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11 Oct 01 - 10:27 PM (#570207) Subject: callous From: 53 tip on how to build and keep good callouses, rub acholol on your fingertips about 3 times a day and that will help keep the skin dry and help with the callous. bob |
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11 Oct 01 - 10:31 PM (#570209) Subject: RE: callous From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Why would I want to make a callous on my fingers on purpose? |
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11 Oct 01 - 10:33 PM (#570212) Subject: RE: callous From: Allan C. We had a good discussion about this a couple of years ago. Clicky |
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11 Oct 01 - 10:33 PM (#570214) Subject: RE: callous From: 53 this is for playing the guitar, don't you play one? bob |
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11 Oct 01 - 10:34 PM (#570215) Subject: RE: callous From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull No I play a whistle, well I try to! :-) |
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11 Oct 01 - 10:36 PM (#570216) Subject: RE: callous From: 53 o k thanks for the info. bob |
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11 Oct 01 - 10:38 PM (#570218) Subject: RE: callous From: 53 this is now , not a couple of years ago, allan c. bob |
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11 Oct 01 - 10:54 PM (#570227) Subject: RE: callous From: rangeroger Gee,Bob,don't you think information garnered from a couple of years ago could still be pertinent today? rr |
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11 Oct 01 - 10:55 PM (#570229) Subject: RE: callous From: 53 yes, |
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11 Oct 01 - 11:16 PM (#570236) Subject: RE: callous From: Lepus Rex Well, I don't play guitar, either, but I'm wondering: Won't drying out your fingertips just make the skin split? When my hands get too dry, the skin splits along the fingerprint, which is a painful bitch. Or is that the idea? Again, I'm ignorant here. :) ---Lepus Rex |
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11 Oct 01 - 11:57 PM (#570247) Subject: RE: callous From: Murray MacLeod I always found the alcohol to be more effective in dulling the pain in the fingertips when applied internally. Murray |
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12 Oct 01 - 12:04 AM (#570248) Subject: RE: callous From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull I agree! :-) |
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12 Oct 01 - 12:17 AM (#570255) Subject: RE: callous From: Sorcha When my calluses get to heavy (fiddle) they peel from the top down to new skin. Alcohol doesn't help. Just cracks/peels them worse. Try teething gel for "new" fingers. The liquid doesn't work, just the jell. On the west side of the pond, it's sold as Ambesol. |
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12 Oct 01 - 03:28 AM (#570316) Subject: RE: callous From: BlueJay Allan C.- Thanks for the link,good thread. As Rick Fielding observed in that thread, a proper instrument set up is more important than having thick calluses. I agree. My calluses are usually thin, but I have never told myself, "I wish I had thicker calluses so I wouldn't have to fix this guitar". I get along just fine without massive calluses, even when playing bass. Calluses are dead skin cells. They come and go, but are always replaced by living cells. I suppose that the dehydrating effect of alcohol, saltwater etc would reduce the natural osmotic moisturizing of these dead cells, but to me that seems extreme, is very temporary, and not nearly as effective as just playing regularly. I don't see the need for big, thick calluses, at least for my style of playing. My calluses seem to come and go as needed. This is probably the most thought I've ever given to calluses. My fingertips have never split or bled, but maybe I just have lucky skin. Thanks, BlueJay |
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12 Oct 01 - 03:33 AM (#570318) Subject: RE: callous From: Clinton Hammond My fingering calluses are so thick I can pick up hot coals... But for the real marathons... (5 gigs in 3 days... this was pre sept 11th) when my fingertips needed a little help, Krazy glue did the trick just nicely... Good enough for James Keelaghan, Garnet Rogers, Bruce Cockburn and Stephen Fearing is damn good enough for me! ;-) |
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12 Oct 01 - 06:17 AM (#570360) Subject: RE: callous From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler To get lips ready for kazoo playing, pass alcohol through them each day. RtS (the only "musical" tip I'm qualified to give anyone!) |
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12 Oct 01 - 09:58 AM (#570460) Subject: RE: callous From: A Wandering Minstrel I find I get the very best results from the Bodhran when I've immmersed my tongue iin about 2 pints of Guinness ;) |
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12 Oct 01 - 10:30 AM (#570480) Subject: RE: callous From: GUEST There is a product called "New Skin", or something similar, very popular among hikers, especially novices, for preventing blisters. Seems like it could be helpful in respect to developing callouses on the fingers as well. |
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12 Oct 01 - 01:01 PM (#570611) Subject: RE: callous From: 53 sounds like a bunch of drunks. bob |
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12 Oct 01 - 01:47 PM (#570654) Subject: RE: callous From: Jack the Sailor But were they drunks two years ago? |
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12 Oct 01 - 02:53 PM (#570717) Subject: RE: callous From: M.Ted Good technique minimizes the occurance of callouses--they are not necessary to play, and. like hand cramps and thumb blisters, they are a side effect of the learning process--as your techique develops, they are much reduced--Every once in a while, I break up discussions about building up callouses by simply showing my hands, in my fourth decade of guitar playing, my fingertips look just like a regular human's--They weren't always like that, though-- |
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12 Oct 01 - 04:04 PM (#570741) Subject: RE: callous From: GUEST,frankie I'm only in my third decade of playing M Ted but I've also lost the big callouses I used to have even though I play more than ever. I use to soak my left hand fingers in pickle brine because I think I read somewhere that Kottke did it. I don't know if it helped but I did develop a lifelong love for Claussen Deli pickles. f |
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12 Oct 01 - 04:50 PM (#570778) Subject: RE: callous From: 53 you are a better player than i, if you can play the acoustic guitar without any callous, please share your secret and it has to do with more than just technique. bob |
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12 Oct 01 - 04:55 PM (#570782) Subject: RE: callous From: Steve in Idaho I'm with 53 - how do you play without callous's? Mine are not real large and ugly - but they shed regularly. Steve |
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12 Oct 01 - 05:32 PM (#570810) Subject: RE: callous From: M.Ted Just don't make a mistake and eat your fingers! |
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12 Oct 01 - 09:06 PM (#570945) Subject: RE: callous From: Ebbie I too would like to know how to avoid calluses when you are an acoustic guitar player. (That is, and still play without pain!) Ebbie |
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12 Oct 01 - 10:05 PM (#570979) Subject: RE: callous From: 53 you still haven't explained your way of playing without callous. bob |
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12 Oct 01 - 10:17 PM (#570986) Subject: RE: callous From: M.Ted There are a a couple threads where I have posted information on how to hold and how to chord a guitar with reduced fatigue and increased speed--it is really hard to describe these techniques in writing, but part of the secret is to get a proper grip on the neck so that when your fingers hit the strings, the tips are at an angle rather than perpendicular to the fretboard, at little more of your fingerpad touches the string, and you tend more to squeeze and release the string down than to strike and squeeze--- |
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12 Oct 01 - 10:21 PM (#570987) Subject: RE: callous From: 53 thank you for that info. bob |
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12 Oct 01 - 11:50 PM (#571047) Subject: RE: callous From: M.Ted I only hope that it made sense-- |
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13 Oct 01 - 10:30 AM (#571190) Subject: RE: callous From: 53 it helped. bob |
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13 Oct 01 - 10:50 AM (#571202) Subject: RE: callous From: 53 my callouses often itch to play and i love to scratch them by playing until the itch is satisfied. does that make any sense to anybody? bob |
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13 Oct 01 - 11:29 PM (#571571) Subject: RE: callous From: 53 seems like nobody else has an itch to play, too bad |
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21 Jul 04 - 06:27 PM (#1230920) Subject: RE: callous From: GUEST,man how long does it usually take for callouses to appear. If you get them the "natural" way? |
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21 Jul 04 - 07:44 PM (#1230964) Subject: RE: callous From: Clinton Hammond I'd imagine that's as varied a time as guitar players... Everyone has different skin... different playing 'styles'... different guage strings... Different stamina when starting out... Just play... Callouses will come... |
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21 Jul 04 - 07:48 PM (#1230967) Subject: RE: callous From: Mr Happy 'rub acholol on your fingertips' What's acholol? |
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21 Jul 04 - 08:44 PM (#1230997) Subject: RE: callous From: Clinton Hammond An obvious typo Mr H... Don't be a pedantic idiot... |
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21 Jul 04 - 10:05 PM (#1231040) Subject: RE: callous From: dick greenhaus After playing acoustic guitar for some 60 years (without noticeable callouses), I can only note that proper finger placement (as close to the fret as possible) and a well set up instrument is really all that's needed. |
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22 Jul 04 - 03:59 AM (#1231177) Subject: RE: callous From: Mark Cohen Oh, well, as long as we're being pedantic: callus, n., a thickened area of skin, resulting from recurrent pressure or friction callous, adj., hard or thick, unfeeling, uncaring Same derivation, different words. Aloha, Mark |
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12 Oct 11 - 09:33 AM (#3237789) Subject: RE: callous From: GUEST,joe caz Is there a correct angle or an angle that indicates correct hand position? I am a beginner(2 weeks) and I see the lines from the strings in my fingertips and I was wondering if the angle of the line indicates if I am holding correctly? |
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12 Oct 11 - 02:55 PM (#3237936) Subject: RE: callous From: GUEST Everyone has different techniques, for different styles. If there are no dead notes, and your finger isn't touching the string other than the one you're playing that's good enough to begin with. If you think about the chord shapes you're making, the string lines on your fingers aren't going to be consistant anyway. Mike |