I haven't seen mention of this, so I'll throw it in. There are products that are supposed to condition/clean your strings to make them slick and keep them sounding bright. One I use occasionally is "Fast Fret". I can't say for sure how much it might help, but less friction can't hurt! :)

I used to use it a lot on my acoustic, especially. This one cost me 8 bucks and they last a long, long time.

I personally find the electric much easier on the fingers. When I picked the guitar back up after so many years, my acoustic was tearing me up. That's the main reason I started playing electric, which I had for a long time, but aside from cranking Smoke on the Water from time to time, I had never really played.

Then I got hooked on that. It's a different thing to me. If I play acoustic, I automatically want to chord and sing. On electric I want to bar and solo with no inclination toward vocals. It's weird. On the acoutstic I almost feel obligated to sing. :rolleyes: But I digress...

Good luck with the callouses! :)