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Okay, done a little online search and found a few resources, but figured y'all might have some good input!
How did you maintain your callouses when you first started? I am developing them through practice, as was planned, but now the surface of them is getting very rough and peeling.
I was avoiding moisturizing, as I read on forums where people avoid it like the plague as it can set back your callous-building, but I am worried if I don't moisturize at least a little, my callouses will become nasty cracked messes, which will be as painful as if I didn't have callouses at all.
Do tell!
How did you maintain your callouses when you first started? I am developing them through practice, as was planned, but now the surface of them is getting very rough and peeling.
I was avoiding moisturizing, as I read on forums where people avoid it like the plague as it can set back your callous-building, but I am worried if I don't moisturize at least a little, my callouses will become nasty cracked messes, which will be as painful as if I didn't have callouses at all.
Do tell!
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Re: Speak to me of callouses
Wed, February 1, 2006 - 4:18 PMIf you play enough, lotion shouldn't be a problem. Put it on at night at bedtime and all day at work if want. Just don't play with lotion on your hands. Lotion want set you back. Not playing will. Funny, it always comes down to practice. If you put in 30 mins a day it shouldn't matter what you put on your hands. -
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Wed, February 1, 2006 - 6:05 PMIs it normal to have such peeling et al? I still am not sure if this is what they are supposed to be doing. -
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Re: Speak to me of callouses
Wed, February 1, 2006 - 6:22 PMyep we all go through it. Its a rite of passage
Youll also become compulsive about your nails being short too. -
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Re: Speak to me of callouses
Wed, February 1, 2006 - 6:39 PMHahaha! You caught me chewing them off yesterday, didn't you?
I was a big nailbiter until I was 17. Then I just...stopped. Cold turkey. And I have the most beautiful, strong nails. I never grow them terribly long, but they are a source of pride. So when I hacked them off a few weeks ago, I was heartbroken, and at the same time knew how much I was loving playing guitar if I was willing to cut them off.
Yesterday I noticed they were getting too long again as I was playing. Since I didn't want to stop, get up and get the nail clippers, I just chewed em off and kept going.
Things have changed. *grin* -
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Re: Speak to me of callouses
Thu, February 2, 2006 - 8:58 AMremember not to play if you recently got your hands wet, any moisture left in your fingers will rip them to pieces after a few chords.
once you get past the callous stage 6-9 months or so, the end of your fingers should develop thicker skin instead of masses of dried skin. -
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Re: Speak to me of callouses
Thu, February 2, 2006 - 9:51 AMThanks! Just what I was curious about!
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Re: Speak to me of callouses
Thu, February 2, 2006 - 6:02 PMFirst stage= redness and tenderness. Second stage= grooves and tenderness Third stage = You don't even think about it anymore. I can do dishes and go play a four set show and I can't tell the difference. But I'M OLD!!!!!! -
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Re: Speak to me of callouses
Sat, February 4, 2006 - 7:07 AMeventually the lower levels of dermis thicken and you don't have this dramatic cycle of hardening of the outside layers that crack and peel off...strum-on
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