[Robert Firestone]

Originally Posted by Falstaff66

Oddly enough, my lack of long skinny fingers lead me to a narrow neck (normal for a steel string anyway). I had an old classical and couldn't begin to get my fingers around it. I considered a Seagull with the slightly wider neck. I think callouses may help...due to simple physics. I DO push down too hard, but also, the string pushes well into the meat of my finger, and displaces it to the pad of the finger, which gets wider, and contacts the next string. I'm hoping callouses will mitigate that effect. I'm sure stretching will help as well, and hand positioning could be a problem, I'm not sure. You're right, that's not something you guys could tell me.

Your overpressing to develop callouses will slow your technique down big time. That's like running in the mud- it takes longer to release tension the more that there is......