Getting a grip on flatpicks & building nails

Subject: Getting a grip on flatpicks & building nails
From: Mr. Bojangles
Date: 26 Sep 98 - 10:48 PM

On steel strings I used to break or split my fingernails and found no repair remedy until I went to my dentist one day who saw my plight and gave me some Dental Acrylic Repair Plaster---a powder soluble in a solution that he also provided. I built myself a nail in a few minutes using the paste that the mixture produces before drying in less than ten minutes. The stuff worked like a charm after being appropriately shaped (mostly with emory boards). I could usually build a better playing nail than I could grow. The stuff adheres vigorously to the nail beneath and should be removedin 2-3 weeks to let the nail beneath breathe. I have never lost a nail. A more secure grip on flatpicks I discovered can be obtained by painting the grip area with fingernail polish and then immediately dipping the painted picks into a very fine sand of the sort that is found in the ashtrays at he bottom of elevators in the better hotels.

Peter Stanley (Alias, Bojangles)

Subject: Getting a grip on flatpicks & building nails
From: Mr. Bojangles
Date: 26 Sep 98 - 10:48 PM

On steel strings I used to break or split my fingernails and found no repair remedy until I went to my dentist one day who saw my plight and gave me some Dental Acrylic Repair Plaster---a powder soluble in a solution that he also provided. I built myself a nail in a few minutes using the paste that the mixture produces before drying in less than ten minutes. The stuff worked like a charm after being appropriately shaped (mostly with emory boards). I could usually build a better playing nail than I could grow. The stuff adheres vigorously to the nail beneath and should be removedin 2-3 weeks to let the nail beneath breathe. I have never lost a nail. A more secure grip on flatpicks I discovered can be obtained by painting the grip area with fingernail polish and then immediately dipping the painted picks into a very fine sand of the sort that is found in the ashtrays at he bottom of elevators in the better hotels.

Peter Stanley (Alias, Bojangles)

Subject: Getting a grip on flatpicks & building nails
From: Mr. Bojangles
Date: 26 Sep 98 - 10:48 PM

On steel strings I used to break or split my fingernails and found no repair remedy until I went to my dentist one day who saw my plight and gave me some Dental Acrylic Repair Plaster---a powder soluble in a solution that he also provided. I built myself a nail in a few minutes using the paste that the mixture produces before drying in less than ten minutes. The stuff worked like a charm after being appropriately shaped (mostly with emory boards). I could usually build a better playing nail than I could grow. The stuff adheres vigorously to the nail beneath and should be removedin 2-3 weeks to let the nail beneath breathe. I have never lost a nail. A more secure grip on flatpicks I discovered can be obtained by painting the grip area with fingernail polish and then immediately dipping the painted picks into a very fine sand of the sort that is found in the ashtrays at he bottom of elevators in the better hotels.

Peter Stanley (Alias, Bojangles)

Subject: Getting a grip on flatpicks & building nails
From: Mr. Bojangles
Date: 26 Sep 98 - 10:48 PM

On steel strings I used to break or split my fingernails and found no repair remedy until I went to my dentist one day who saw my plight and gave me some Dental Acrylic Repair Plaster---a powder soluble in a solution that he also provided. I built myself a nail in a few minutes using the paste that the mixture produces before drying in less than ten minutes. The stuff worked like a charm after being appropriately shaped (mostly with emory boards). I could usually build a better playing nail than I could grow. The stuff adheres vigorously to the nail beneath and should be removedin 2-3 weeks to let the nail beneath breathe. I have never lost a nail. A more secure grip on flatpicks I discovered can be obtained by painting the grip area with fingernail polish and then immediately dipping the painted picks into a very fine sand of the sort that is found in the ashtrays at he bottom of elevators in the better hotels.

Peter Stanley (Alias, Bojangles)

Subject: Getting a grip on flatpicks & building nails
From: Mr. Bojangles
Date: 26 Sep 98 - 10:48 PM

On steel strings I used to break or split my fingernails and found no repair remedy until I went to my dentist one day who saw my plight and gave me some Dental Acrylic Repair Plaster---a powder soluble in a solution that he also provided. I built myself a nail in a few minutes using the paste that the mixture produces before drying in less than ten minutes. The stuff worked like a charm after being appropriately shaped (mostly with emory boards). I could usually build a better playing nail than I could grow. The stuff adheres vigorously to the nail beneath and should be removedin 2-3 weeks to let the nail beneath breathe. I have never lost a nail. A more secure grip on flatpicks I discovered can be obtained by painting the grip area with fingernail polish and then immediately dipping the painted picks into a very fine sand of the sort that is found in the ashtrays at he bottom of elevators in the better hotels.

Peter Stanley (Alias, Bojangles)

Subject: RE: Getting a grip on flatpicks & building nails
From: BSeed
Date: 27 Sep 98 - 12:44 AM

Great advice, Bojangles, fully worthy of being posted five times. I think manicurists use the same kind of acryllic powder--I had my nails built up in a nail salon for a while until I realized that the manicurist was filing my own nails paper thin before applying the acryllic, probably to make it necessary that I keep coming back. You said nothing about sanding your nails prior to application of the acryllic: it isn't necessary? --seed