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zendalex -> RE: Nails (Feb. 10 2026 21:39:53)
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Ok thanks Ricardo. That thread is huge though, will try to go over it.
I went ahead and glued some plastic nails to try this shape.
What can I say, I get some clinging sound from those sides, also they catch on the string for me.
I rounded the shapes a bit but still have a feeling the fingers catch once in a while.
In all reality its been my biggest issue lately - no matter what shape I cant get through the string occasionally. Nail gets caught :(
I mostly mean picados of course, other techniques seem to work fine for me.
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ORIGINAL: Ricardo
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Thanks for the pic. The red outlining lines (which actually do not match the contour of your nail) - what do they mean? Another possibility to shape?
I think the nail shape must very much depend on the angle of the attack. Do I understand correctly that you essentially pluck totally perpendicular to the string?
I know for example, that Grisha rotates his wrist slightly towards the rosette. I think in the latter case the shape you have would not work.
It is in the longer thread, so quite nuanced. Basically we are looking at 2D pics of a 3D phenomenon. They are the conceptual geometry I wanted the guy to try which was a bit different than what he was doing in the pic. He had filed flat, but his nails were not quite optimal for how you want to plant the nail on the string. When you make a fist, or when I do, the middle comes straight down, the index curls inward and the ring as well but opposite to the index. The idea I realized after some experiments long ago, is that there needs to be a straight edge that slices through he 3D nail shape. This prevents resistance and allows the nail to "glide" through the string. But the contact points are essential to understand. Basically when you plant the finger the string needs to touch the nail at two points and as you pluck, those two points slide across the nail until they meet somewhere and exit. You don't want them traveling along a round arc, but rather a straight line.
So the idea with the red lines is the string will seat on the line just above those corners in two spots. Some folks with very flat nails out of the nailbed can't get that to happen because the string sits far behind those corners. I suggested the glue to slightly curve the whole nail in the nail bed (this works for most of us), creating a better geometry in 3d and the length might be shortened a bit so the string won't get behind those edges. It is a tricky subject until you experiment with just filing side to side rather than in a curve around the nail, mimicking the half moon of the nail bed.
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