Jim Dunlop 9073P Guitar Pick

Very good material ultex , Good price , Fast delivery . I recomended

I usually use the tortoise shell equivalent but in my opinion these are better. Great natural tone and good fit if you soak in hot water prior to fitting.

Good quality. I don’t find them very comfortable, solved by heating them gently over a candle and bending them. And the pick part is too long and pointy so required filing down to a size and shape that suits me better. But maybe this is standard for thumb picks, I’ve only owned one before and my guitar teacher back then (40 yrs ago) filed it down for me. I don’t know if other gauges are available, like with an ordinary pick. I could have used it being a bit softer, more pliable. They’re probably perfect for other players. I still think it’s a good product though, at a great price. How far wrong can you go...

Nice quality pick and I really like Ultex plectrums but they are too tight! My hands are really not that big but after 5 minutes using a large size I had blue thumb - far too tight! So, unusable for me sadly. Can't imagine what small is like.

Fine

Does what it says on the box

I ended up giving them to my nephew as they are too small for me, but I have big hands, really big hands. But the quality is there and my nephew was playing some blues and the bass runs were incredible on his Faith guitar. This is a good product, just be careful if your A 5XL guy like me

Just what I needed. Better tone and comfortability when using with banjo picking !!

Update 7/4/24: I've been learning how to do a Tommy Emmanuel/ Chet Atkins style thumb pick technique but part of the challenge is finding a pick that works. I've tried Nationals, Dunlop celluloid, Fred Kelly Slick and Bumblebee picks, John Pearse, and D'addario but all of them seem to have some issue if not several. Rather than speaking on what I don't like about the other picks, I'll just say that finding a pick that has a reasonable life, good tone, and can be shaped/manipulated has been a challenge. The most challenging is finding a pick that is comfortable, and that is largely what this review will be based upon. Just read reviews on all the different thumb picks and you will quickly learn (if you haven't from firsthand experience) that the main issue with them is COMFORT. Basically you will find they are mostly too tight- even the large sizes, and that reshaping can be hit and miss. I've since discovered Black Mountain picks and they are also outstanding, but my issue with them is that they don't have as strong a tone for what I'm after. These Dunlop pics are tight (I'm using the Large size), a little more tight than some of the above mentioned. However, I liked the feel, rigidity and tone enough to see if I can shape them and give them a chance. That is where I discovered my first issue- shaping this plastic. Ultex is VERY hard but I may have found my solution: **Ultex must be heated to 425 degrees before it will give up its properties and soften. A microwave is too inconsistent to achieve this and boiling water won't get hot enough. You need an oven, and a small toaster oven even better. Preheat your oven to 425 and thread the picks onto a dowel that is rougly the size of your thumb, facing the picks the same direction I happen to have a steel chisel that is just slightly larger than my thumb. . If you have a shallow, oven safe tray or cookware, cut the dowel just long enough to allow the picks to "float" above the tray and not touch the flat hot surface of anything (the same concept of roasting meat over an open campfire). Do this for at least two minutes, take out and run picks under iced or very cold water. If you find that once the material has cooled and still doesn't fit your thumb, you can do it again for longer, but 2 minutes is really all it took for me. **Shaping the paddle; the paddle is a little too long for my liking, but if you shorten them, make sure you don't go too short. If you do you risk catching the thumb wrap portion on your strings. Take a black Sharpie and draw a profile the same shape as the paddle edge however many mm you want to take off. I took off about 5-6 mm. You can use files to remove material until your Sharpie marks are gone, but I use a Dremel. File down any burrs with a micro-file, and finally smooth and bevel with my crystal Wolfram Crystal file, and finally micro mesh (which is the best nail file I've ever had, still have it after 8 years!). I think my search for the ultimate thumbpick that has good tone, solid feel, a controlled shaping ability, and also very economical is complete. Great product Dunlop!!

It is good but not appropriate for my thumbs

Veramente buoni nella suonabilita e nella conformazione del plettro ma in effetti considerato che è un Large ci voleva leggermente più largo

El sonido y el tacto va sobre gustos, pero a mi me gustan ambos en este material. El tamaño es pequeño. Yo tengo dedos pequeños y la talla M me va justa tirando a pequeña, pero me valen.

I quite like the thumb pick, it seems to grip the finger better then other plastics. I had no problem as others seem to have had with the pick size, the large fit just as well as the regular plastic. It seems a little thinner which took me about a half hour to get used to, but thats all. I do think that it will last longer. If I have a gripe its that if you drop it on the floor/rug it seems to disappear. So I don’t drop it.