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Post subject: Callouses analysis?
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:22 am
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For the first 5 months of playing my callouses got really tough, visible, and raspy. Now I play more than ever and the callouses are much softer and are hard to even see. Is that normal?

One thing that changed was that I switched to using a different brand of strings.


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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:34 am
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I wouldn't worry too much about how they look, as long as you still feel you have callouses. Your body may just be getting used to playing now and may not need to make as heavy as a callous, or when you changed string brands, did you perhaps go to a lighter gauge as well? That could make a difference too...but as long as there's not a major difference when you play, don't worry about it too much. My callouses sometimes get damaged, then a layer of skin comes off, so I guess the callous isn't as thick, but it doesn't feel much different...

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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:56 am
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I know if you play more accoustic guitars than electric guitars the callouses are harder. Has this possibly been a switch in your playing habits as well? Just a thought

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They come and go in visibility and toughness. Never analysed why, tho.


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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:06 am
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When I play my accoustic guitar I get heavy callouses. If I play electrics, they're hardly noticeable.

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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:46 am
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I've been playing for like 25 yrs. At first, my fingers had hard callouses, way back when. I play everyday, and play hard, and to me, I hardly have noticeable callouses. I mean, they're not baby soft the pinky of my pick hand, but certainly not very tough either.

I recently took a month from guitar to focus only hard core on bass for a month tour. I noticed my two right picking fingers got REAL tough, to the point where it bugs my acoustic finger playing now, but I'm getting used to it. I plan on playing bass more than I used to now, and am sure those initial tough callouses will lighten up too.


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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:40 pm
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Never really thought about it, but that's happened to me too. I guess it just happens as you get used to playing more...

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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:44 pm
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I play a lot and I don't even have calluses. Except on one of my fingers, my "power-chord finger," in which there is a callus on the side of it (talkin' the finger next to the pinky).

I even take my blood sugar on my other fretting fingers and through the countless time's I've poked them, I still don't have a callus on them. I guess I just can't grow a callus.

One of those crazy things in life, right? :roll:


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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:25 pm
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As long as they don't come off, the tone, feel, and the lack of pain (- blisters) should be OK.


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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:18 pm
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My fingers look just like they did before I started, no difference. I don't know why, but the only difference is they don't hurt anymore.

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