I'll have to give this one a try.

Don’t do this though. I accidentally swallowed a pick doing something like this in high school, and I choked. It blocked my wind pipe and I was basically fucked. Thank god someone was there and witnessed it, and my English teacher had to basically dry hump me, but thank fuck he was able to get it dislodged. I was fading hard.

Also wasn’t good for trying to pick the babe that sat in front of me up. I don’t think she was able to get the image of that whole event out of her head after that, and it really salted my game. Or at least that’s what I still tell myself, here 30 years later.

Gross. You can also learn to tuck the pick into your bent middle finger. The guitarist from The Police did this when switching between picking and finger picking, like for things like artificial harmonics, which require an available thumb and finger on your right hand. (I suppose you could do it with just two fingers on the right hand, but that would be crazy.)

Your comment about your fretting hand giving you problems is kinda why I was looking at strandberg in the first place. I picked up skateboarding as a Covid hobby and my 30 year old wrist didn’t like falling on it, that left me in a similar situation to you where I could get a half hour of low intensity playing before it was just too uncomfortable to keep going. They advertise their neck profile is some hyper ergonomic design, and maybe I drank the koolaid but I swear it made a huge difference. I’m finally back to normal and I still find it more comfortable to play than my traditional necked instruments.

Maybe I’ll do a lil writeup.