dustdevil, I am sure the recipe will work with bigger cucumbers too. I do not use little gherkin cucumbers for pickles. It is not by choice. They do not sell them at our farmer's market.
I use biger ones, even 10-12 cm long. The same cucumbers I use for fermented pickles.
Worth, I buy pickles from time to time too, but I like to have some home made pickles in my pantry,