Bass fingers & contact lenses

[ChrisJaxon]

Is it just me, or do others find it increasingly difficult to extract contact lenses when the necessary fingers have been working hard on the strings? Wifey has to extract them for me! 

[mikegatward]

I’m lucky in that I have what the optician said was an excellent technique for getting lenses out by squeezing the eyelid.

 

Just a shame I don’t have excellent technique on a bass guitar 😂

[ChrisJaxon]

18 minutes ago, mikegatward said:

I’m lucky in that I have what the optician said was an excellent technique for getting lenses out by squeezing the eyelid.

 

Just a shame I don’t have excellent technique on a bass guitar 😂

Not tried that one. Will give it a try! 

[mikegatward]

2 minutes ago, ChrisJaxon said:

Not tried that one. Will give it a try! 

I just squeeze above and below using both hands and they pop out easy

[Jondeeman]

I have this problem - limited feeling in my fingertips and could easily take my own eye out...

[ChrisJaxon]

Same here! 

[JPJ]

18 hours ago, Jondeeman said:

I have this problem - limited feeling in my fingertips and could easily take my own eye out...

Snap! Being right handed and exclusively playing finger style for 35+ years has left me with callouses or dead finger sensation. Post gig I use a liberal amount of lens cleaning/storage fluid on my finger tips then slide the lens off to one side before pinching to remove it.