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Callouses form from slightly injuring the finger tips causing additional skin to grow over the abraded area.
Best to play until your finger tips are just a little sore. Good callouses can build up in a week or so if you play enough but not too much.
Starting out, play every other day then every day as the pain eases and your callouses grow.
After a long layoff from playing, callouses start peeling off. Instead off cutting down to soft tissue with a nail clipper, use sand paper or a nail file to remove loose and rough skin but not the whole callous.

Wow, that's killer, Jerome. Can we expect a video anytime soon?
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After playing for five years in bars with the same five guys, our 600+ song list slowly took on serious songs that became not so serious.
Late night after hours crowds inspired us to add naughty lyrics to our standard songs. For example, "Green Grass of Home" had two arrangements, one for a sober dinner crowd and another for the late night drunks.
Our audiences very much enjoyed a medley of songs by one artist or group. We had medley song groupings by the Beatles, The Eagles, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Creedence etc... where we would play three or four songs by each group sliding from one well known song to the next seamlessly to keep the dancers on the dance floor.
After 25 years in bar bands I finally figured out that our prime function was to sell more booze. I began to experiment with song groupings that could inspire a crowd to drink more. After two years at a roadhouse on a busy highway with a mostly country music crowd, I found that alternating sexy country ballads with ten-minute-long southern rock boogie would have our crowd sweating during the fast song and then returning to their table to chug-a-lug their drinks before returning to the dance floor to rub bellies with the ballad. This music formula doubled liquor sales but the long fast songs sweated the audience out so they weren't any drunker that they normally would be.
Management loved it.
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You have it, resprod.
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Three chords, C,F and G.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCnt-drXsiU&ob=av2n

E-mail sent. Anybody else wants these chords, post below.

I would be honored to give you an unofficial "attaboy", Pete.
I liked it.
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I have long had Hank Senior's "I'm So Lonesome I could Cry" in my fat book.
Such a pretty song.  I have always loved it.
I play senior's version to an older "corn Country" crowd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkztDzpTHKA
If the crowd looks younger, I do B.J.Thomas' version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra9eLLg_6uE
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I picked out my Yamaha acoustic for a friend who left it to me when he died. It plays and sounds so sweet. Bond and then some.
Bought my 1960 Gibson ES330 in 1968 from the lead guitarist in our band who wanted a guitar with a longer neck. I'm a rhythm strummer.
I love the sound. I could set the action lower but I beat on a guitar when I play. No problems except some fret wear in all these years. Bond.

A well known celebrity when for a vacation in Africa. He spent a few days going on safari, riding elephants and other activities tourists do in that part of the world.
The chieftain of the local village invited the celebrity  to his place for dinner. The chieftain asked his guest how he was enjoying his vacation.
The guest replied that he was having a wonderful time but the constant drum beating was getting on his nerves. He complained, " I've been here three days and the drum beating never stops. Do the drums ever stop?"
The chief answered, " You don't want the drums to stop. It's very bad when the drums stop."
The celeb asked, " Why,what happens when the drums stop?"
Chief said, "Tuba solo."

Eric Clapton and Joe Bonamassa:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEEfDdJyxPY

Been playing guitar since the 60's ( I didn't say how well). Learned the tuba in high school. Quit tuba and switched to trumpet/trombone after college to play in a jazz/rock band. Dental problems scotched the trumpet but implants made it possible to play tuba just fine.
Some snobs on my tuba forum insisted on being called tubaists instead of tubists."Who cares" said I. Since tubas produce a bassy fartlike sound that I just love, I wanted people to call us fart hornists but they would have none of that. I since have referred to tuba players as tuba tooters ( to avoid the snobby term "tubaists" that I so despise). My old King Eb tuba was built in 1940 - hence, tubatooter 1940.
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Her's Guitarpix, Topdown and yours truly at the Chordilina Jam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2zgj-L4Ugw