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04-10-2008, 06:39 AM
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is it true that if you soak your fingers in vinegar they get tougher?
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04-10-2008, 06:44 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | | Stuff like that will just dry them out and cause the skin to crack. If you are having soreness in your fingers, try some Fret/Finger Ease otherwise keep playing and taking frequent breaks, you do now want raw skin or blister. Your fingers will eventually toughen up. |
04-10-2008, 06:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Jersey Channel Island | | | nah my fingers are sound, i was just wondering you see.
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04-10-2008, 01:47 PM
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04-10-2008, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Laklandlover  It will not make them tougher but they will start to smile like pickled pigs feet. | The ladies LOVE it.
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04-10-2008, 01:55 PM
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04-10-2008, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by JordanDelap is it true that if you soak your fingers in vinegar they get tougher? | Seriously, soaking your fingers in surgical spirit will toughen them up. |
04-10-2008, 02:07 PM
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04-10-2008, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Phalex I like to soak my fingers in cider. | Beat me to it! 
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04-10-2008, 06:11 PM
| | | | no short cuts, earn those callouses boy.
though i did notice when i was working with metal at a belt sander for a long time my callouses where beefy. heat tempering? |
04-10-2008, 06:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: I'm a dyno man, N.of Detoilet | | | Salt brine. Makes yer hands harden up like rocks. When I was a kid I was introduced to a fighter. Shaking his hand felt like a piece of granite. He said "salt brine hardens the hand". I'll never forget that meeting.
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04-10-2008, 08:24 PM
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um......
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04-11-2008, 05:48 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | If you're seriously looking to toughen your hands up, try surgical spirit. It's what mountain bikers use to toughen their hands and keep their calluses thick.
At the same time though, you don't really need to do that though, all you do is play bass. Just keep playing and your hands will toughen up in time! |
04-11-2008, 06:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Central Ohio! | | | Blisters are weird. Can't remember the last time I got one, either... but I never popped mine. Just waited for them to dry up & eventually the top layer peels off. |
04-11-2008, 06:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Filthydelphia, USA | | | Take Biotin supplements -- good for the skin, nails,and hair. |
04-11-2008, 06:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Ilkley ,W. Yorks, England | | | When I was practising with my band for one of our acoustic gigs I ended up coating my fingers in olive oil cos I couldn't stand the pain from playing 110 roundwounds, that'll teach me to leave it lying in it's case untouched for so long. |
04-11-2008, 06:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cornwall, UK. | | | You could do what bruce lee did and thrust your hands into buckets of harsh rocks and gravel 500 times every other day.
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04-11-2008, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by SwamiRob When I was practising with my band for one of our acoustic gigs I ended up coating my fingers in olive oil cos I couldn't stand the pain from playing 110 roundwounds, that'll teach me to leave it lying in it's case untouched for so long. | Didn't that like kill your strings? 
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04-11-2008, 07:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tampa, FL | | I soak mine in the blood of my victims. Works pretty good. 
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04-11-2008, 07:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Ilkley ,W. Yorks, England | | They still have a fair bit of life to them and it was a good 3-4 months ago, I find it alot harder to tell with acoustics cos they fact it's acoustic seems to give alot of life to the sound though. Maybe I stuck a little fast fret on and it saved them  My fingers really really hurt at the time though so it was worth it. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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