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Did a quick google search and didn’t find much. Thanks!
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02-20-2024 09:08 PM
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Someone else on here recently asked this.V picks makes a pick called the Farley which is supposed to be a copy of one he used later in life.
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Probs a pretty high chirp factor with that pick
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Any pick over 1.5 mm outside of maybe a Blue Chip is going to chirp but that doesn't seem to bother a lot of guys.
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Out of Lin Flanigan's biography of Johnny Smith "Moonlight in Vermont" (page 191):
"With regard to plectrums, Smith favored Ernie Ball Stubbies, which were small and heavy gauged at one millimeter thick. When these ceased production he stockpiled all that he could obtain. These plectrums had a tapered point so that the leading edge on one side and the diagonally opposed leading edge on the other side met the strings with flat surfaces. Bob Yelin recalls, 'They were small in a round and pointed shape. But in order to get a blues or sad feel for single note playing he filed the point of the pick to make it thinner.'"
Not exactly sure about the description of the tapered point or Bob Yelin's recollection of the pick being round and pointed at the same time, and the blues/sad feel from the filed down point.
I have the Farley pick and couldn't get a tone I liked out of it so it went into the pick reject box. Maybe I will fish it out and file it down!
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Originally Posted by Bill Eisele
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Originally Posted by nyc chaz
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Originally Posted by Bill Eisele
I think I'll scout up another big bag or two of the 204s and call it a day.
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Originally Posted by Bill Eisele
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I have the Farley and IMHO it's an awful pick. The bevel is wavy and badly finished rather than smooth (other than the Fusion, I've not liked any of the V Picks). But in general I don't like the sound of polycarbonate picks.
I've never seen an Ernie Ball stubby pick, was it a teardrop with a "speed bevel?"
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Originally Posted by nyc chaz
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Originally Posted by Cunamara
I have never seen an Ernie Ball Stubbie either. From the description it would appear to have been teardrop shaped with a speed bevel. But hard to say definitively. I searched the web for a photo but couldn’t find one.
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