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SOAKING YOUR FINGERS IN VINEGAR
- Thread starter JordanDelap
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CrashClint
I Play Bass therefore I Am
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.
The ladies LOVE it.It will not make them tougher but they will start to smile like pickled pigs feet.
True story.
- Mar 30, 2007
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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?
though i did notice when i was working with metal at a belt sander for a long time my callouses where beefy. heat tempering?
I thought you were supposed to work until you got blisters and then pee on them.
um......
My dad is a jerk.
um......
My dad is a jerk.
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!
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!
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.
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.
You could do what bruce lee did and thrust your hands into buckets of harsh rocks and gravel 500 times every other day.
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.
My fingers really really hurt at the time though so it was worth it.
