I Had To File Some Meat Off My Calluses

[TSJMajesty]

Calluses. That's a weird-sounding word.

I was having trouble sticking my H/O-P/O's on the low E, so I actually had to take some meat off, and get back to the fleshy part to give me some grip.

Just thought I'd share that.

(Callus: Thickened layers of skin, often on the hands or feet, where friction repeatedly occurs. Calluses can have causes that aren't due to underlying disease, such as playing one's guitar for more than a few minutes just noodling and comparing cool tones.)

 

[Achilles]

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. (been there, done that)

 

[la szum]

 

[Piing]

Calluses in Spanish (callos) also has another meaning that is actually meat. A recipe made with ox tripe stew with veggies and sausages.

Never tried, never will, because when I was a kid I thought it was made from actual calluses from the feet.

Make Callos Madrilenos, a Traditional Madrid-Style Tripe Recipe

Beef tripe, callos in Spanish, is a traditional, hearty dish in Madrid that has been served in taverns and family dining tables for centuries.

www.thespruceeats.com

 

[TSJMajesty]

Hahaha Some woman got snippy with me once in the store..., "And what are you even doing in the ladies cosmetics section anyway?"

Well if you must know, I'm a guitarist and I'm looking for the emory boards. Bitch.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

A while back, I didn't realize the hole I wore into the big toe space of the insole of my shoe, and had some crazy callus buildup on my big toe to the point where I couldn't walk barefoot. I could slice it off with a blade but part of it also grew upward into the toe so a few rounds of salicylic acid helped to draw it out. I've taken a drill with a grinder bit to my toe more than twice.

People sure love to glorify rock-hard calluses but they're painful. I used to work in a dry dusty container yard and like an idiot, never wore gloves. My hands were like leather after a few years of treating them like crap and the skin would split and it would suck.

 

[unix-guy]

A while back, I didn't realize the hole I wore into the big toe space of the insole of my shoe, and had some crazy callus buildup on my big toe to the point where I couldn't walk barefoot. I could slice it off with a blade but part of it also grew upward into the toe so a few rounds of salicylic acid helped to draw it out. I've taken a drill with a grinder bit to my toe more than twice.

People sure love to glorify rock-hard calluses but they're painful. I used to work in a dry dusty container yard and like an idiot, never wore gloves. My hands were like leather after a few years of treating them like crap and the skin would split and it would suck.

Get yourself one of these:

https://a.co/d/7PGhDrZ

I use one like this on the outside edge of both my feet...

 

[woody]

There was a time when i played double bass in a big band.
One day while cooking I found something smelled funny. I looked and I had burned my plucking finger without feeling it, smelling it first.

 

[murphy brown]

I think that's better compared to cutting it directly.

 

[DrewJD82]

A while back, I didn't realize the hole I wore into the big toe space of the insole of my shoe, and had some crazy callus buildup on my big toe to the point where I couldn't walk barefoot. I could slice it off with a blade but part of it also grew upward into the toe so a few rounds of salicylic acid helped to draw it out. I've taken a drill with a grinder bit to my toe more than twice.

People sure love to glorify rock-hard calluses but they're painful. I used to work in a dry dusty container yard and like an idiot, never wore gloves. My hands were like leather after a few years of treating them like crap and the skin would split and it would suck.

Yep! Working on my feet since I was 14, I’ve got some pretty interesting calluses on my feet. The sides of my big toes I’m quite certain can be used for bulletproofing material, but I have one particularly odd one above my heel, in my arch that you can straight up stab with a knife until the knife sticks in and I won’t feel it.

My hands, despite working with them for years, are baby soft. Even my fingertips on my fretting hand, the only time you can tell I play guitar is when I take a week or two off then play like crazy and the calluses get all chewed up. Outside of that they look and feel like regular finger tips that have never touched a guitar.

 

[JiveTurkey]

I was having trouble nailing a 9-note-per-string run the other day so I had to go and buy a new amp.

 

[PLX]

I was having trouble nailing a 9-note-per-string run the other day so I had to go and buy a new amp.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

My hands, despite working with them for years, are baby soft. Even my fingertips on my fretting hand, the only time you can tell I play guitar is when I take a week or two off then play like crazy and the calluses get all chewed up. Outside of that they look and feel like regular finger tips that have never touched a guitar.

I don't really have calluses on my fretting hand but I've had someone who was a former coach and Olympic champion tell me that he believes that I've developed extra layer of muscle under my left-hand fingertips from playing guitar.

 

[la szum]

The longest I didn't play guitar was while in the Military. It was 4 months. Man, when
I picked up a guitar again it hurt instantly! Was like starting over.

Calluses are my friend.