While my guitar gently weeps solo - string lube and nut sauce

jeromegreenday

So i've REALLY been pushing myself after 20 odd years to learn the solos that made me want to pick up the guitar in the first place after being a meandering bedroom guitarist for years. 
I started learning it, easy enough it's just the bend and phrasing that need attention, I was getting blisters on my fingers, I tried some string lube and some nut sauce at the saddles, nut and string tree and wow! It's much easier to do the bends! Sometimes these things aid your technique. I'm glad I tried it. 

BillDL

I've tried nut sauce, but I keep sliding forward off my chair 

It's surprising how much of a cumulative improvement can be made by smoothing off and lubricating the friction points on a guitar.  You probably wouldn't really notice much or any difference if you just lubricated the string tree and saddles, but in combination with the nut it can be very noticeable.

Kittyfrisk

jeromegreenday said:

So i've REALLY been pushing myself after 20 odd years to learn the solos that made me want to pick up the guitar in the first place after being a meandering bedroom guitarist for years. 
I started learning it, easy enough it's just the bend and phrasing that need attention, I was getting blisters on my fingers, I tried some string lube and some nut sauce at the saddles, nut and string tree and wow! It's much easier to do the bends! Sometimes these things aid your technique. I'm glad I tried it. 

Are you possibly trying to play 'Helter Skelter' instead of 'While my guitar gently weeps' ?
Just a thought 

PAL

For sore fingers buy yourself a bottle of surgical spirit from the chemist then find yourself a container like an old henna tub with a screw on top. It needs to be big enough so you can touch the bottom of the tub with your fingers.
pore enough surgical spirit into the tub to cover the ends of you fingers. After playing soak your fingers for about ten
minutes then towel off with a rag or kitchen towel. Don't play guitar until the next day and after you have washed your hands. Within two to three days your fingers won't be sore. The surgical spirit will last for ages in the tub.
I don't like lubricating the nut or parts of a guitar unless you change strings frequently as any type of grease can gunk
up a nut and other parts with dust and dry skin an cause tuning issues but it's up to you. Anyway I hope this helps with
the sore fingers.

PS. Eric Clapton uses witch hazel in his surgical spirit !