jetsam
November 9th, 2019, 03:57 PM
Anybody think that artificial callouses for hopelessly masochistic "dad rock" guitar players is a good product idea? I've been wanting to do product design at least at a hobby level for a while now, and maybe I could make a mint with this one? Not sure... they'd just be band aids basically, but come in packs of five easy to apply and remove sets. (One for each fretting-hand finger, one for the thumb, one maybe for the palm, and one more for the bar chord finger...
Prototyping is not in an advanced stage... A pack of band-aids and a cheap steel-string are all that is needed. My Baby Taylor works well, for me even without the callouses. But I remember being 13 and unable to bar an 'F' chord, and that's a unnecessary frustration for a student guitarist... We target-market the Dads, of course, because the Dads have the wallet, and no time to practice, and $3000.00 guitars gathering dust in the closet.
Who's in? :D
P.S. It's not all about the Benjamin's. Normal human beings can't do this without some kind of assistance:
Rev. Gary Davis playing Candyman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlQZwHcBqyQ)
... or this:
Big Bill Broonzy 1957: 3 Songs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-pShRISHnQ)
...you gotta love Big Bill's smile in the third song of last video; he's getting surprised by his own playing, and it cracks him up a little. :) That's something that doesn't happen until you've been playing more than a few years...
Gary Davis broke his wrist, and it got re-set in a strange position early in life. Django, too, had his hand stepped on by gangsters, and played with two fingers afterwards 'cause the other fingers of his fretting hand were weak or missing :sad:
Prototyping is not in an advanced stage... A pack of band-aids and a cheap steel-string are all that is needed. My Baby Taylor works well, for me even without the callouses. But I remember being 13 and unable to bar an 'F' chord, and that's a unnecessary frustration for a student guitarist... We target-market the Dads, of course, because the Dads have the wallet, and no time to practice, and $3000.00 guitars gathering dust in the closet.
Who's in? :D
P.S. It's not all about the Benjamin's. Normal human beings can't do this without some kind of assistance:
Rev. Gary Davis playing Candyman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlQZwHcBqyQ)
... or this:
Big Bill Broonzy 1957: 3 Songs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-pShRISHnQ)
...you gotta love Big Bill's smile in the third song of last video; he's getting surprised by his own playing, and it cracks him up a little. :) That's something that doesn't happen until you've been playing more than a few years...
Gary Davis broke his wrist, and it got re-set in a strange position early in life. Django, too, had his hand stepped on by gangsters, and played with two fingers afterwards 'cause the other fingers of his fretting hand were weak or missing :sad: