I’m bored by the selection of guitar picks offered by the Guitar Center. Are there any other reliable online sources of picks with wider selections? I’m looking for the old-fashioned, large, tortoiseshell-pattern picks, as well as novelty designs. (Is there any such thing as porn picks?)
Possibly not quite safe for work:
[noparse]Music Accessories | Musician's Friend
I buy a lot of picks from Big City Strings.
::grabbing popcorn and taking a seat, since I just uses Dunlop Tortex picks by the gross and so never look for picks online::
You routinely break Tortex picks? Jeez, no wonder you use 12s. 
Hi, anyone sitting here? I’ll trade you some Jujubees for some popcorn.
I don’t break Tortex picks, but they eventually get lost. There is a particular shape that is the only one I use, but it’s nearly impossible to find. I’ve used it for so long that I can no longer use anything else. I sound like a rank beginner with anything but that.
A guy at Daddy’s special ordered some for me. I went back a few weeks later and bought 10 and put them in my pocket. Then I went to the dentist, who turned me upside down in the chair. When I got home, I only had 2 picks left!
What I do is play them down - the end gets rounded off pretty quickly (a few hours of play), or if I am doing string scrapes, I wear a hole into the side-edge. Also, I pre-bend them: I take one, put the tip of my left thumb on the tortoise in the logo and use my right thumb and forefinger to bend the pick and put a bit of “dish” into it - something you can’t do with a standard Fender pick. My pick-hand thumb sits in that little bend - I have always called it “potato chipping the pick” - my buddies think I am nuts and hate using my picks as a result…I just started doing it because my old picks got worn in that way, so I decided to cut to the chase…
**tdn **- you got Dots? I love me some Dots.
That’s funny – I used to be like this, wedded to one obscure weight and shape of pick. Now I can adjust to almost anything (but seem to drift back to Fender-medium-celluloid-style eventually). I have Dunlop Jazz IIs that are older than my marriage, and I still pick them up sometimes, feel awkward for a bit, then adjust (although they’re not optimal for playing chucka chuka rhythm stuff).
For the OP:
All I ever use are Claytons (Acetal, rounded triangle). Here’s Musician’s Friend’s assortment:
They last a long time. I bang out chords with .38mm picks on ultralight phosphor bronze acoustics, usually D’Addario or Martin.
Anybody on the Dope use those clear V-Picks? They have ads in the git-mags and many folks online claim that it helps their playing and tone…but I guess I am skeptical…
I’ll trade you my popcorn AND my Dots for some Sno-Caps.
I have the same problem. My particular shape is the Tortex Sharp. I use them for bass. I feel naked without them. Used to be I only used the black ones (don’t remember the thickness), but then I couldn’t find those. Found some purple ones at GC (they never have sharps – this was a fluke). They are almost as good. Still have a handful of those, but pretty soon I may have to go and order some from Dunlop, even though they discourage (!) ordering directly from them.
Wow, I still have tortex picks from when I was a teenager! And my picking style is hardly dainty, but I’m obviously not in your class.
Ha! I have some of those yellow Fender Ms (which are pretty heavy Ms), which I think are not Tortex(?), and they do this “potato chipping” (good name) …and it drives me nuts! And of course your prefer them that way. Chuckle.
OTOH, Dots rock.
Ugh, can’t stand those Tortex tater chips. What I wish I could get more of are the Kradl picks–yellow teardrops with a stairstep ridge on each side that keeps them super-secure with even a light grip. The company appears to be defunct.
I have a bunch of these ( http://www.amazon.com/Dunlop-Tortex-Standard-Purple-1-14mm/dp/B0002GXKB8 ) Tortex X-Heavy picks that I’ve been using for probably 10 years. I guess I don’t get “bored” with my picks, and these heavy Tortex picks hardly seem to wear–I don’t use the same one all the time 'til it wears down, I just grab one out of the pile and toss it back in when I’m done, so they’re constantly rotated I guess.
Yeah, those (the purple one) are the ones I’ve had for, oh gosh, 25 years? They seem well-nigh indestructible and don’t wear AFAIK. But am I reading the green one right? 88mm! Hey, Wordman, I think we got a pick that will last you for life. Unfortunately it spans 5 strings.
Not a guitar player, but play a mountain dulcimer. Never buy picks - make my own out of old credit cards. Can get just the shape I want with some judicious snips of the scissors. And the price and availability can’t be beat.