Hi,

My name is Dean and I'm 44.

I've never ever played an instrument despite loving music all my life.

So for my 44th birthday my wife got me a basic acoustic setup.

Lovely East Coast G1 guitar made here in the UK with an stand, case, books the lot.

A week later I realised I needed more than books and youtube so signed up :)

So it's going well (ish). I'm playing 15-45 minutes a day on average. Major chords, spider legs practice, strumming patterns and basically playing about and just enjoying my guitar.

Now we are on the third week and I've gone through the fingertip pain barrier and out the other side. However the feeling in my tips has gone and the calluses are not going.

Will it always be like this or will I get feeling back and just a tougher outer layer of skin?

Pic is of my fingertips right now. tough skin with little feeling at the tips and no pain.

It's actualy making it harder to practice spider legs warmup as I cant quite feel when Im hitting the string square on.

Apologies for the pic if you havent had dinner yet!