Alaska Pik Finger Guitar Pick Medium

by Alaska Pik

Product Features

• Patented design finger pick that utilizes your fingernail

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0002GO512
• Item model number: 5101
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,614 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

Experience a unique type of guitar pick that fits over the finger, under the nailTM on your finger or thumb. Perfect for all types of string instrument players including: classical, flamenco, guitars, harps & banjos. The Alaska Pik finger pick is available in either brass or plastic and sizes from small to large. We have a sizing chart to help you choose which Alaska Pik best fits your hand.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars works, but..., August 20, 2007

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C. Fanto "cfanto" (Tracy, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alaska Pik Finger Guitar Pick Medium

Used when playing on my nylon string classical guitar... After trial & error and much trimming & filing, I was able to get each of the picks (I had 4) the way I wanted them. I had to label each so I'd remember which went on which finger. Was pleased to use them for a few weeks and liked the fact that I didn't have to worry about chipping a nail or making myself bleed when I'd pick my nose... I mean, when I would scratch an itch. I then eventually decided to grow my fingernails back again... nothing beats the tactile feeling from your own fingernails for finger-picking (your guitar, that is).

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help for wimpy nails, January 12, 2011

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Juniper Tree (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alaska Pik Finger Guitar Pick Medium

I am a singer songwriter just getting into classical guitar, and have used these for years, to great effect. If you are a person like me whose nails are on the weak side, they are really a godsend, allowing you to dig in much more than normal nails allow. Granted, they are not as comfortable as using your real nails. I find that they tend to feel tight after more than an hour of practicing, and then I need to take a break, take them off, then return after five minutes or so. But for people like me whose own nails get pretty shredded by playing strongly on steel strings, these are, to my mind, the next best thing.

The reviews written above are right-- you do need to keep your nails long on your right hand for them to stay on. And it's important to get the right size. But I never manicure them or do anything to them, and for me they fit fine. (Maybe they work better on women? My hands may be smaller than the reviewer writing above.)

You should also know before buying-- they do sound slightly different. I don't notice it so much when practicing, but in recordings I can hear the difference. The attack sounds just has the smallest sound added to it, like you're hitting the string with something wider than a fingernail. Which is, of course, exactly what you're doing.

Anyway, I just wanted to chime in because there are such negative reviews here, and as someone who really relies on these, I'd hate for people who might really benefit from them to be turned away from buying.

Cheers!

(And no, I'm not an employee of Alaska Pik.)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If Only I'd Had These Years Ago, July 18, 2011

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Casey Stevens (South Carolina) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Alaska Pik Finger Guitar Pick Medium

Frankly, I'm a finger picker. I've always used a thumb pick and my own fingernails because no other finger type pick seemed to work. I'd tried acrylic polish to strengthen mine, even tried fake nails (thank you James Taylor for that tip). My own fingernails have always been my favorite pick, but fingernails aren't exactly made of steel. They break, they chip off, they tear off. Face it, they're prone to accidental damage. I found the Alaska Pik one day after damaging yet another index fingernail (just when I was getting to the best part of the song I was learning.) I found them right after they were introduced, through an article on a guitarist's website. When I got mine I couldn't believe how well they worked. Having small fingers, I ordered the correct size, they fit just tightly enough not to move. I had no filing or clipping or adjustments to make. What was left of my fingernail (not much, I'd really done it this time) slipped easily into the groove that holds the pick in place and gives it that "real fingernail" feeling as you play. I honestly couldn't be happier with this pick, it gives new life to my playing when the worst happens.