Rock Tips Liquid Callus Formula for musicians

KWhen I saw this product, I was skeptical, and it seemed like a lot of money for a mere 4 milliliter. However, I’ve now used this more than two dozen times, and it works great. I play guitar and mandolin, and I hadn’t been practicing much. Then I went to Europe for two weeks without an instrument and returned with essentially no callouses at all. Two days later, I left to spend a week studying Gypsy jazz guitar, playing hours a day. Then, a week later, I spent a week playing Brazilian Choro music on guitar. Yesterday I played for hours—until one a.m. This would be very painful or impossible without Rock Tips. After going from no playing to hours a day, I didn’t get a single blister. If my fingers got sore, an application of a Rock Tips solved the problem.Gypsy jazz is played with a pick, so I only used Rock Tips on my left hand. Choro is played with the thumb and fingertips of the right hand (and a thumb pick), so I used Rock Tips on both hands.Using Rock Tips is like using nail polish, but you use it on skin instead of nails. The cap has a little nail polish brush built in. To use it, Imunscrew the bottle, pull out the brush, and in a few seconds paint the fingertips of my left hand. You don’t have to be near. Speed matters. Just paint it on fast. Not the way you would carefully use nail polish. The Imrefill the brush and hold it between two fingers without touching my wet fingernails and quickly paint the pads of my right thumb and three fingers, then close up the bottle. I wave my fingers, blow on them, etc, and in about one minute (even with high humidity), my fingertips are dry and ready to play. If my fingers hurt, the pain disappeared immediately. (Remember, don’t wait until you already have blisters.) I found that the Rock Tips easily lasted for an hour of hard playing (including constant scraping of the guitar strings with the fingertips of my right hand. A couple times my fingertips began to hurt, and I simply added another layer. I often recoated before the next class. I don’t know how many coats are in a bottle, but if you do four fingers with one brush full as I did, at least a couple dozen uses. Maybe much more. Money well spent. This is especially useful for beginners, but it even works for pros who have been playing too hard.I thought this might be superglue (cyanoacrylate), but I don’t think it is. It doesn’t smell like it. For the first minute, the fluid seems a little oily. It’s not as thick as superglue, but it dries fast. It doesn’t feel like superglue. My fingers don’t seem to stick together they way they would with superglue. In any case, if you or your kid has pain from playing strings, get a bottle of this. It’s worth the price.

This is the best stuff to protect your fingertips until you earn your callouses with practice! Boy, how I wish I had this back in the 60s when I first learned guitar! I am just overjoyed with how effective this formula is! It really protects your fingers while practicing your stringed instrument. It is KryptoniteProtection against the sharpest metal strings! It doesn't come off easily, but if you really NEED to remove it, a short soak in hot water with a squirt of Dawn, (which I accidentally discovered while washing a few dishes!) And I am guessing that the formula, once applied would be a temptation to any serious nail-biters, a habit I was sure I had broken 50 years ago!)The formula is in a small bottle and is applied using the "cap brush" (like fingernail polish) on just the small area of your fingertips that needs a little "protection pillow", then allow the formula to dry, less than a minute. Once dry, it gives the greatest protection I've ever used...and I think I've tried EVERY item ever invented by musicians since Noah! I would give it more than just 5 stars, if I could! The only "con" of the formula is that it is hard to remove...so be careful not to get it on your clothing or anything you value (like you would with nail polish). Note to parents: the one thing that contributes to your children not practicing & giving up interest in stringed instruments is that pesky problem "It hurts my fingers"....this is like liquid insurance to solve the issue! So buy a few bottles of this formula along with cases, bags, extra strings, a strap, electronic tuner, music books, etc, etc I have several bottles, one in my guitar case, one in the drawers in my music room, one in the locker I have at music school, and one in my handbag....it's also effective at resolve those surprises runs in your stocking, too!Good luck, and happy playing!

Pardon the ugly fingers, but they were the catalyst for my search for a solution to a temporary problem following a very stupid and clumsy accident with an iPhone and lots and lots of splinters of glass in... pretty much all of my fingers. Ridding myself of these splinters obviously did a number not only on my fingernails but needless to say, playing any stringed instrument to keep practice up was more painful than getting my original calluses (and bloodied fingers) starting out playing with an acoustic 12 string.I was looking for something to put over my fingertips AFTER OPEN WOUNDS WERE HEALED (the internet calls this a type of liquid bandaid but it’s closer to superglue than liquid bandaid, it even says to not use it on open cuts), that could at least make it not as nasty to regain those calluses while learning the banjo and for my mandolin.First off, one coat will not be enough if you have absolutely no calluses at all. In the photo there are four layers and this has done great to make it simply not hurt to play and practice.Secondly, this isn’t a complete solution for calluses. It’s a great hack and nice for if you have some sort spots or you’ve gone a while without playing and your fingertips have softened, or perhaps you’ve been practicing a new instrument for hours and hours and you want to eek out more practice hours — THIS IS FOR YOU!DONT BUY this is you’re looking to skip wearing natural calluses onto your fingertips while learning to become a stringed instrument player, this will only do a disservice to you.Otherwise, try this out and DONT PUT IT ON BROKEN, DAMAGED, OR OPEN SKIN IT WILL BURN BADLY.

I was skeptical but this great product works as advertised. It is a simple solution to a common problem. Kudos…