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.

I'm a bass player for 40+ years. I had to take a long break due to a hand injury, and when I started practicing again I got blisters on my fingertips.I thought this stuff was going to be like Nu Skin or superglue, but nope - it works so much better. The key is THIN coats. multiple coats if you need them. Two thin coats is all it took for me, I was playing again within minutes AND the blister healed very quickly - it was almost gone the next day.I keep a bottle in my gig bag now at all times.

So the entire bottle only has 4 milliliters which is really not that much product. And it's kind of pricey! However, I really like this product a lot and it helps me play guitar for longer hours and I really am satisfied with this efficiency of this product. I had to order some more I would have given this five stars but the liquid callus supply does not last that long. Often times I will put on multiple coatings on a specific finger that's doing a lot of work in order to really get that thick callus effect.People who say that only beginners should use this are wrong. I'm an experienced player and this product helps me out. Beginners should be developing their calluses more "naturally"... But if you are an experienced player or if you still practice a ton after already developing thick calluses that are being broken down from your vigorous playing? Then this product is a great option for you. Keep jamming, guys.

Worth buying, never had callus.

The only real competitor to Rock Tips is a very thin layer of Superglue. Rock Tips is better because the applicator can spread this more appropriately so that you don't lose the feel of the strings. Superglue can very quickly mask that feel causing mistakes, as well as the edge of the applied glue actually catch the string like a fingernail. As Superglue starts to wear, it will get little creases that can again just lightly pluck the string like a fingernail brushing it where as Rock Tips generally doesn't. I just really don't like the price of this product, which is also rising too quickly. You don't get very many applications until the bottle is drying and soon the brush applicator breaks. That's because this product arrives with very little actual fluid in the bottle. I regret needing to use this product once in a while but anyone who works a lot of overtime (which is a lot of you) eventually needs this bailout to get through a set. Rock Tips, please fill the bottle.

I have played harp for over a decade and always struggled with getting/ keeping good callouses in order to play for longer periods of time. I frequently get blisters and then need to reduce practice time for a few days. This is advertised for guitar players and I wasn't sure if it would work for my needs since harp is played in a very different way. I experimented with where on my fingers to apply, finally figuring out what works best for me. It was a little weird at first but after using a few times, I find I can play as normal, but with less pain, no blistering, and for longer periods!! I wish I had known about this when I first started playing harp and then preparing for recitals in college!!It lasts for about a day once applied. Most recently, it held up for a three hour set I played at a fundraising gala, and I even took two short breaks and washed my hands during that time. If it was recently applied and fully dried, it will not wash off with just soap and water, so that's good. It wears off by itself over time. Definitely going to keep this in my gig bag and on my music stand for long practice sessions!!!I also appreciate the facts that it's non-toxic and made in the USA! I like getting to support American manufacturers.