More lacking than glue-on-nails might have been some of the modern files and abrasives used to polish the nails. Badly prepared nails give a terrible result for both sound and playability. My teacher back in 1965 had studied with Segovia, and showed me how Segovia prepared his nails: after some filing, he used a wooden block with a saw-cut slot in it and a piece of chamois wrapped around the wooden block. The nail was then rubbed back and forth on the chamois over the slot, which acted as a track to guide the nail. When I began to study metallurgy and the art of cross-sectioning and polishing metals to view their microstructure, I experienced a revolution in materials to polish the nails that were quickly adopted by many people playing with nails.
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