Jim Busby wrote: >Tried everything under the sun. CA glue worked > better than new skin. Lotions and creams work if used > constantly, but have other properties I hate. My outlook on this stuff is as mindlessly simple as me. I don't want to dink around with such things as my body falling apart on me when I need it to stay out of the way. I have things to do, and there are more interesting ways to spend time. I don't carry a pharmacy with me into the field, nor have one in the shop, and I don't care to try to baby fingertips that have decided to spontaneously delaminate on me. I want them to hush up and quit whining. I want something quick and idiot resistant, on hand, that lets me get right back to what I came here for without unnecessarily holding me hostage. If I whack a hunk out of myself in the shop, it's going to be either masking tape, tape stitches (even if it's three or four), or a full bore trip to the emergency room. Anything less than the emergency room trip ideally will have me back at it within a couple of minutes - depending. I'll take plenty of breaks on my own schedule, but I hate having them imposed by ouchies. Fortunately, I don't knock out big chunks much any more, so I need something that will put me back together quickly and benignly and let me get on with it immediately. When I stumble across something that does just that, it goes on my "A" list. Masking tape went on the "A" list many years ago as the result of a knife slip that I just wasn't interested in dealing with at that moment. Hours later, I realized that I'd been using that finger all day without discomfort or further bloodshed, as if it had never been slashed by a passing idiot (me) in the first place. So the next time a finger split during a tuning, out came the tape (which I carry, unlike CA, New Skin, bag balm, etc), and again beat on keys the rest of the day without discomfort or bloodshed. This simple thing works so far beyond any reasonable expectation that I really couldn't care less how funny it looks. I LIKE it! > This is why I have a special folder for anything Ron > writes. Hey Ron, got a cure for cancer, hemorrhoids, acne, > or anything else? Beats me. I've found that pretty much every one of us knows something we don't consider to be any big deal or great revelation, that someone else has desperately needed for years. If we only knew what it was... > I'm putting some tape back on for the rest of the day. > > Jim Busby Glad I could help. Ron N
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