rojarosguitar -> Artificial Nails (Nov. 26 2014 12:43:08)
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I do use artificial nails. Depending on the state of affairs I have either i, m and a equipped with acrylic nails glued on with glue dots, sometimes, if it hits my thumb, also the thumb. It's more difficult to get good material for the thumb. I ordered one specifically for guitarists, but this one breaks easily. The others I got in a set from Amazon.de (they are what was called ABS quality) and they are absolutely superb, in durability and sound. For the first time in my life I can play with the (almost) sound I envision. Well, I would prefer the sound of natural nails, it's more sparkling, but with my frail nails I don't get anything, so I'm glad having a workable solution... I should add that the best glue dots are contrary to what I believed not the super thin ones. At the moment I use some that even have a kind of a foam-like carrier material and are actually quite thick. When they came I didn't believe I could even use them,but I tried and they advanced to my favored ones because they stick well to my nails and almost too well to the artificial ones. The little gap that results from their thickness is something I had to adjust to, but now I enjoy to be able to play 2-4 days without having to redo them. And I absolutely favor glue dots over super glue. Why? Because with the super glue, when an artificial nail went off, it took a thin layer of my own nail with it, and the result was that my nails became paper thin within short period of time. As long as they stay they feel better when fixated wit super glue, but the overall result was disastrous. I'm still recovering my nails from this experiment... The downside of the thing is that it looks a bit strange. I had to explain to my students in the school that my nails are not a sign of any perverted sexual orientation but of my being a guitar player. That cooled their interest out totally ...:D And that's how it looks ... today (no thumb this time),. The white color comes mainly from the glue dots; the nails by themselves are whitish bunt quite as strongly.
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