Yes indeed, it is sometimes the case that the dry and cracked skin is not only a sign of the weather or climate, but can point to a vitamin deficiency, and, as Sandra has pointed out, not keeping yourself hydrated properly.

For guitar players, there is an old trick to use when practicing and wanting to harden up the fingertips quickly. Warm salt brine soak of the fingertips.

You can use table salt and a teacup of warm water. Dissolve enough salt in there to make a brine.

When the fingertips get to hurting, sit down in the easy chair and soak them in the teacup for ten minutes or so.

Now, don't jump right up and grab yer guitar again, unless you like to rust and deaden your strings within minutes after touching them with all that salt on your fingers, go wash your hands first and then let them dry well.

A few weeks of practicing and that salt brine regimen can build fingertips that don't crack, don't hurt for a six hour gig, don't split, and as a side bonus from all that scaling and chording, you can now rip a pay telephone out of the wall with your left hand!


--Mac

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