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Hey @andy_e , I didn’t read the advice that was what I needed when I was troubled by this challenge, so I will share it with you.
Even after I had been playing for a fairly long time I had finger pain. I would get grooves in the tips of my fingers. I learned that if I filed off some of the thick skin around the groove and especially the flaking, peeling skin right in the middle of the callous that got caught on the strings it helped a lot.
Every now and then, when the callous gets so thick that a groove starts to form, I pull out the nail file and take off some of the callous. Not only does this stop the problems the groove causes but my fingers are actually less sore. It’s the thickened pad underneath the skin that I want, not the build up of old, dead skin on the outside. This is simply part of my regular maintenance so I can play guitar every day way too much of the time.
MG 😀