Bass Injuries.

[anthowl]

does or has anyone experianced that while playing bass for prolonged periods, some skin on your picking forarm gets friction burn and your skin comes off
from it rubbing the body of the bass?

thats happened to me two weeks running and i beleive it's from when i use a pick. but don't be a smartass, i use fingers also.

just wondered if anyone else gets that.
i have pics if further discription is needed.

[nsmar4211]

I'm wondering if that's actually prickly heat and not a friction burn?

My bass bodies wouldn't be able to friction burn me, they're smooth and either my skin is dry and slides over it or I'm sweating and I still slide..... however, long times of practicing could cause a heat rash (and those suck).

Or perhaps you're allergic to something on your bass?

[GianGian]

Maybe your skin is dehidratated, so it gets "damaged" easily.

[anthowl]

prickly heat? no idea. my bass is smooth also but not quite the right smooth to slide around and this has happened at practice twice and i wasnt all that sweaty.
i've been playing this bass for a few years so i dunno and all the paint is sealed so i doupt i'm alergic and it's the underside of my wrist so it's kinda tender..

but my skin aint dry either.

i could post a photo?

[GianGian]

Originally Posted by anthowl

prickly heat? no idea. my bass is smooth also but not quite the right smooth to slide around and this has happened at practice twice and i wasnt all that sweaty.
i've been playing this bass for a few years so i dunno and all the paint is sealed so i doupt i'm alergic and it's the underside of my wrist so it's kinda tender..

but my skin aint dry either.

i could post a photo?

Post the pic. And one of the bass too if possible.

[MarkTAW]

Get a wristband of some sort?

[sevenyearsdown]

Originally Posted by anthowl

does or has anyone experianced that while playing bass for prolonged periods, some skin on your picking forarm gets friction burn and your skin comes off
from it rubbing the body of the bass?

thats happened to me two weeks running and i beleive it's from when i use a pick. but don't be a smartass, i use fingers also.

just wondered if anyone else gets that.
i have pics if further discription is needed.

I know what you're talking about. Back in my younger, "punk rock" days I used to this all the time. Either the ball of my wrist would blood blister, or the inside of the forearm/wrist area would get all hamburgered up. A slight adjustment of the strap fixed the problem....and so did me not playing crappy punk.

[anthowl]

haha! well interestingly enough this has occured while i've been playing with a punk band! lol. but i don't limit myself to that specific genre.

a wrist band would probably annoy me a bit, but i havent tried it yet as i've been playing finger style. aslo i upped my strap a bit.

lemmie find a pic of the bass online

also this pic is a bit blury but ya get the idea.

[anthowl]

okay, this is the bass.
it's a crappy discontinued j&d luthiers.

i'll soon be replacing it with a cort B5

[GianGian]

WOW! I think it was some minor injury, not something with blood showing up! Try to move only your wrist when you play with the pick, you must be a very violent player! The bass looks OK, it must be something do to with your posture really.

[cnltb]

...another "Wow"...i've never seen this kind of thing before. you must have a very special way of playing...
I personally don't really rest my fore arm on my bass-that may be a solution to your problem?

[anthowl]

actualy i'm not a violent player at all! i do play from the wrist but that is indeed what causes my arm to rubb against the body so.

and yer, lol, it is literaly a bass 'injury'. no overstatement.

as ya can see it only in one spot realy so i dunno. in terms of playing style i actualy am a fan of using light picking to acheive some of it's best effects!

and i've never had this problem on guitar :S

[spaz21387]

Can you change your picking style so that you arent resting your arm on the bass? I had something similar happen but not nearly as bad. I just had a pink rash like thing on my wrist from it rubbing against the body. That went away after a week or so. It was kinda like when you fall skateboarding and scrape something on the ground where it hurts lightly when even clothes touch it.

[anthowl]

it's realy intreguing to see that nobody here has ever seen this kinda thing before..

eep.

this thing is a bit like that cos it does sting when touched, and i could try not to rubb the body so much but yer..i don't rubb it too much as it is :S
this thing came up fairly quickly.

hoepfully when it heals it'll make the skin stronger and when i get my new bass to replace this one hte problem will stop.

any more advice would be appreciated. wanna know if anyone else has had this.

[VisualShock]

you got it easy!
i went to put my bass on in a blackout on stage, and threw the strap over my head, and managed to smack myself in the face with the body of it

on a more serious note:
try playing around with techniques, and angles.

[yahtzee1280]

Originally Posted by VisualShock

you got it easy!
i went to put my bass on in a blackout on stage, and threw the strap over my head, and managed to smack myself in the face with the body of it

^^^lol
yeah i went to put my bass back on its stand and i droped it and the strap nut landed right on my big toe in the center of the toenail i had to go to the docter and i had to have my toenail cut off so it could grow back and heal right..................

anyways yeah try skin lotion or something like that(it might make your bas really oily and nasty) or just use a wrist band idk just my 2 cents

[perogato02]

I have had the same. But only with one bass: my rickenbacker copy ... the continious friction of my forearm on the sharp edge of the body gave me something that looked and felt irritated.

But there was no blood in my case

[anthowl]

yer thats probably the same thing. lucky i'm moving to something smoother.