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Filip -> RE: Nail shape for different guitar techniques (Dec. 2 2023 23:14:34)
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In your case, the nails grow very flat and wavy, so you are going at it at 90 degree to keep em short by necessity. Honestly, if you try the glue as I described your nails will form the perfect arc and you will see the huge difference for the better. But you are not using glue and are obviously adverse to it, which means perhaps, you are not playing for dancers regularly? I promise if you just try it you will see, and if you simply don’t like it you can go back to this if it works for you.
I do not play for dancers, that is correct observation. In fact I never did, except only once with a group of guitar players from a local peña.
I am more than eager to try the glue and do some experiments. Regarding that, is CA glue the same as supe glue? Could you please help me identify the correct one, I am afraid not to mess things up, so is something like this or maybe this the thing I need ?
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This is great!
new cure for kids who bite thier nails!!
btw thanks for taking time to share your nail pics
Hehe, yes. It was so long ago that I don't think about it at all or remember it anymore, but it was actually very big deal for me.
And you're welcome, I hope it helped.
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you also have "wavy " on the surface of the nail , mine are worst .
in my research those sintoms are lack of something , like some minerals and or vitamins , in some cases i think auto imune disease (my case if related)
Sorry to hear that. I never payed attention to ir, to me it was kind of normal and I thought it's because of years of biting the nails and destroying the cuticles and flesh around it.
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He has rounded them where as on my m and a finger for example, it is a sharp angle on thumb side. Because the string never gets behind there, it sits on the line in planted position. I suspect that since he doesn’ t use glue, and his nails have very little 3d arc compared to mine but are more flat, that he is allowing the string to sit back behind those sides and is therefore rounding them off. If he used glue he would see that is not necessary.
I think this is correct. I round the edges a bit because otherwise the string would often get stuck between flesh and the nail when I play (especially the middle finger and that side towards the thumb). But I should experiment with this again. The other reason is that, since my nails are mostly flat, without rounding the edges they become very very sharp and as a consequence I have an uncomfortable feeling in the wrist because I can feel the edges all the time rubbing against other fingers. I also accidentally scratch and destroy things around me (once it happened with my fine leather dress shoes, they still have a scratch unfortunately).
So I will do some experiments, with filing and with the glue, and post back.
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anyone with this issue ? people that just stares to your nails?
is f*** anoying
Sometimes happens, but I don't care.
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