Fingerstyle and classical guitar players share the same problem: how to maintain their picking hand's nails, or use artificial nails to enhance performance and tone. For many professionals, the ...

Fingernail maintenance is absolutely essential once all your digits are incorporated in the plucking-hand attack. Since natural nails break easily and always seem to be there least when needed most – ...

About a decade ago, I took the fingerstyle plunge and got fake nails on the advice of Kaki King. She told me to get acrylics — the hardest and most durable nail — at a professional salon. She even ...