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Any advice on quickly sealing up a fresh cut on the left middle finger tip? Specifically, so that I can successfully play the guitar at Norwescon this weekend. I'll be doing several hours' worth of playing over the next few days, and I really don't want to have to cancel because of a stupid little cut, regardless of how inconveniently it's positioned.

Hopefully there will be some other guitarists out there who have been through this and can offer good advice. If you've never played the guitar, you might be tempted to recommend I try playing with a band-aid, not realizing how utterly impossible this would be (might as well try it with boxing gloves).

One thing I'm curious to try is cyanoacrylate. Although I don't want to try it unless someone else can give me success stories about having used it in my specific situation. I don't want to take the chance it would make things worse.

Any other ideas?

UPDATE:
Okay, that newskin stuff IS THE AWESOME. Not only could I play just fine, I spent most of the evening joyously poking and prodding at the totally sealed, tough-yet-flexible, completely pain-free cut.

All sorted. Thanks for all the advice, everyone. :-)

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I don't believe that is a cyanoacrylate. It is something much weaker (though flexible). It should certainly help - but be prepared to reapply several times if it is an area that gets wear such as fingertips. And hopefully you and people near you don't mind the smell of cloves. And it will sting a bit in a cut.

Of course, unlike superglue (surgical glue) it is designed to be easy to remove. Depending on the wear and tear you're going to give it you may wish you had the stronger stuff (and later, solvent to remove it). Superglues require what, acetone? Nail Polish Remover? New Skin rubs/peels off.

Well, whatever he wound up getting definitely smelled like superglue, not cloves. We were all getting high from it every time he put more on. :)

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