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| Author | Topic: Calluses, nails, and guitar |
| bk 10-04-2002 07:41 PM | Hi, As a guitar player (acoustic, mostly steel stringed), I have calluses on the tips of all my fingers on my left hand. On my right hand, I have longer fingernails that I use to pluck and strum the strings. Do either of these pose a problem? (The potential problem with the fingernails may not be apparant, but they can get going to quite a velocity and with repitition... steel vs. fingernail...) So far I haven't noticed any problems, only occasionally when I catch my nail under a string. Thanks! |
| Wai 10-05-2002 02:20 PM | quote:I cannot possibly see how, or to what... ![[Confused]](../confused.gif) The callus is just a protective layer. quote:Okay, then you just need to make sure to file / polish your nails before playing |
| bk 10-05-2002 05:43 PM | quote:Sorry, I should have been more specific. I was not sure of the effects of a callus. I was wondering if it perhaps accelerated the aging of that skin, leading to issues later. As for the nails, it was mainly that perhaps the impacts would wear down the nail, or that they would damage some other part of the finger. Thanks for answering, anyway. ;-) |
| Wai 10-06-2002 02:18 PM | Excessive wearing out of cells accelerates their aging, indeed. But the human body is build to be able to cope with a simple increased loading on specific parts of the body; the muscles get stronger through more intense exercise, your bones get thicker by increasing the loading upon them, and your skin gets locally tougher if you expose it to more pressure. If that increased loading is not excessive, it is not a problem, especially because it involves parts of your body that are build to be able to react upon increased loading (hands, muscles, bones), but the skin on your face is not build to be able to cope with aggressive chemicals, for example. |