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For strummy strummy stuff I just use a dunlop .75mm (or whatever it is, the dark grey one).
For more flatpicking stuff, I use a brand whose name totally escapes me, supposed to be a poor mans bluechip. It's all white, if that helps.
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Fingerstyle with a little nail
Fingerstlye with thumb pick
Completely depends on what the music/style demands, and whether I'm amplified or not.
My current go to selection is the Dunlop Flex Triangle 1.14, and the D’Andea Celluloid Heavy (& sometimes Medium Heavy).
If I lose the thumbnail, I use a thumbpick, (worn high on the thumb nearly on the knuckle)
If I lose a finger nail, I tend not to play (acoustic) at all until it has grown a couple of mm
I cannot and do not like, playing with "fleshy bits"
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Strum using thumb and first finger.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Just remember that @bertie's definition of fleshy bits may be different
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
I do keep my nails at a particular length, just barely extending beyond the fingertip so that (when picking single notes) I can use all-flesh, or rotate my wrist a bit for some nail, or - a party-trick effect that I over-use shamelessly - flesh and nail with the tip of the finger and the nail, being a few mm apart, sounding separately but very close together. It sounds a bit like using a shark-tooth pick, sort of the acoustic equivalent of stepping on the overdrive pedal. Purists would be horrified. Classical players would probably shoot me. (It's the sort of silly thing that flamenco players do all the time and make work. Who knows? Maybe it's an actual proper technique with a fancy Spanish name!)
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Strumming varies depending on what I'm playing. Either thumb or back of the hand for downstrokes and a brush up with fingers for the up stroke.
None of the above is set in stone and can vary depending on the song and can in fact be a a combination of the above in the same song.
Picking and strumming with a Herco flex 75.
I sometimes strum with the back of my finger nails (down) and back of my thumbnail (up).