Originally Posted by: gipson71I can live with it either way but I was curious about something. I've been playing a lot over the past 2 months and the fingertips on my fret hand are pretty much just oddly hard calluses. I know this is a phenomenon from the strings wearing them out, but the weird part is that I have almost no feeling in these fingertips. For example, if I pet my dog with my fingertips I almost can't even feel it. Does this ever go away or is this just a weird side effect from overuse? I have heard of the callus part but never the lack of feeling thing.

It's totally normal man/
you start by hurting like hell... then you develop calluses and skin peeling...
along with a hardness.

Over time you keep peeling the damaged skin off your fingers.

Eventually, you develop a very hard second skin that doesn't have much feeling. Even then, when you overdo it, it gets shredded and you kinda peel that way again. but the skin grows back stronger than ever.


It's totally normal and actaully you should be aiming to strenghthen your fingers asap. (without doing it to the point of carpal tunnel syndrom or anything else that's serious.)