What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

Its all in the fingers, or is it?

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Re: What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

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null_pointer wrote:All hype dies down around here around 2 weeks after it starts, just be patient :P
I thought it was 3 days

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Re: What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

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Dunno but I noticed when actually practicing last night there's a thorn in my third finger fretting tip. About to get out the needle & extract it.
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It makes sense that bigger fingers make you play better. This could be achieved using a pen*s enlarger.

I am sure plenty of you have these devices although I would not want to borrow one and insert my finger unless I was wearing a thick rubber glove.

According to the 10 emails that I get every day, the enlargers actually work. The emails are from my wife (thanks Jimmy Carr).
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its all in the long hair, nothing to do with fingers

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Aquila Rossa wrote:
griff7628 wrote:I like the tone mr slip on fingers Tony Iommi can get. Actually, he's my hero.
Ozzy said that when he was auditioning before he found Randy, lots of the candidates were trying to be Iommi clones. One of them went as far as having thimble type things on two of his fingers.
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Re: What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

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Back to the OP...stainless steel fingers will be brighter.
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GrantB wrote:Back to the OP...stainless steel fingers will be brighter.
Rosewood or maple fingernails?
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Danger Mouse wrote:
GrantB wrote:Back to the OP...stainless steel fingers will be brighter.
Rosewood or maple fingernails?
Nah - I think all it needs is to scratch ones butt for a brown sound.
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Re: What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

Post by Jay »

I think the middle finger is best, especially with one of these on:

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