Spudro
12-29-2008, 09:40 AM
It's nothing new and oh how I wish I could find the real thing, but I can't live without a "Sharkfin" (70's) style pick. I'm all out of the real thing... I mean the really real thing, not the crap you can find on eBay. Stig Landstrom, the inventor died in 2007.
http://toguitars.com/blogbilder/07-09/stig-landstrom.jpg
The pick company went out of business a mess o' years before Mr Landstrom passed away. The sheet stock and cutting dies just got lost in the shuffle. The eBay crap that uses the name Landstrom could very well be "licensed" and cut to the exact dimensions of the really real Sharkfins, but they have abandoned the perfect sheet stock they were cut from and went to a completely unexciting "nylon" like material. The closest reminder material wise of the real deal are some model of Clayton picks, white and kind of rounded off triangular shape. The shape doesn't work for me, but the pick material is great stuff.
In the mid 80's Dunlop came out with a Tortex Sharkfin knockoff.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b354/spudro/2234.jpg
Back then I still had a few of the original real Sharkfins from the 70's and at first I really preferred my real Sharkfins to the Dunlop copy by a wide margin. The Dunlop dimensions are slightly different. "Real" Sharkfins were slightly longer and not as tall if holding the pick with the teeth facing downward.
Fast forward a decade or so... I no longer have real Sharkfins. I have grown used to the Dunlop "fins". Now the Dunlop fins are the best thing out there and I have literally purchased hundreds of them, I'm totally serious. I'd say that I own about 400 of them for when they disappear from the face of the earth again. But I know that they could be better. Much, much better. I'm just afraid that if I really invested the effort and bux that it would take to find the right sheet stock and somehow obtain permission to use Mr Landstrom's original dimensions, my "Sharkfins" would meet the same fate as the inventor's.
But at least I would have made myself a lifetime supply.
Rest in peace Stig Landstrom. Thank you for inventing the right pick.
scolfax
01-27-2009, 10:12 PM
Dunlop Ultex (.73 for me)
noizyb
02-25-2009, 07:32 PM
intune picks
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Delrin Picks with a matte finish for superior grip.
the best hands down !
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girevik
02-26-2009, 09:17 AM
Dunlop Jazz III, Eric Johnson edition
TheGareth
03-21-2009, 09:50 AM
What a delightfully unusual topic.
I have been using the Dunlop Small Stubby 3mm pick and I have also been playing around with the Landstrom Sharkfin pick. I use the black extra heavy one and it's pretty good.