One of my favorite SRV stories is about his calluses. The story is that he practiced so much they would literally fall off. Well if you know how pink the skin is when you lose a blister you know how tender that skin is! No way you can play guitar on that…unless you are Stevie Ray Vaughan and you just super glue the loose calluses back on your fingertips. That is dedication to practicing for sure!
I always like to relay this to my beginning students as they work through the tender finger stage.
RIP “My ol friend!” SRV, August 27, 1990
Mike Slayen ~ Guitarist 
Ewww… did he seriously do that?!
Legend would have it!
He played really heavy gauge strings didn’t he? Guess that didn’t help matters!
Yes, the way he plays he had too…he would break strings left and right if not…he did anyway…
Think I read Chuck Berry say if you don’t break strings you’re not doing it right! I never break strings!
Ive read as thick as .018-.072
Bloody hell! He might as well have just picked up a bass! Haha
Just read that Chuck used 8’s or even banjo strings??? But that was 60 years ago…