BoloPick Felt Picks for Ukulele 6 Pack (An Original Recipe)

Great little picks, very pleased with the performance of the picks, my ukulele has a mellowed sound when using the Bolopicks. I will be buying more in the near future .

I find them to soft and flexy.

I'm a guitar player so I do not normally use felt picks. Bought these to try out on my new ukulele. Still new at this instrument but these do seem to help make strumming a bit easier than a plastic pick.

Actually you should try it with hand slowly you will get used to it

Musicians can be particular about certain aspects of their tools. Strings, necks, instrument bodies, woods, etc. Picks are up there with the rest. Good thing about picks, they‘re relatively inexpensive to experiment with as you journey toward your ‘tone’ and playing style. I purchased the BoloPick synthetic felt picks because they were advertised as being “softer and smaller than typical felt picks”. I wanted a felt pick with more flex and thought this product could be the one. I was right on picking the Bolos, but first some rudimentary dimensions. -- BoloPick Synthetic Felt Pick Stats -------------------------------------- ~ Width: 1-1/8 inch ~ Length: 1-1/4 inch ~ Thickness: 1/8 inch My Other felt picks are the same exact-sized, are hard, and ‘Real-felt’ picks. But, they are really too stiff and inflexible for my taste. So much so that if you attempt to bend them they will snap. An advantage to a hard Real-felt pick is that it produces a softer sound than a plastic or nylon pick but you still get the quick attack of a hard pick. So that’s good, right? Yeah, depends on what your style of playing. The Others being as big as they are and so stiff there is little play when strumming the uke. The hard stiff felt picks are great for single string picking, or leads, but it feels like there is a piece of metal between my fingers when I play. They just don’t feel right in my hand. If they were smaller there might be a compromise there for some lead playing. The Bolo synthetic felt picks are the same exact thickness as my Other Stiff Real-felt picks. Difference is the Bolos give nicely and feel good between my fingers when I strum. The grip is just as good as Other uke felt picks but I still get the soft sound on those uke strings. The Bolo pick feels less cumbersome and much more comfortable than the Other Real-felt pick. So if you are used to having a little give, or bend, in your picks the Bolo picks are the ones for you. I would say they remind me of a medium gauge nylon pick, about 70mm thick. Enough give to allow a faster easier strum and stiff enough to allow some picking and grinning. When Bolo says they are 'synthetic' I don’t know exactly what that means. Just that they are not real felt, as far as I can go with the hypothesis. Real felt is a combo of fabrics compressed together. The Other felt picks I own are made of cotton and wool and are stiff as a board. So I am okay going non-organic with the ‘synthetic felt’ pick because they are what works well for me. 5 Stars for my find of the month due to its nice response, great feel between the fingers and a softer uke sound. The Others are just not my style but if you want a slightly louder sound and be able to pick the strings then go for the stiff hard unyielding felt pick. It’s all personal. Just have fun doing it.