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Location: GA USA | Wikipedia: A callus (or callosity) is an especially toughened area of skin which has become relatively thick and hard as a response to repeated contact or pressure.
Since starting WorkshopLive, I've been playing more and longer on acoustic than before, and I have pretty decent calluses right now. Sometimes they threaten to peel right off the end of my finger. In the past, I've always just peeled them off when they are ready. I'm trying my best to keep the current crop intact by sanding (with an emery board) the edges to get rid of the part that wants to lift off.
Anybody have secrets for callus maintenance? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I ignore them. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | If they peel, they peel. If I get a little "snaggy" that becomes annoying, I bite it off. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I plant flowers in mine. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I'm sure Avon make something for that... |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
I plant flowers in mine. :D |
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Location: NJ | I do the emery board as well. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | pussy. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
I plant flowers in mine. Uh Jeff,
Callous lily's? EEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!! |
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Location: NJ | MISTER Pussy, to you, Sir . . .
I mainly just sand'em down to keep them from getting snagged on the strings . . |
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Location: south east Michigan | Emery boards are for chicks.
I go back in the shop and tear off a strip of 80 grit, silicone carbide, electro-coated, emery cloth and have at it. |
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| Wire wheel on my bench grinder - the kind used to remove rust from metal bar stock. None of that PUassy crap for me. |
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Location: NJ | ". . I go back in the shop and tear off a strip of 80 grit, silicone carbide, electro-coated, emery cloth and have at it . . ."
We're talking "fingertips" here, Brad . . .
. . . not "hair care". |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Open the car door and drag them down the road. Takes them right off. |
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| I use Corn Huskers Lotion a couple of times a week. It's a heavy glycerin solution. It keeps the finger tips looking smooth and your hands feel soft. |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Emery boards are for chicks. And given your current reputation at work, you might try one.
Anybody else want me to send a package to your office from Captain Lovehandles, with the CLH smiley heart logo on it?
Oops, I edited after your "don't ask" post. But you didn't say "don't tell". |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Losers!
SWMBO takes care of mine. :D |
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Location: south east Michigan | And given your current reputation at work .... Inside joke tween me and the Captain...
Please... don't ask.
Note to Miles... make edit times shorter.
An envelope came to the shop from the Captain. The return address was from "Captain Lovehandles" and featured a little heart with wings.
Now the secretarys here are asking me about my out of town gay lover. |
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Location: GA USA | Last summer when I met Designzilla at his home, I was the first OFCer he'd met in person. When his daughter dropped by later, Donna said "Come meet the strange man Daddy met on the internet!" |
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| If you used decent strings you wouldn't get calluses. I play hours every day and I haven't got any. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Where do you get silk padded nylon strings?
this doesn't count either. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Fillhixx, I'm laughing my butt off. I actually had a guy come in here with one of those, and he wanted lessons! He claimed to have arthritis, and that was the only way he could play. I suggested he take up piano, or harmonica, or singing. It totally amazes me how ignorant some people are about music.
As far a callouses, I just leave mine alone. If they get rough on the edges and I'm tempted to pick them, I pick something else instead. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
If they get rough on the edges and I'm tempted to pick them, I pick something else instead. Canterbury, Canterbury, Canterbury... you should know better than to lob a line like that... |
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Location: GA USA | Go easy on the ladies. |
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Location: big island | "super-calloused agile digits can be quite atrocious" |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Go easy?
... ask her what her "Inspector" initials were. |
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Location: big island | so i use palmolive.
"it's so gentle, you're soaking in it" ~ madge |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
I just leave mine alone. If they get rough on the edges and I'm tempted to pick them, I pick something else instead. And that, ladies & gentlemen, is how my wife chose ME..... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | What'cha got here, is a six string autoharp
That only plays Country songs.
With three chords & The Truth. |
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Location: SoCal | My calluses harden, crack, peel off and then harden agasin. It's about a 2 week cycle. I just keep playing. If they're tender, then they'll stop being tender after awhile. When I'm playing in front of people I never even notice if they're tender.
Big deal..... |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Originally posted by Victor:
I use Corn Huskers Lotion a couple of times a week. It's a heavy glycerin solution. It keeps the finger tips looking smooth and your hands feel soft. WOW! They still make that stuff?
Good product that's been around for a LONG time. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Originally posted by Mitchrx:
Originally posted by Victor:
I use Corn Huskers Lotion a couple of times a week. It's a heavy glycerin solution. It keeps the finger tips looking smooth and your hands feel soft. WOW! They still make that stuff?
Good product that's been around for a LONG time. 
I'm sure that we sell it in the drugstore |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Wow, Jeff, did we work together? Yes, it's true, I kept my last name for a middle name when I was married, leaving me with rather interesting initials. However "that" is not what I'm picking. I'm a little disappointed that I didn't get more wise-"initial" comebacks on that line though. Where's Cliff? |
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Location: NJ | I had "one in the chamber", but Whitehead fired first . . .
It's AMAZING the amount of "info" we're able to ascertain 'round here, . . innitt?? |
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Location: SoCal | Obviously, hanging around with a trained detective has paid off for people on the board...... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | The rest of us just continue on with life as the clueless 'shrooms that we are. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Well, you get picked out in the line-up a few times you learn a few things... |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Obviously, hanging around with a trained detective has paid off for people on the board...... um.......
I couldn't say it. Paul's just too good a friend. |
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Location: NJ | ". . hanging around with a trained detective . ."
do y'KNOW any??? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I hadn't been playing any of my electrics for awhile...
I recently start playing the Oscar Schmidt Phony 335...
Now, those electric strings are real easy to play at first,
but after awhile those skinny strings start acting like a cheese-slicer on your finger-tips.
But I just said to myself that this is Good for my callouses. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | We Aussies are real tough, we just keep playing until all the finger tips are bleeding profusely. Then when you wake up in the morning you have a handy scab on each finger tip. 
Actually, I fall in the emery board camp, particularly when doing flick-offs when little catchy bits affect my playing. |
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Location: North Carolina | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
I ignore them. There ya go. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | what he said.... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | And now to the question, Capt Handle&Grettle, just keep using the emeryory board. I have some that Ed Gerhardt sells on his web site, 4 grits. I also have a 6" bastard file from the hardware store. I use that mostly for the nails on the right hand, after I build them up with super glue and acrylic powder. But as far as the the callouses just keep playing. Glad Workshoplive is working out for you. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | My fingers hurt! |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
Glad Workshoplive is working out for you. I feel like I'm getting some good stuff there. I've never done any fingerstyle playing before. Pat Johnson gives a good introduction to it.
And I fail often at implementing Matt's practice routine, but even when I fall short, I'm still better focused in my practicing than before. By the way, guys, Grayson Capps music is perfect for ear training practice. Tune to drop D and work on Wail & Ride. You'll say "I didn't know I could do that!" |
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Location: Winter Haven, FL | I chew mine off when they get in the way. Not as tasty as gum, but just as entertaining. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | ... and yet ANOTHER use for Cornhuskers! |
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Do you condition your callosity?