A busy week! I’ve been doing a ton of site work and hope it shows soon. So what better time to take on hard work than as a Cone-Head Fan? So let’s proceed to look at a conical-headed guitar “Pick”!

Sorry to delay this Dimensio Guitar picks review. I have a lot to say here…

Roctober:

Author’s Note: The maker of this innovative pick has notified me that his page is down temporarily as he will commence taking orders in a week or two again.

Digging deeper: Something we were all waiting for. Or, well maybe not all of you, but a special some of you for sure. Especially you aging and new guitarists! The Dimensio Conical Stay-Put guitar pick should be a curious item for us.

A player’s aid pick, the Dimensio Conical Stay-Put guitar pick…

“So where do we start,” I thought, “maybe I should dig deeper on innovative designs meant to help my playing…”

I got started at the beginning of all this hoodoo and voodoo on picks because I yearned for “The” Pick, the “one to rule them all”. You’ve heard me talk about this before. I felt a few years ago that I needed a pick that would universally solve my problems…

-Well, I’m still here to confess that I don’t believe there is such a pick, HOWEVER...

Yes, there ARE “Holy Grail Picks” (see my first review on this site), there are engineered and sculpted picks (that work for some guys, while not for others), and there are plain ordinary picks that work just fine with many more experienced players.

But what is the problem I am talking about?

I think you know: Picks spinning around in your fingers, flying out of your fingers, moving away from the strings, and so on. Therefore, I accepted the request to try The Dimensio Conical Stay-Put guitar pick. …

I’ve tried a LOT of picks and each handles the problem differently and to varying degrees, but let me be clear, with any pick (or any camera or any boat or any job) there are trade-offs.

With Photography, if you want the same exposure and reduce dwell (how long the shutter stays open) time, then you have to increase the aperture (the hole for the light being bigger) or the reverse of the two. The more sour food is, the more a cook will want to add sweetness. The list goes on and on…

My first solution pick was one made of Vespel and it will be in a review sometime during the Winter, in a few weeks. It worked but worked because of three trade-offs that I will talk about when the time comes.

There are hugely thick or hugely wide picks for grip. And then, there are embossed and relieved picks for grip. And beyond that, there are materials for grip, for picks, and adding to picks.

And then there are special shapes of picks. Well, the latter is what the great idea maker of Dimensio Picks envisioned.

As you can see in the photos,

you get a partly conical, partly barrel-shaped orange pick made on a 3d printer and it must be fitted to your size index finger. They are sized for your given finger:

I’m about 17.5-18.5 My brother-in-law is 19.5. The inventor sent me 4 sizes to be safe and I think one of the difficult things with this is sizing. Measuring is key, but I think he needs a method more people can use effectively for that purpose.

So what about this thing​? Well, I’m here to tell you that the Dimensio Conical Stay-Put guitar pick does work, but there are, yes, you guessed it, trade-offs.

Here is a list of them:

1. Your finger will sweat and get warmer
2. Because of the design, the cone prevents your finger approaching the pick tip as close as some might want.
3. It feels weird and takes getting used to (however, for me, I have no problems except some loss of dexterity).
4. It’s not as precise as a JazzIII pick or a teardrop or a 551.
5. If you lose it on stage, you better have a spare or be good with something else.
6. It’s not in stores, at least not yet.
7. It has to be sized for YOU.
8. It makes a bit of a scratchy and chirpy tone, though the chirp is fairly small.
9. It’s plastic, you might want some other material.
10. It looks like a false nail on your finger and that’s fine if you are a glam guitarist, hah hah.

But the list of benefits is there also:

1. It’s mostly comfortable.
2. It won’t spin inwards.
3. It won’t slide away.
4. If you drop it, it’s easily found.
5. It’s very affordable.
6. It offers a decent tone for some styles of music.
7. It’s thick enough for picking and yet the double tip allows pretty decent strumming and alternate picking.
8. It seems super durable.
9. It’s cool and wacky and will get you lots of comments and people will come up to you to ask.
10. It doesn’t require strong fingers/muscles and helps with fatigue *except that I experience slight fatigue at the base of my thumb with extended playing (of course, muscles must be toned, so that problem will go away).

Moving on, let’s look at the specs, what do you think?

Material	Attack Tone	Decay Tone
3d printer plastic	firm not delicate	rings
Durability/Wear	Comments/Dimensions	Shape
Darned Durable	Durometer at 58 H Shore D	Conical with custom bevels
Grip and Feel	Flexibility	Likely Use
Extremely good But Fatiguing	None, very firm	Artheritis shaky hands weak hands new players
Thickness	Width and Height	Resonance
1.11mm	8.26 @ Tip 18mm @ inside cone	Hard plasticy loud
Tip Style	Bevel?	Approx. Cost
Custom narrowed dual tip	long down bevel short up bevel custom	$15.00 US Free Shipping On Etsy

As for styles of music, I don’t suppose a hybrid picker will be able to use one, but for music that requires strumming and picking or alternate picking that isn’t too way fast, this is in the zone.

The Dimensio Guitar Pick lends a well-rounded firm tone, a touch deep, a little scrape, and a little chirp, but more hard rocky than Jazzy. If you have a well-used flattop, it should be fine on it, but it wouldn’t be my first choice in such an instance.

Think of this pick as a finger pick in a way. You still must use your thumb and forefinger to pinch it. I suppose you could even get 5 of them and try doing that too!

All in all, I’ve been enjoying mine but it won’t be my “do-all “either.

For you arthritics such as me, or you fumblers (also like me), you should get this thing and give it a good whirl. But you Pros who are self-conscious and don’t like setting trends, stay away, but by all means, you septuagenarians, don’t scoff, give this a real shot!

Coming up in the next review, we take a sharp 90-degree turn and try something mellow yellow that does something different that some of you will like. See you then, or sooner with an update!

Now, proceeding with what YOU guys think:

1. Do you prefer traditional 351 picks?
2. Do you prefer custom pick shapes to help grip?
3. Do you want more reviews on custom picks?