Use yer fangers and Cowboy Up!

I was playing a Fender Sonoran today. What a great little guitar. It has a fender neck and it plays a little easier than my other flat tops. Use some extra light strings at first and let your nails grow out on your right hand (that's the secret) and play an hour a night and in a week you won't care. If yer hands are girly (LOL) you can try a rubbing alchohol soak (don't drink it!) or a BetaDyne soak (iodine & soap (so it won't stain yer fingers)). There are other recipes on the intertubes but I don't use the soak methods. Actually, growing out yer nails will limit the pain to just about zilch.

I play without picks for fingerstyle (Clapton does too) and although I can use a thumb pick and steel banjo picks (yes they are clumbsy) I enjoy the "feel" of working the strings.

Anyway just a suggestion.

DTuna