[geeks] Guitar callouses

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, John Duksta wrote:
> And my latest hobby (expanding my horizons here) is learning
> how to play guitar. It's been a month now and I've almost got
> 2 songs down and the fingertip callouses are coming along nicely.

You know, I've been playing guitar for 10 years now, and I've never had
any signs of callouses.  Granted, the past 3 or 4 yours I've played very
little, but before that I played quite a lot.  Maybe it is the fact that I
play electric with really lite strings, but my first year I played an old
classical guitar with really thick strings.  I don't know. 

My guitar gear is all pretty old (and most of it not in the good way) and
has been aging poorly.  But I don't get around to playing enough to
justify buying much new gear.  The last new thing I bought was a
replacement wah-wah peddle a year or so ago.  Broken already.  I don't
abuse wah-wah peddles, but I've never had one that lasted.  I'm thinking
that for my next one I should try buying one of the optical pot Moreleys.
Maybe they would last.


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Joshua Boyd