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Jon Boyes
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ORIGINAL: Shroomy726
But even then, when I use my thumb, even a little bit, my nail wears. It becomes slanted! It is like the strings eat away my nail, not letting me play.
Lionel, I know you the thread is about the Sally Hansen stuff, but I just wanted to make a suggestion, that you look at HOW you play with your thumb.
Do you contact with just nail? If you do and the angle of attack is such that the string has no where to go but into your nail, I think you will wear it away whatever you coat it with. As already mentioned, a wound string can act just like a thin file.
These things are always difficult to describe rather than demonstrate, but to start with you want your wrist slung low with your thumb pointing upwards.
I contact with flesh first immediately followed by nail (or sometimes flesh and nail) but the way my nail is filed (slight inward slant on the string side, filed from the inside edge out) means the string just rides along the inside edge, over the top edge and off, without the string digging into the nail.
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Date Apr. 25 2006 15:06:50
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John O.
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From: Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany
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I had the same experience Jon is talking about. I eventually got to playing "flesh tone" using the thumb and have a lot of calus supporting the nail. Since then I don't have the problem you write about - before I did though.
It does suck to have week long breaks in your practise until you get it right though, so if you want to take a chance, try this:
Go to a nail studio, find the hottest chick there (that part's important  ) Have her give you gel tips with about three times the thickness of what she gives her usual customers. This shouldn't bother her, the stuff is really cheap, it's the work they charge you for.
If she's never done a guitarist's nails before, it could take her a few tries to get it right, but if it's worth $25 a month to you to never worry about a broken or worn nail ever again - go for it. It made my playing so much better. Not all people like the thick nails though, and if you also play classical it'll majorly ruin your tone.
If you do decide to do it though, tell her she doesn't have to put the final shiny coat on, otherwise every second person you meet will ask if you wear nail polish
John
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Date Apr. 25 2006 15:18:52
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