What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

Its all in the fingers, or is it?

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What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

Post by H671 »

Must be time for some creative discussion! :)

They say tone is in the fingers so, what's best, fat or skinny fingers?
Many famous blues players are/were rather large with lots of body fat & fat fingers and had great tone.
Equally, there are/were many great skinny players.

What are your thoughts.
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Re: What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

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Tone is in the codpiece.

(For all us fans of 80's metal...)

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Re: What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

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I think the answer is to replace the bottom joint of each finger on your left (or right, if you're a lefty) with good tone wood.
Korina or Maple if you are a shredder, or Mahogany if your preference is Jazz.

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Re: What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

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Or your finger tips with some sort of plastic & leather contraption ?

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Don't know much regarding guitarists but most girls like fat fingers
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I think the parts that matters most for tone is: how hard is the pad of skin on the end.

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Re: What's best for tone - Fat or Skinny Fingers?

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You don't think that a soft fat finger gives a more mellow tone?
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not too fat and not too skinny... juuuuuust right. Goldilocks fingers

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Fish fingers?
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Quote from Steve Vai
" Well before I hit the stage I like to down me a bucket of KFC cus the grease from thems chickens gives me the slippery didgets required to shred away "
Hence the term Finger Lickin Good

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Olderama wrote:Quote from Steve Vai
" Well before I hit the stage I like to down me a bucket of KFC cus the grease from thems chickens gives me the slippery didgets required to shred away "
Hence the term Finger Lickin Good

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I guess he has a lot of gear he can sell to afford that damned elusive KFC!

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Maybe we need a whats the best KFC combo for toan thread?
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1 Doz wicked wings gets you that SRV toan

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jeremyb wrote:Maybe we need a whats the best KFC combo for toan thread?
Or does any other fried food provide good tone?

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