I have a different sort of question, which is a bit odd. I have recently taken back up the guitar and I have a problem finger due to an industrial accident that happened many years ago. Essentially they had to cut out some of the top part of the internal flesh of the finger (a fretting finger on the left hand) in order to rebuild it, and it does not look as if it will ever grow calluses hard enough to make up for the loss of the original hard spungy tissue beneath. It means I cannot press cleanly down on a string, no matter how hard I press. I was thinking of trying a bandage, or a finger sheath, or a cap, or some other method of strengthening the tip of the finger -- but that means I would lose all feeling. (This sounds a bit like a condom problem!) Anyone ever have anything similar (I exempt the Django Reinhardts out there who may have completely lost fingers -- though I may have to refinger, the way things are going).

Yours, Peter T.