Fingerpickers and nail problems

FinsburyParkCarrots
FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
edited September 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
How do you combat blistering and nails splitting, on your picking hand? Do you use plastic nails? False nails? Or do you wear your fingers out to the stump?

I've been playing for twenty years, so I'm no beginner, but I still get nail problems. Any tips? (Guitar player tips, I mean, not fingertips. I've still got those. Just.)
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Q: what did the leper say to the prostitute?

    A: keep the tip!!!



    can you varnish/lacquer them to harden them Finsy??? email Bert Jansch... he knows! ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    dunkman1974 wrote:
    Q: what did the leper say to the prostitute?

    A: keep the tip!!!



    can you varnish/lacquer them to harden them Finsy??? email Bert Jansch... he knows! ;)

    I could go to some blonde, beautiful salon woman, and ask for falsies - just on the one hand only - but she might give me funny looks. ("Do you need to feel like it's somebody else?") Anyway, enough of that. ;)
  • dylan rain
    dylan rain Posts: 35
    i know how you feel, my guitar instructor is insisting on a no pick policy.

    he says painting your nails with acrylic works just fine. It's been useful so far...

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