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!Limitless Update!

Hey Everyone, A few bits today! Limitless Picks - pre-orders will be fulfilled first week of August The artwork for the Limitless packaging has arrived! I love it. This means I will start packing and shipping pre-orders first week of August! So if you want to be one of the first to have them, pre-order now! Remember, you can get more picks, cables and other goodies at the same time to bag a discount! Resonairr strings In case you need to stock on on strings, we now have some

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Precision Picks vs Regular Picks - is it worth it?

It's a fair question. A bag of 50 Dunlop Tortex picks costs £20-30. A 10-pack of Precision Picks costs £7.99. The maths isn't complicated — you're paying more for Precision Picks. So what are you actually getting for that money, and does it matter? What a Regular Pick Does Standard picks do the job. They hit the string. They make a sound. For a large proportion of guitarists, that's sufficient. The limitations only become apparent under specific conditions: — When you're play

Jul 112 min read

News This Week

New Pick! The new Limitless Pick Last week I announced we would be launching a new pick! I'm so excited to get this out there! We're working on the packaging now, and then we're going to be getting ready to distribute them. We will move to selling in 5 and 10 pick packs, but for the moment only 5s are available. So what is it about the Limitless that's going to blow your mind? Well, really it's two things. Firstly, all the tips! There are no other plectrums that offer multipl

Jul 42 min read

Stop the press! New Pick Incoming!

Hello! I have been waiting for what feels like a very long time to announce this, and I think now the time is right! This summer we are going to be releasing something totally new, and for what it does, we've named it the Limitless pick! This pick is not just for Precision and it's not a jack of all trades. It features three purposefully shaped tips; our Precision tip, an intermediate tip and a smooth tip, each which deliver connections to your instrument - so have the right

Jun 271 min read

The XL: Small Isn't For Everyone

There's an assumption baked into the precision pick market. It goes something like this: serious players use small picks. Small picks mean speed. Speed means skill. It's not entirely wrong. But it's not entirely right either. And it was causing a real problem at guitar shows. Dan's Guitar Store attends a lot of UK guitar shows. Bristol, Leeds, London, Coventry, Cardiff — plus Guitar Summit in Mannheim and more . That's a lot of hours behind a booth, talking to a lot of differ

Jun 202 min read

The Right Guitar Pick for Your Playing Style: A Complete Guide

There's no such thing as the best guitar pick. There's only the best guitar pick for you — for your style, your technique, your hands, and the music you play. Metal & Shred: Maximum Speed and Precision The pick: Precision Pick Mini (1.5mm nylon, Jazz-III footprint, UV-glow). The fastest pick in the range. Immediately adopted by Paul Templing of Gloryhammer at launch. UV glow means you won't lose it on a dark stage. Also consider: Premium Precision Pick (2mm or 3mm polycarbona

Jun 132 min read

Guitar Pick Shape - What Actually Happens When a Pick Hits a String

Most guitarists spend hours choosing their guitar, their amp, their pedals. Then they grab whatever pick is nearest and wonder why something feels slightly off. The pick is the first point of contact between you and the instrument. Everything that happens after — the tone, the attack, the speed, the control — starts at that edge. So what actually happens in the fraction of a second when a pick hits a string? The Contact Point When a pick strikes a string, three things happen

Jun 64 min read

Pre-Christmas Update!

Pre-Christmas Stock Update! This Christmas is looking to be our best-ever and we are very grateful for the growing love for the Precision Pick! However, that fast growing affection for our picks means that once again we risk running out of some of the biggest designs! So, since all of our picks are awesome and I really want to encourage you to explore the whole range, until the 20th December we’ve dropped the prices on key Tapered and Premium Precision Picks; and are also of

Dec 11, 20252 min read