Hoenig so the plot thickens
Franky your image from youtube looks to me like Kreisberg has short nails to pluck chords with, something I've wondered about because I find it difficult to get enough volume just using flesh in comparison with the pick volume so this collective obsession has produced for me something tangible right there - tks!
one thing I've noticed about smaller picks like jazz3's is that they seem better suited (to me) for plucking with the other fingers which Gilad does a lot with his counterpoint stuff
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