Wearing rings while playing

axisus

Metal makes my skin sweat, gives a horrible sticky feeling, so I don't wear watches, rings etc. I have no idea where my wedding ring is but my wife has no problem with me not wearing it, I'm an ugly bugger so no one hits on me.

impmann

When I got married in 2003, I found the wedding ring a little odd at first but now I don't even notice it. I don't take it off.

usedtobe

richardhomer said:

HAL9000 said:

Never ever bothered me. I do take my watch off when playing though, but that's because I wear it on my right wrist.

There's an easy way to avoid this damaging your guitar - simply learn to play left-handed....

Or don't get married..

57Deluxe

rings and watches too - all adds extra unwanted resistance.

Evilmags

Some people learm to play slide with them. 

Rocker

Rings and watches - can't see how they would be a problem. I wear mine all the time. Loose bangles and chains are a different matter. For relicing a guitar perhaps?

Sassafras

Evilmags said:

Some people learm to play slide with them. 

I tried that with my Prince Albert ring but I got arrested.

pintspiller

I used to wear a watch all the time. But stopped after about a year of seriously playing guitar. I used to take it off and on, and finally kept it off at all times. I tried with the wedding ring. I really did. But as I was catching the ring on door handles and all sorts, I finally took it off after a couple of years.

My fingers have been swelling over the years. Turned out it's psoriatic arthritis. My wedding ring won't even go over the knuckle now anyway.

xchrisv

I wear a watch and three rings, one of which is on the thumb of my left hand. Half of the internet seems to get its knickers in a twist about the latter whenever we post a video demo but it barely touches the neck, if at all, when I'm playing. Yet people react as if I'm carving great big grooves into the backs of guitar necks. Something tells me that if this was the case, companies would have stopped sending review guitars my way some time ago...

57Deluxe

/\ Yep noticed that too several times and sworn would not by a used guitar off you or let you play one of mine!

Quite like your Swart though... unless you wear steel toecaps!

RocknRollDave

not_the_dj said:

RocknRollDave said:

not_the_dj said:

I take mine off and put it on a chain around my neck.

SHE CHAINS YOU UP BY THE NECK?!

No you've misunderstood, I have to do that for the audience to see me.

Oh, I thought it was some kind of Return of the Jedi cosplay thing you had going on.


You still haven't explained away your gold bikini.....

dano

I keep my wedding ring on my car keys. Easiest place to not loose it.  

richardhomer

dano said:

I keep my wedding ring on my car keys. Easiest place to not loose it.  

Presumably made for pretty awful wedding pictures though?

TheMarlin

I take it off, and pop it on the ring finger of my picking hand. 

Sassafras

I'm happily divorced but while I was married, the wedding ring was the least of my worries.

usedtobe

dano said:

I keep my wedding ring on my car keys. Easiest place to not loose it.  

Speaking as someone who has lost more than one set of car keys, I must disagree..