{"id":86,"date":"2007-11-05T02:30:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T06:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2007\/11\/05\/my-new-fingernail-experiment\/"},"modified":"2011-07-15T01:25:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T05:25:25","slug":"my-new-fingernail-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2007\/11\/05\/my-new-fingernail-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"My new fingernail experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Well good readership, I have been going on for a while about fingernails. Let&#8217;s make things clear, I&#8217;m talking about the ones on my right hand only! <\/p>\n<div class=\"c354d1e329b235f1862b41000f5a4d18\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* Guitar_inpost_300x250 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3631424768\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I envy people with finger nails that they could use as screw drivers! I just wish that there was a product that really made a difference on mine. The only thing that I found on line is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finefretted.com\/html\/guitarist_s_guide_to_fingernai.html\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ext-link\">Guitarist Guide to Fingernails<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At work in the surgical area, there is a new finding that acrylic finger nails trap germs on them and that we are told not to use them. Ahhhhhhhh, but I need mine to play at the level that I am accustomed to. So, I have decided to go a different root this time. I am forgoing placing the regular acrylic tips on and just placing the hardener right on to the nails themselves. This totally eliminates the tips that are causing the problem.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>In order to pull this off, I had to let my nails grow a bit longer then I would have them praying just to have a larger surface to work with. You know just in case things went south very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>I am now back from my secret manicurists hide out and we&#8217;ve successfully applied the above mentioned hardener right onto the nails on my right hand. To the axe cave I go! I then picked up the axe and started to put my experiment to the test! <\/p>\n<p>At first, I tried a bit of Bruce Cockburn&#8217;s <em>If I had a Rocket Launcher<\/em> and it was not that bad. I then began to adjust the length and shape of the nail to my specifications with my handy dandy file. <\/p>\n<p>Now it was time for tougher challenge, playing <em>Blackbird<\/em> at warp speed! They are holding their own so far. 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