I don't think there's any way to cheat your way out of having to go through the whole build-up-callus-process
I never really had such a problem with it cause I wasn't playing that much in the beginning, so my fingers got time to adapts sort to speak, but now I feel them burn like hell after playing! whenever I put them on something hot it feels as if I got 3rd degree burns on them, guess I still need to build up some callus :rolleyes:
about the Rock Tips, it said it would help you with callus, not that it would make you play just as good :p nah, I think you'll be fine in a couple of weeks
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