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Verlon Thompson tells a short Guy Clark story while he demos the pick: Thumbs have unique needs that set them apart from fingers, and finger picks. The pick needs to stay in place, and we believe weve solved that problem, while enabling the end-user to use the flat pick of their choice by inserting it into the special pocket. A little information o... n the Ultimate FingerPick: If you play guitar, banjo, resonator, pedal steel, or any other stringed instrument where youd use a pick, you may have already experimented with various finger picking techniques to expand your playing styles. Most guitar players use a flat pick. Banjo and steel players use finger picks. Growing ones nails and adding a thumb pick to the mix is one common solution to gaining volume and tone from your thumb and fingers, since using the flesh part of your fingertips just does NOT produce the volume or tones that match up with that of a thumb pick. For those of us that just cant grow our nails with any consistency, or with the necessary strength to hold up to the steel strings, various finger picks have been introduced over the years into the marketplace. Also, acrylic nails, applied at the local nail salon, can serve a finger picker well, provided there is proper maintenance and under-the-nail fungus prevention. A percentage of the stringed instrument players in the world experiment with these types of artificial nails to double as finger picks. My fellow-inventor, Jim, even went through a phase where hed GLUE flat picks to his fingernails to try and achieve the tones he needed, since, as a professional guitar player, he has always preferred playing with thumb & multiple fingers, over using any of the available flat picks. Most of the aforementioned have their drawbacks and imperfections, with the biggest drawback of the various finger picks being that one is limited to the upstroke motion only; guitar players will relate, especially if they ever accidentally down-stroked and had the picks get ripped right off the end of their fingers! Flat ...Read More