Originally Posted by: craigbrown1805

I forgot about the initial pain of playing- the tips of my fingers are killing me!

Yeah, but it's a strangely satisfying sort of pain! It is a rite of entry into the club.

I am picturing a T-shirt with an image of a hand with little squiggly lines radiating out of swollen red fingertips showing pain with text: it's a guitar thing, you wouldn't understand.