Have you ever had the problem of your fingers sticking to the strings?

[Holy War]

I mean on your plucking hand. I am using roundwounds and for whatever reason, my fingers like sticking to the strings when I play finger style. I was just wondering if there was anything to help prevent that from happening

[L-A]

It happens to me some times. On both roundwounds and flatwounds, but it fades off after a few minutes of playing.

[uethanian]

what kind of rounds? my fingers stick to steel, but on nickel its smooth flying.

oh, and get some nose grease on those fingers

[Stumbo]

If you haven't already, try cleaning the strings and washing your hands before playing.

[artistanbul]

new steels are kinda sticky

[Holy War]

Originally Posted by uethanian

what kind of rounds? my fingers stick to steel, but on nickel its smooth flying.

oh, and get some nose grease on those fingers

ya, ive been using nose grease. I have some string conditioner as well that I may put on there, see what happens

[wizay]

yeah. Ive noticed that too. It helps with anti-grease soap that you use when u wash forks, knives, plates and stuff

But id love to find strings that aren't sticky..

[tabufx50]

yeah you can use some finger grease out there that is sold at guitar shops that help. Also I use regular hand lotion before I play and it seems to work pretty sweet.

[phat daddy]

It sounds like you're probably playing stainless steel strings, they get sticky especially when they're new-- try some nickels-- not quite as bright as stainless but much warmer and not sticky at all. In fact nickel is much easier on the fingers as well; you won't have to blister before you build a callous.

[artistanbul]

Originally Posted by phat daddy

It sounds like you're probably playing stainless steel strings, they get sticky especially when they're new-- try some nickels-- not quite as bright as stainless but much warmer and not sticky at all. In fact nickel is much easier on the fingers as well; you won't have to blister before you build a callous.

I agree. about callouses though, you don't have to blister before you build them. in fact blistering is bad for building callouses. though rarely people take their time.