Fingers and Finger Nails...

[Naveed Afzal]

Aight lets talk about fingers...
lets post pictures of our fingers...
we talk about picks alot, so lets show love to our fingers.

Who else has grown out their picking hand fingernails to the point that they catch the strings when you play?(its like DT'n with your fingers).

actually... i think this thread isnt going to make it...

[SixnStones]

you lose, i don't have any of either

[Naveed Afzal]

lol... you could talk about fingers sheesh.

[BenJammin]

I hate long finger nails. The sound of them scraping against my strings drives me crazy.

[maco]

I always have long nails, but that's cuz I was really girly for a while and got used to them being really long and now when they break I feel like about 1/4" of my fingers are missing. This creates problems with my fretting hand as I have to position my fingers so that the pad of my finger presses the string but the nail doesn't get in the way. I'm alright as long as I keep them around 1/8". Currently, my ring and pinky finger nails are like 1/4" long though. My "picking" hand (I don't use picks) has all 1/8" nails right now because I broke them a few weeks ago. I don't really use them when I play very much, at least not intentionally. I just like how they look long and I can't pick flat objects up without them so I have to keep my nails long.

[BassPlayingPineapple]

I have short boney fingers, and no nails because i bite them out of habit.

[super deluxe]

I don't have hands, I just have two pirate hooks. They're fancy:

http://www.morbid.demon.co.uk/pirate-hook.jpg

[Bass_swede]

I bite mine too, have done for as long as I can remember..






If they only could give me food at home! :upset:

[WHoRRID]

i dont rlly grow them out but i do use em to play alot. like two fingerstyle but i hit the nail on the up stroke, im still working on perfecting it on the higher strings but when played fast enuff it blends rlly well and u dont get so much of a ping sounds more like open harmonic with more clarity if that makes sense.

[crazy_caveman]

I have average hands with tapered artistic fingers with large knuckles and really fat pads on the ends and bitten off finger nails. the only thing that gets in the way is my palm is wider than is proportionate to the rest of my hand.

[Bass-AKIRA]

I use my nail as a pick:smash:

[Kiddo]

i dont have any nails

[Teh Glees0rz]

Maximum ROFL-age @ super deluxe

I hate the sound of my nails hitting the strings, so as soon as they start to get long again, I cut them. In fact, I'm going to cut them now.

If you've lucky Naveed, I might take a picture of them. :naughty:

[Pinhead13]

I use my nail as a pick:smash:

I do too, I hate that TWACK!! TWACK!! TWACK!! sound that a pick produces when hitting the strings.

[rh15951]

Aight lets talk about fingers...
lets post pictures of our fingers...
we talk about picks alot, so lets show love to our fingers.

Who else has grown out their picking hand fingernails to the point that they catch the strings when you play?(its like DT'n with your fingers).

actually... i think this thread isnt going to make it...

When you didn't even post a pic was where the thread went tits up.

[Kibuddy]

I have long, skinney fingers, and I let the nails on my index and middle fingers (right hand) grow just a bit longer than my other nails, so I can get a more agressive attack on the strings. It sounds almost like using a pick, but I still get to use my fingers.

[PaulR]

I have short boney fingers, and no nails because i bite them out of habit.
Hey, me too.

[ShelBel]

I have funky pinkies. I'll have to take pics... sometime... I have a friend (excellent bassist) who has forbidden me from ever even THINKING about picking up a guitar because they're so odd...

[Left Shoe]

i cut mine ridiculously short so they never get in my way

[Spencer]

Hey, me too.

me three :( there hideous.

[Chris K]

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a47/ChrisKemp/Picture34.jpg

[sixner]

i have no nails... it's an obsessive compulsive thingy... if there are any whites at the end of my nails, i tear them off on the spot.... i keep nail clippers at the computer desk.....

i have nubs :upset:
:lol:
-sixner

[irishslappop]

ummm. no.

[Naveed Afzal]

When you didn't even post a pic was where the thread went tits up.

the picture thing was more of a joke...

i didnt think anyone would actually doit

Leave it to the strange and weird Chris K....

[Chaos]

I use my nail as a pick:smash:

I use my pick as a nail.

o.O

I always wanted to grow out my nails and use them in bass playing but I always bite them, so I phail.

[Jahmez]

I have pretty long nails for a guy, but they look nice. I keep the middle and index fingers on my right hand cut to where there about an eighth of an inch of white, that's just enough not to hit the strings when I play. Also, that length allows me to use my index fingernail as a pick. I'd probably have better fretting technique if I had shorter nails, but it doesn't cause me any problems.

[Naveed Afzal]

I have pretty long nails for a guy, but they look nice. I keep the middle and index fingers on my right hand cut to where there about an eighth of an inch of white, that's just enough not to hit the strings when I play. I'd probably have better fretting technique if I had shorter nails, but it doesn't cause me any problems.

yeah apparently im double jointed...

hey Gav, what kind of polish do you paint your nails with?:amaze:

[Chris K]

the picture thing was more of a joke...

i didnt think anyone would actually doit

Leave it to the strange and weird Chris K....

If you'll notice, I'm making an offense gesture ;)

perhaps it demonstrates my feelings for this thread, perhaps not. It means whatever you want it to mean.

[Naveed Afzal]

If you'll notice, I'm making an offense gesture ;)

perhaps it demonstrates my feelings for this thread, perhaps not. It means whatever you want it to mean.

here in the US that means peace... so i dont know what you are talking about.

[Naveed Afzal]

I don't have hands, I just have two pirate hooks. They're fancy:

http://www.morbid.demon.co.uk/pirate-hook.jpg


I just realized, you return pwn't my thread... touche, Mon Frere. :mad:

[Chris K]

here in the US that means peace... so i dont know what you are talking about.

Oh, I though peace was "two fingers raised but with the palm facing forwards".

You see here, it is an insult that dveloped from the mocking gestures English soldiers made to French soldiers, who, apart from being reknonwed cowards, were also awful archers.

They often lost their finger tips through poor archery technique, whereas the English had good technique and so could often be seen mockingly "giving the rods".


Nowadays, it is quite a crude insult.

[sixner]

Oh, I though peace was "two fingers raised but with the palm facing forwards".

You see here, it is an insult that dveloped from the mocking gestures English soldiers made to French soldiers, who, apart from being reknonwed cowards, were also awful archers.

They often lost their finger tips through poor archery technique, whereas the English had good technique and so could often be seen mockingly "giving the rods".


Nowadays, it is quite a crude insult.

odd.... but neat :thumb:

i think i read about that in sociology last year...... theres some weird stuff like that, i forget most of them though....
-sixner

[FunkMetalBass]

Oh, I though peace was "two fingers raised but with the palm facing forwards".

You see here, it is an insult that dveloped from the mocking gestures English soldiers made to French soldiers, who, apart from being reknonwed cowards, were also awful archers.

They often lost their finger tips through poor archery technique, whereas the English had good technique and so could often be seen mockingly "giving the rods".


Nowadays, it is quite a crude insult.

That is news to me. Cool!

That would be an interesting website. What different hand gestures mean around the world and how they came to be. I think I may start making that site.

[delinquent]

I don't have hands, I just have two pirate hooks. They're fancy:

http://www.morbid.demon.co.uk/pirate-hook.jpg


arrrrr that be a mighty hook you have there haharrrrrrr!


i keep my finger nails fairly short... mostly because the sound of the nails whe i play fingerstyle annoys me.

[Fubajuba]

I have pretty crazy huge hands. I've sized my hands up with like 90% of the people I've ever met, and they have never been beaten, only tied by a few people, most of them being over 6'6, while I am only 6'0, maybe 6'1. I also got crazy big feet (size 15). My hands, after testing this, are pretty much the size of my girlfriends feet. So, i think she's like a womens 8 1/2 or something.

As for the nails, I try and keep em as short as possible. Depending on the amount I play my bass, they get pretty trimmed just playing, but mainly thats only my right hand because I play some stuff similar to Claypool when I just fiddle around in my room.

[JeBuSrOcKs]

i have extremely long fingers which is very helpful and my nails grow pretty quickly which is quite annoying but i dont mind the sound of my nails on my strings

[nisakss]

I hate having long fingernails, they get in the way when playing and look disgusting.