Les Paul's Dry Left Hand

[Cygnus X1]

You people are killing me.
Aren't callouses visible pale hard spots on the fingertips?
I am going to take a picture, gotta find batteries, and upload it...
I have no such thing. I only experience some fingertip skin peeling
if I haven't played for a very long time, like several months.

I'll get back to you. I can't be the only one that doesn't have a problem.

[SEEGERMANY]

I read an interview with Greg Allman a few years back, and he told the reporter that Duane would never, EVER wash his hands because he feared that his callouses would get soft.

Let's hope he didn't scrimp on toilet paper.

[J_A / 540s]

I never gave it too much thought other than I do not play for awhile after my fingers have been wet. Playing while they are wet & the callous's are soft will rip them (for me) but once completely dried I've never had an issue.

[j2379]

I've always thought that getting your hands wet in a lady's special hole then playing the darn guitar and after the gig letting all the kids smell your strings and because of that getting all the street cred is a good thing

yeah but then u need to watch out for the cat always clawing at your guitar cases.

[Robert Burns]

As a side note on those finger Cots".... my wife brought some home once..
i laughed when i saw them...took a couple to work the next day..and
when the resident welder who always bragged about how he "could'nt come
to work and lay pipe, when he had laid pipe all night".... bragging started... i whipped out these "Cots"...and said in front of everyone..
"your wife told me, why does he bother with condoms, when he's this
small" ? A good laugh by all, if you can set it up right?

[nhspike]

LOL!
Nice.

[GodOfRhythm]

I have the same thing.

My callouses are totally destroyed when I get out of the shower. I have these 'rings' on my fingertips, of where the middle part of the skin just broke off and was washed down the tube.

[Jack The Riffer]

My Callouses never go away, here's a pic of them: