Sore fingertips from so much playing!

[Sascha Franck]

A dab of super glue on the sore fingertip can help.

Dude, this should ONLY EVER be a last minute emergency thing. Because while it'll help you temporarily, things will possibly get worse when the superglue comes off.

 

[Dave Lewis]

Dude, this should ONLY EVER be a last minute emergency thing. Because while it'll help you temporarily, things will possibly get worse when the superglue comes off.

Actually super glue works really well on human skin and is used in lots of medical applications.
I’ve used it on sore fingers and on cuts on my fret fingers to help heal them faster .
A ex consultant guitarist friend gave me the tip years ago.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Super glue does work well for cuts or rips in the skin. I've used it for 30+ years. I don't normally get sore fingers tips anymore unless it would be from playing an acoustic with old strings or something. But occasionally I'll cut or rip the skin from woodworking so glue comes in handy and speeds up the healing time while allowing me to play the guitar within reason -- depending on where the cut is.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Hm, ok. I actually didn't know that. I only remember having some kinda larger amount of superglue on two of my fingertips once and it's been pretty nasty to remove it and didn't feel well after. Possibly should've just waited until it wore off.

 

[Holden Afart]

I had to super glue my sack after a shaving incident once.

 

[bucephalus]

Gotta pay the toll, if ya wanna rock-n-roll.

Gotta pay the troll toll if you wanna get into the boys hole

 

[Chocol8]

Super glue works for cuts but won’t help build calluses which is what you want to do so it doesn’t hurt when you play next week.

The key after taking an extended break from playing (which you should never do but is inevitable sometimes) is to start back up slowly enough so you don’t get blisters. A little pain is good, but a blister takes longer to heal and delays callus forming.

 

[PLX]

Gotta pay the troll toll if you wanna get into the boys hole

 

[maguchi]

What do you do for the pain?

White palace Heroin! Or if you're low on funds black tar heroin will do in a pinch. JK

Keep on keeping on. The only time my fingertips get sore is if I stop playing for a couple weeks or more when I go on holiday. After a couple weeks of starting to play every day again, or even 5-6 times a week, the pain's gone and won't return until next time I stop and start playing again. It's just the nature of the instrument.

 

[DrewJD82]

Fun fact- superglue was originally invented when some researchers were trying to make clear plastic gun sights for the armed services, the dude who invented it dismissed it until nearly a decade later when he was working for another company working on heat-resistant adhesives for planes. It was used in the Vietnam war to patch up soldiers on the battlefield and later it was approved for medical use where it's been used in surgeries for reattaching veins or stopping bleeding in organs.

I only know this because a few weeks ago my dad said something about it being developed for wounded soldiers and was later adopted as an adhesive for general use. Dad tends to make some shit up sometimes so I looked it up and he was more right than he was wrong, as it was used for soldiers before it was sold in stores to everyone, it was just developed for a different reason.

I used to keep a tube of New Skin in my guitar cases, if it was chemically different than regular superglue, it definitely didn't smell like it!

 

[bucephalus]

 

[Mikael Dez]

What do you do for the pain?

KEEP. PLAYING.

 

[Mikael Dez]

I play almost every day, for at least a few hours. I used to have to file parts of my callouses off, because they'd start to build up too far past the tip of my finger, on the bottom, and it would hinder my fretting accuracy.

But they've gotten to the point where I don't have to even think about them. With regular playing, I would think yours would also.


And when you say 'hurt', I assume you're talking about the skin tips, and not some type of muscular/tendon pain, cuz that's a pain you should not be having. My palm gets a bit sore when I first start, but once the blood gets flowing and my hands warm up, that goes away.

I'm always filing down my fuckin callouses lol they start getting wild and snagging on shit.

 

[Mikael Dez]

Fun fact- superglue was originally invented when some researchers were trying to make clear plastic gun sights for the armed services, the dude who invented it dismissed it until nearly a decade later when he was working for another company working on heat-resistant adhesives for planes. It was used in the Vietnam war to patch up soldiers on the battlefield and later it was approved for medical use where it's been used in surgeries for reattaching veins or stopping bleeding in organs.

I only know this because a few weeks ago my dad said something about it being developed for wounded soldiers and was later adopted as an adhesive for general use. Dad tends to make some shit up sometimes so I looked it up and he was more right than he was wrong, as it was used for soldiers before it was sold in stores to everyone, it was just developed for a different reason.

I used to keep a tube of New Skin in my guitar cases, if it was chemically different than regular superglue, it definitely didn't smell like it!

I use superglue for most of the cuts I get on my hands - can't be bothered with bandaids/washing hands and more bandaids lol