RE: Nail shape for different guitar techniques

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Ricardo

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RE: Nail shape for different guitar ... (in reply to Manitas de Lata)

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ORIGINAL: Manitas de Lata

After resting my right hand nails for some months , im back.
The nails were horrible , super fragile and thin , so i spent months to recover.... now they re strong than ever.
What happen? i guess they were getting weaker and weaker due to the use of varnish and of course with lack of vitamins ..
This started when i changed the varnish brand.. and therefore tried to fix with glue , and after that with paper. Well the fix its nice if you have an emergency , like a gig or so , but not really to use "everyday" , so i ****ed up worse my nails that were allready bad.

Now i just have to find the varnish that was good , and not aply as often , and continue to take daily vitamins
It sucks and required a lot of wait and patience...

Sorry about that. You could also try, oh I don’t know, maybe……CA glue?

Vitamins etc., always good for you, but playing rasgueado is like filing the nails from the top. If you glue something to a nail, eventually it comes off and it takes the entire top layers of cells with it, thinning the nails. Acrylic, fake plastic nail, ping pong balls, tissue paper, etc., doesn’t matter. The idea is the glue ALONE acts as an artificial extra cell layer that takes the beating, protecting the natural nail under it. If you treat the glue like food that will spoil, it lasts a long time. If it spoils, then it does not protect and flakes off similar to if you had glued something to the top of your nail, and while not protecting it is again peeling layers of good cells off. As long as you play and you use fresh glue, everything will be fine. If you want to remove it, for whatever reason which is not ever recommended, you must WAIT that it falls off gradually with the dead cells, little by little, NO SCRAPING. When it finally comes off the natural nails are there as if nothing ever happened perfectly fine as before you applied the stuff. The temptation is that after a coat of glue as done its job and you notice a little spot were dead cells have released a little, people want to scrape the rest of it off and apply a fresh coat. That is not good because the other areas are holding and working fine. You must simply fill the holes with more CA glue and continue as normal. There is no need to remove it ever, just keep doing touch ups as it falls off naturally. Any deliberate premature removal will thin the nails. Punto.

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Manitas de Lata

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RE: Nail shape for different guitar ... (in reply to Ricardo)

thanks Ricardo , yep you resumed it well , the nails werent 100% good but were nice to play with (still with the scrap..) , after i changed the brand/varnish that was the game changer for worse , that "new" varnish was ****... so i had to scrap more....and apply more varnish , you know the drill... , of course after that the nails were super thin and start to crack/split. Tried to fix the cracks and splits with that nail glue , but i think it wasnt great... felt really cheap....so it got worse.
Well sometimes thats the way that we learn...the hard way

So , what did i learnt , no scrap , i think thats the biggest mistake , when the varnish is getting older etc and theres more exposure of the nail i will not do rasgeo for that time for example.. i will wait to come off and after that put some more varnish.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 26 2024 16:54:05

Manitas de Lata

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RE: Nail shape for different guitar ... (in reply to Manitas de Lata)

so , this glue is crap...doesnt glue at all the cracks , after two days starts to come off

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 26 2024 17:50:22

AndresK

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From: Patras, Greece

RE: Nail shape for different guitar ... (in reply to Manitas de Lata)

Here he says he had a nail issue and used a mavala cream to restore a problem that he got from another product ( I do not remember exactly because I have seen this quite some time ago)

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 26 2024 20:25:29

Ricardo

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RE: Nail shape for different guitar ... (in reply to Manitas de Lata)

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ORIGINAL: Manitas de Lata

so , this glue is crap...doesnt glue at all the cracks , after two days starts to come off

Discard and buy a new bottle. After you open it, keep it sealed in a plastic zip lock bag or other air tight container. Don’t refrigerate or leave out in the hot car.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 27 2024 15:40:25

Stu

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RE: Nail shape for different guitar ... (in reply to Manitas de Lata)

So! Anyone wanna talk about the thumb nail shape?!!

we never did that. Here!

Trying to give my alzapua the same boost that this thread have my picado.....

Saw chicuelo thumb nail recently and he had some pretty straight angles going on. I've tried to reshape mine like that to get a better alzapua and less snagging on abanico....I think it's working.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 24 2024 23:07:36

Manitas de Lata

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RE: Nail shape for different guitar ... (in reply to Stu)

man im just happy that they re again in ok condition.. , dont care for anything more lol

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 24 2024 23:49:58

Ricardo

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RE: Nail shape for different guitar ... (in reply to Stu)

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So! Anyone wanna talk about the thumb nail shape?!!

No!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 25 2024 17:02:40

Filip

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RE: Nail shape for different guitar ... (in reply to Stu)

Cool Stu.

My thumb shape is rounded. Many years ago I've noticed I think Vicente having straight angles and I've tried that but it did not work for me. Maybe I can try it again

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 26 2024 19:00:44

Stu

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RE: Nail shape for different guitar ... (in reply to Ricardo)

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No!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 26 2024 23:44:31

silddx

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RE: Nail shape for different guitar ... (in reply to Filip)

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My thumb shape is rounded. Many years ago I've noticed I think Vicente having straight angles and I've tried that but it did not work for me. Maybe I can try it again

My thumb nail is serrated from grating garlic on a microplane. But I have to do it because Juan Martin told me to rub garlic into my nails to keep em strong.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 27 2024 20:22:21