kidblast Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Not that this winter hasn't been miserable enough, the hands are taking a beating I've been battling split fingertips almost all winter. Sometimes, the areas that are split will just throb with pain. I've been using liquid bandages to seal and cover so I can play. my left hand ring finger is a mess, two splits, my right hand thumb is split right where the thumb hits the string when finger picking. my left pinky was in bad shape but it's finally healed after almost 2 months with a huge split.. I try to put neosporin on them and cover them with bandaids at night, they just split again during the day. ARG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I've had a few. Looks like a cut with a razerblade.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MississippiBlue Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Not that this winter hasn't been miserable enough, the hands are taking a beating I've been battling split fingertips almost all winter. Sometimes, the areas that are split will just throb with pain. I've been using liquid bandages to seal and cover so I can play. my left hand ring finger is a mess, two splits, my right hand thumb is split right where the thumb hits the string when finger picking. my left pinky was in bad shape but it's finally healed after almost 2 months with a huge split.. I try to put neosporin on them and cover them with bandaids at night, they just split again during the day. ARG! Kidblast, I feel your pain. This year I've been using Vaseline for men. It works very well. My finger tips have split but not as often and as deep as in the past. In other words, I can keep playing. My left hand tends to be worse than the right and since I play guitar right handed it can be a pain. A little tip for Ya. When it gets too painful to play guitar in your normal fashion due to the finger cuts. That is s GREAT time to practice your slide guitar playng. In fact, during the winter months my resophonic gets more playing time than my Les Paul or my Strats. Take Care Man, MississippiBlue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 That is s GREAT time to practice your slide guitar playng ha! Exactly!!!!!! that is precisely what I've been doing. I haven't played slide in a while, (at one time, I was pretty a efficient slide player. But like anything else you snooze you loose.. so it was good to pick that up again) the other alternative is play more piano.. (something I have been doing for about 12 years now) Guitar is way more fun tho.. I use superglue.a little extreme but puts a hard shell on it I think Liquid Bandage is actually medical super glue. it just has other things in it to help prevent infections. Nail glue (the kind used for finger nails in salons) works too. It definitely helps make it a bit more manageable. Looks like a cut with a razerblade.... yep! that's it alright,, oucheth! just another reason to hate on winter.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the dog Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Try this stuff.....I can attest it mends split finger tips...if you use a little daily it will prevent... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Bill Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Wow...split finger tips sounds horrible. I have fingernails that split, and that is not painful, but annoying. My wife's fingers would crack in winter, but that was from doing dishes several times a day. Weird... because we've always had a dishwasher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Try this stuff.....I can attest it mends split finger tips...if you use a little daily it will prevent... Yep. That's the stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 yea Bill.. it's a royal PITA.. Especially when you'd like nothing better to do then spend a some down time on a saturday playing guitar for a few hours. doesn't stop me, but it's not as much fun as it could be... the liquid bandage only helps so much I'll be looking for a can of that Bag Balm stuff....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeman Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Have you tried running a humidifier? It helps with my skin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 This is all very enlightening to me since I live in the giant humidifier known as Florida! I had no idea that winter could split one's finger tips. Sounds brutal. Though I guess summer is probably really nice up there while here it's, well, brutal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis G Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Yeah, those things suck. I grew up in upstate NY and went through this stuff a lot. Now, in SoCal, well, not so much. In any event, this was also discussed on another forum I frequent. Aquaphor was another suggestion, as was the Super Glue and humidifier. I'll keep the Bag Balm stuff in mind as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L8_4thesh0w Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 This stuff is great. It's been around forever, or at least since I was a kid, anyway. My dad was a welder and avid (all-weather) fisherman and used it all the time. Non-greasy, not very expensive and main ingredients are water and glycerin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveFord Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I've been using Nivea Lotion simply because my wife bought a bottle of it It seems to work well but my left thumb is a disaster at the moment. Hurry, Spring! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capmaster Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 It's the coincidence of winter and skin cleaners. I had to deal with that more than forty years. In early 2009, I had to give up any use of skin cleaners for several months for another reason - my then-wife had ripped up a suture two days after a surgery on my right hand. Accidentally I found out my skin was far better than ever. So I stayed off the use of any detergents on my skin since then. Water only for washing my hands and showering, salt and vinegar for bathing. If it was about my skin only, I would be able to play twenty-four hours a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10K-DB Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Not that this winter hasn't been miserable enough, the hands are taking a beating I've been battling split fingertips almost all winter. Sometimes, the areas that are split will just throb with pain. I've been using liquid bandages to seal and cover so I can play. my left hand ring finger is a mess, two splits, my right hand thumb is split right where the thumb hits the string when finger picking. my left pinky was in bad shape but it's finally healed after almost 2 months with a huge split.. I try to put neosporin on them and cover them with bandaids at night, they just split again during the day. ARG! I get those from driving the semi-trk at work,,what I do is: I use that product called "Carmex" its a lip balm product,,but if you put that on your cuts,,cover them w/band-aids,,let set over night,,or as long as you can,,it softens up the skin around the area,,and clears up in about 2 days,at least it has for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted March 2, 2015 Author Share Posted March 2, 2015 I found some stuff at CVS that seems to be a bit similar to the bag balm stuff, .. trying that for now. hey guys, thanks for chiming in.. and for yous guys in places that don't get the dry out like we do, it is definitely a PITA. But the pretty good news is, if you take care of it,, you can work around it, the real drag is they will heal up for a day or so, and then, split again. oh the humanity... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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