Talk me out of buying this

[Rev. Rye]

Depending on what guitar I'm playing, I'll use Tortex, Ultex, or nylons, never thinner than .60 and never fatter than .88, unless I'm experimenting, which I do regularly.

Never played a real tortoise-shell pick. I was more concerned about the truly important stuff, like "pickguard on or off?"

I prefer much fatter picks, something that doesn't create a lot of flapping sounds when the picks hit the strings.  I remember listening to the rhythm sound on Syd Barrett's "Terrapin," where the flapping sound was actually about as prominent as the actual guitar. I thought it enhanced the rawness of the song, but it just wasn't something that worked for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZaZaWcdtbY

Using most picks, I tended to not like the feeling of the thin picks (especially their flappiness) and gave up on using picks altogether until I read a Guitar One article about a real life "Pick of Destiny" (Yes, this was around the time of the Tenacious D movie): The Dunlop Jazz III. I bought some black Jazz IIIs and found that a lot of the things I disliked about most standard picks were mitigated (particularly the 1.38 mm thickness and stiff nylon, since replaced in my arsenal with Ultex, mostly 2.0 mm with some 1.38's). Only recently (largely out of my interest in figuring out what the blues greats of yore used and then, after figuring out what worked for me, moving on from there) did I decide to look back. I actually remember feeling some Tortex picks out at a music store a few weeks ago, and thinking that, while they did feel a lot less awkward the heavier they got, even the Purple (their heaviest) didn't feel quite right.