I know this is an old topic but I got to ask. Do you slide between notes a lot? I tend to lose little patches of skin here and there from regular playing. Then I wrote a song that is nothing but sliding notes from one fret to another for like 3 minutes or so. Playing that one song just destroys my callouses because the round wound strings are acting like a rough file on my fingertips. If you do a lot of sliding up and down the strings you are going to lose some skin for sure. Hammer ons and pull offs for instance hardly do any damage at all. I used to be able to do those all day long without any damage. Oiling the strings just accelerates your skin damage in regards to sliding around a lot. I learned that the hard way. To be fair I used to drag my fingertips on everything everywhere I went when first started playing. Rough concrete, office style carpet, brick walls and whatever I could use to just rough them up while I was out and about and going through my day. I recommend at a minimum just taking more frequent breaks while practicing.

It’s not right - but I understand

Do you even tonewood, bro?

true. involved parties can probably stand to fret less about all of this

I mean, we're not talking about this guy being an organized crime boss. This guy isn't a capo which puts enormous pressure on anything touched.

the attempt fell flat

You can say that, but it sounds like he tried to pull some strings.

Felonious, even.

Huh. TIL!

https://reverb.com/item/93712212-squier-classic-vibe-50-s-grand-reward-telecaster

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Why not just get a cheap one and play it better though?

I assume he wouldn't want to get in treble again.

I'd imagine it's because nobody is ever going to employ him in a position where he gets the opportunity to do it again

Likely was searching for the Grand Reward Squier CV Strat.

Worst case of GAS I've ever seen

The Judge did indicate that he didn’t believe Lum was likely to commit another crime,

Why does the judge think the defendant changed his tune?-

Because Fender hasn’t been about making music in a loooong time.

That... looks an awful lot like the Donner NHL- or HLX-500 body except for the electronics panel. https://ca.donnermusic.com/cdn/shop/files/7_b9fe6e58-e38b-4173-9227-937be9c16d29.jpg?v=1762832020&width=400 Right down to the wood, which is okoume (I have one.)

I'm not saying it's a Donner, obviously, I'm saying it looks like an existing style being produced from okoume, so maybe there were production reasons for the shape.

Comes with a hard case...

Sure it's limited edition, and Castle Rat are great, and Dunable gets a lot of love from the 'Tubers I watch ... but I don't know about $3600 for a non-vintage single pickup guitar.

Not for me, and practicing atleast that much too. My callus mostly just builds up and I have to cut them off. I do have a ton of hang nails and if I start pulling or biting them off instead of clipping I'll get a sore that will make the top layer of my callus peel. Sometimes the callus get so thick that my ring finger nail gets long and my bends with that finger start being crappy. Ill get bummed about my playing sounds like crap and I will realize eventually I just gotta trim my nail back. Sometimes I shave it off just to make my fingers sore again to help me practice a lighter freting technique.

Hah!

got a good groove goin there! I love Now You Shred.

That shouldn't have an impact on the calluses