People should wash after playing too.
Don't believe me....wipe your eyes after a good session. No don't do that...take my word and just wash.

Oh and I used to tell my students to keep their hands clean but wait like 20 minutes or so after washing them before picking up the guit. If you wash the oils off your hands they will secrete more for a while to compensate. Let your skin balance itself out before playing and it might help. Cheers.

Maybe those that I've seen play with their feet have an advantage LOL.

If I did that my guitar would get very stinky. ;-)

Ew... I don't want my feet to smell like urine.

Rain, I don't think you have a serious problem, or an uncommon one. Many folks gum up strings. Most of my customers change their strings every day when gigging, and that's for maybe 3 hours of playing. I have a couple others that never change strings until they break. I find that most people have a different sensitivity to the sound of new strings. Some guys figure they're dead while the next guy says they're fine.

In my experience pure nickel strings lose those extra harmonics more quickly then something like GHS Boomer's, which are a blend of nickel and stainless. DR makes a number of strings with coloured coatings that last pretty well. I've tried Elixir's and not liked them, but there's another coated string that Phil X is promoting. I haven't tried them but Phil has good ears. Have a Google.

So stay away from pure nickel and try stainless wraps or coated. You will be much happier.

This would sure be worth trying out Rain.

Be selective with your strings. Realize that "pure nickel" is only about
8% nickel (usually electroplated steel) and steel. A very good string. Optimum for magnetic pups and easy on the frets.

Stainless?......you're frets...your choice. Found under premature fret wear. Sorry John...
I sure wouldn't recommend them unless the guitar had stainless frets or the cat didn't
mind a fret job in the near future.

How long strings last?....opinions I put with what good tone is.
I change mine when I see rust or they break....and until I go for a keeper recording or I'm adjusting a guitar...what in the world does it matter if I can still play in tune for practicing? JMO.

A phosphor bronze may be a good string to try out with some of that stringlife.
I'd sure try that before the liquid gloves ( which was a bad joke....that nobody seemed
to think was funny but me)

Just curious (since I, fortunately, don't have this issue), but is there anything you can wash your hands with before you play to alter the PH?  As opposed to putting something on your guitar that is.

Rain


Not impossible, indeed. It may contribute.

Maybe I should try something else, like those new cobalt strings.

I just picked up a set of 10-52s for mine today after I get done running through it real good cleaning and doing a setup on it.  I hope they sound good on recordings