Fred Kelly Picks D2-M-8 Delrin Slick Medium Guitar Pick (Pack of 8), Orange

Love these thumb picks! As another reviewer mentioned, many other thumb picks have a a wide piece that wraps around the thumb and often gets caught on the string (I was using Jim Dunlops but tried the other widely available picks; Dunlop was the best of the bunch IMO). This Slick Pick has a slimmer thumb wrap and does not catch the string -- really improved my thumb picking. I tried the lighter yellow Slick Pick but found that too light. This orange medium is right up my alley. Highly recommended!

Fred K Slick Pick feels so natural, I forget to take it off after a gig. The shorter length is perfect for fingerstyle, not the awkward, alien feel of other brands. The shorter length really makes picking more accurate. Does not interfere with tone. Being female, I have smaller hands, and the Medium size is perfect... just tight enough and doesn't slip. Buy several... they are like socks, and magically disappear. I try to keep one with every guitar.

I’ve been playing since the mid-70s. I started out then doing “Travis picking” with steel “National” fingerpicks. In the intervening years, I’ve tried various other kinds. Plastic picks, the wire-loop “butterfly” picks, etc. Even doing the James-Taylor type fiberglass nail wraps. These are pretty good. I ordered the medium size and they are a bit tight. But.. I immersed them for a minute or so in boiling water, stretched out a bit with a wedge (a pair of needle-nosed pliers) and then ran cold water over them. They took the slightly-larger “set” and now are more comfortable and still very secure. Tone is good, better than the rather sharp tone of metal picks. I bought the clear ones.... By most accounts the opaque models are very difficult to stretch/adjust.

These picks are great. Great tone, they sound much better than the scratchy sounding, long and thick competitors products. They come 8 to a package for the $8 bucks, not $8.00 each. I wear a size large in Dunlap white thumbpicks and a large in Planet Waves tortoiseshell picks. These picks in size medium/regular fit about the same as those. I also bought the the Fred Kelly size large in the orange, medium gage and they were too big. These picks have a shorter blade than most all of the other brands and I'm able to pick both up and down like a flat pick and strum. I have tried a ton of different thumpicks over the last few months and these are by far the best for me. FYI: You still need to personalize these: drop them in a cup of boiling water for a bit, shape them to preference, put it on your thumb and run it under cold water for a while to set the shape. Great product!

The only thumb pick I use.

It’s very tight. I tried to widen it in boiling water. Didn’t work well and is a hassle. I had to trim and sand it like every other thumb pick.

Last for a long time great quality

I adjusted to this pick in only a few minutes. It has brought out the sound of my acoustic parlor guitar. The fit is snug, as it should be, and comfortable.

I'm transitioning from bare thumb to thumb pick so I ordered Light, Medium and Heavy to experiment. The Heavy picks fit the tightest due to the thicker material but I may try heating it up to open the fit a bit. I had tried other thumb picks before and had to file down the pick as it stuck out too far for my taste. I did not have to do that with these picks. Overall, I'm very happy with the product and look forward to developing my skill using them.

Some say these Fred Kelly D2-M-8 Slicks are too tight but if so you can open them up by holding over a hot plate using pliers and gloves then bend them. I had to open these up a bit slightly tight and with the yellow large size Light guage large ones I had to close them down and sand the length of pick down. Some people say they used hot water to shape them but I found the hot plate worked better and these Fred Kelly ones are better than the Jim Dunlop ones. You get 8 picks so you can experiment to find what works best.

Excellent purchase!

Compared to Dunlop Ultex picks these are more comfortable on my thumb. They work great with a slightly brighter sound. Glides from string to string nicely. Cheaper than the Dunlop ones and made in the USA👍

They work great, I thought the pick part was a little small, but I got used to it in about 10 minutes