Callouses?

[beelzelboss]

so i've been playing for about three years, not consistenly, but i'm starting to again. I've gone through getting callouses then losing them, and the worst part, getting blisters.

I guess i have a few question for you guys about personal experiacnes with this stuff. First off, would you ever really get bad blisters then they turn into callouses, second, are yours really "hard as nails" as i've herd some people put it, or just "tougher" and last, do you think you can still get a blister if stop for how long?

Like i've had really hard ones, but then they got soft, but never again have i gotten a blister so its confusing me. Like right now i'm trying SO hard to get a callous on my ring finger of my right hand (fingering hand) but i just can't. Its because i need a consistent sound of it. So when i picked up my bass after a month of two of not playing, it would take me twenty minutes to get one on my middle finger, playing harder, but still. its been a week of HARD playing with my new 5 string, and still nothing. Any suggestions?

[nysbob]

If I take a weekend off gigging, I can come back the next weekend and be OK. Beyond that, I'm in trouble...so I make it a point to play some upright to keep them up. I can get them burning on upright in short order. Playing a bass guitar sitting down, doesn't do much either. I have play standing up and kind of hard like I'd do on the gig. Putting some time in beats going through that pain.


It's only taken me about 30 years to figure that out.

[bassrique]

Blisters - leave 'em / pop 'em / superglue ?