This thread is quite old, but I thought I might chime in. I haven't used a pick in about two years. I started getting really into guys like Andy McKee and Antoine Dufour, and since my band had broken up and I was playing a lot of fingerstyle, I bit the bullet and went down the street and had the vietnamese lady put acrylics on my right hand fingers. I went in there 3 times and watched this lady do the nails, and by then I was brave enough to do it myself with some stuff from walgreens. I've been doing it ever since and I could never go back. I use my index nail as a pick when i want to play pick-style stuff. I highly recommend it