Its not the classiest option, but I've had winter gigs before where I forgot my gloves and had to resort to the "putting my hands in my pants" option. Pros: you have an excuse to walk around before a gig with your hands in your pants. Cons: anyone present at sound check is highly unlikely to shake your hand for the rest of the night, no matter how clear you make it that your hands have since been washed.
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Cold weather fingers
- Thread starter blackshift
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I used a similar product while working in a shipyard, called Fend. It was a barrier cream to help keep adhesives from sticking to your skin, which it really didn't do well. It will do nothing for keeping your hands warm, based on the fact that "Fend" did nothing to protect my hands from warm/hot pipes. Luckily not damaging temperature hot pipes, just uncomfortably hot. Anything that will keep your hands warm in the cold will also provide some protection from heat.
I did Christmas carols last year with an acoustic guitar. I had every necessary fingertip cut off of a pair of gloves to wear. I made it, but my hands were frozen. Also had an interesting thing happen, the strings got incredibly stiff. There was no sustain at all, just blang as I strummed.
I found a site, by accident, that has a type of fingerless gloves that might be useful in this situation. They are designed to help with cold weather playing. I haven't tried them, so can't say if they work or not.
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Well yeah, a set of fingerless gloves would be the obvious solution. I'm wondering what it is about these that would make them different from cutting the fingertips off a $1.50 pair of gloves from the corner drug store?
No difference. That's exactly what I did. They work great! Cheap and effective.
the ones with the half fingers and the padded back. If you can keep the back of your hands warm, your fingers won't stiffen up as much.
back in high school we had these real cold mornings when i had to play double bass (ouch). i had a great pair of knit gloves that were fingerless, but that had this mitten flap you could flip over your fingers. could be too cumbersome depending on what you're playing though...
