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Old April 24th, 2008
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Originally Posted by Noodler View Post
I wonder what sort of work means you can't have your fingernails grow just beyond the pulp? They don't have to be very long, just 2 or 3 mm past the tip of the finger looking from the palm. I wouldn't trade my fingernails for anything, and I keep them short for work too. It's just a couple of mm longer than you'd normally have them anyway. It's nothing.
One of the challenges I have with the longer nails is that I have rounded fingertips, so that whenever I grow them out just a bit past the tip of the finger they look a lot longer than they really are. When I'm playing enough, however, I tend to build up calluses on my picking fingers that help get a nice clear tone.


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