Am I an alien? - What's wrong with me?

[jfb]

When I play guitar. This happens. Regardless of fretboard lumber and string brand.

What's wrong with me?

Acidic sweat causing string corrosion is the only answer I have come across that makes any amount of sense. And even this doesn't really seem like the case unless I should be in X-Men. Fine by me cause mutants rule and Mystique is hot sauce.

 

[jfb]

Dude.....definitely an ALIEN!!!

It could be worse I suppose.

 

[László]

It's frostbite.

Your playing is so cool that it's freezing your fingers.

 

[PFL]

Afraid you are not an alien just another case of cheap chinese strings :laugh:

 

[jfb]

Afraid you are not an alien just another case of cheap chinese strings :laugh:

Elixir's!!!

 

[rugerpc]

"We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."

At lease it's not this Borg...

 

[rugerpc]

Other maybe other not so friendly aliens...

 

[TGSCAN]

really ???

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Right. And who is it again that's the only guy trying to be proactive about the threat to our planet from blue guitars?!

 

[MA Pete]

That's it, the trip to Chicago is definitely CANCELLED!!



That doesn't happen to me, but my finger sweat does corrode strings fairly quickly. After a two hour gig, even brand new strings are toast.

When I play one of Alan's guitars, he sets a timer!

 

[jfb]

really ???

Yeah that was after about 2 hours of playing #4080 strung with Elixir's. I seem to remember other strings doing it too. I'm going to switch brands and see if that helps. I've played Elixir's so long I can't remember if other strings are as bad. Regardless, warm water easily washes it off my hands and I clean my guitars thoroughly after each use.

That's it, the trip to Chicago is definitely CANCELLED!!



That doesn't happen to me, but my finger sweat does corrode strings fairly quickly. After a two hour gig, even brand new strings are toast.

When I play one of Alan's guitars, he sets a timer!

Dude. Chicago is happening. LOL.

 

[MA Pete]

Dude. Chicago is happening. LOL.

Ha, literally laughing out loud here!!

 

[]-[@n$0Ma☩!©]

My fingers look like that after playing too. But it only happens with nickel strings.

 

[veinbuster]

My fingers look like that after playing too. But it only happens with nickel strings.

I've seen it to a degree with some strings, but I didn't care enough to pay attention to which ones. Seems like good odds it was nickel though, which I don't use very much.

 

[garrettb]

To quote Frank Zappa, "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" Do you ever clean your fretboard?

Or, maybe, do you oil the fretboard a lot? Could be the board is too moist and gathers a lot of dust and dirt. My suggestion is, next time you change strings, clean the fretboard really well with naptha. If that still happens with a clean board and fresh strings, then you are indeed an alien.

 

[frankb56]

7 of 9 was my favorite Borg:

 

[frankb56]

Never seen anything like that dude, what are your superpowers?

 

[jfb]

Ha, literally laughing out loud here!!

You know you want to chunk on Cherry Cola! :rofl:

My fingers look like that after playing too. But it only happens with nickel strings.

I have read Elixir's are a steel core with nickel wrap.

To quote Frank Zappa, "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?".

Some.

Never seen anything like that dude, what are your superpowers?

My voice.

 

[yankeebulldog]

That's it, the trip to Chicago is definitely CANCELLED!!



That doesn't happen to me, but my finger sweat does corrode strings fairly quickly. After a two hour gig, even brand new strings are toast.

When I play one of Alan's guitars, he sets a timer!

Your sweat also corrodes nitro on the back of the neck. Definitely have to wipe it down after Pete gets his mitts on it. As of now, I don't own a gloss nitro neck so that how I'm solving the problem.

The only time I tend to see that kind if stuff on my fingers is if there is still some filler left in the fretboard (on a new guitar) or if I use Gorgamite on a fretboard and didn't get all of it off.

 

[Boogie]

I dunno. It only happens to me when I play Markie's guitars. He oils the fretboards once a year (I think). Otherwise, I've never had it happen anywhere.