[GeNe],

I dont think it's anything to do with your guitar, IMHO ... I think its you.

Just don't simply blame the guitar (which everyone does). If you actually bought an acoustic guitar worth Rm5000 and still your finger hurts, so what or who are you going to blame now ?

I'm guessing you're a right handed person so the fingers that are in pain is the one on the left hand right ? (The fingers that are forming the chords). It's because the edge of the fingers are not seasoned yet. Seasoned meaning that your fingers are actaully harder then your right hand fingers.

Your fingers will actually get seasoned by the materials of the strings (regardless of metal or plastic) and your sweat. These two agents will make the edge of your fingers harder.

Don't believe me ?,

You actaully said that you experience skin peeling right ? The skin that is coming out is the hard type. My friends told me that you're actaully peeling off the seasoned layer of your fingers. They'll rather keep it then peeling them off.

So all I can say is .... keep playing and playing.

No Pain, No Gain.

that's artistically true .... but blood can actually cause rust on the strings.

I had that experience before. It was during my church events, I snap my left index finger and blood was pouring out. After the event was over, the guitar strings were starting to rust already ....

Hmm, same thing whetever it's on the strings or body.

If you want blood on the guitar body, make sure the blood do not touch the pickups, termolo system or any metal hardware. If not, say hi to rusty hardware.

My friend's guitar kena before, it was during the same church event where my left index finger kena snap. The strings kena rust and somehow the screws on the guitar pick guard got rusty after the event. And the best part is, the screws cannot open !!!

Haha, my church still focus on God. The only "blood" you'll see is at the Holy Communion ... that also is Ribena Blackcurrant

I snap my finger while I was trying to open the Music Stand for my guitar chords. Somehow, there's so many steps to open it ... and i think i missed one of the steps in result of snapping my finger

BTW: this thread is getting way off topic ....