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Post by birdo on May 4, 2018 5:56:58 GMT
What would folk use on a bog oak fretboard?
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 5:58:17 GMT
When I restring I clean the fretboard with a tiny amount of vaseline.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2018 5:59:14 GMT
What would folk use on a bog oak fretboard? In 7 years I’ve never used anything on my bog oak fingerboard.
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Post by dreadnought28 on May 8, 2018 5:16:55 GMT
To remove scratches I use Mer or Super Nikco polish - probably best not to do it too often though. For general cleanage, I do the same as Keith, but use spit (so nobody else wants to touch my guitars!). I use Squirroil for the fingerboard, made by Stefan Sobell. Apparently ebony needs the odd feed, unlike rosewood which is naturally oily. See 15th Oct. 2009 here: www.sobellguitars.com/news-page/page/8/Jonny There are enzymes that make spit and polish the easiest and cheapest way to go. Very occasionally I’ll apply a specialist guitar polish but the aforementioned method is my modus operandi 95% of the time.
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Post by minorkey on Aug 9, 2018 22:20:46 GMT
When I restring I clean the fretboard with a tiny amount of vaseline. Not that bad surely. But then I don't have mega expensive guitars.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2018 7:05:03 GMT
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Post by bellyshere on Aug 10, 2018 10:24:46 GMT
I think i’ve only ever cleaned a guitar once and that was to remove blood from when i cut my hand at a gig. I hear Unicorn tears are best for cleaning fretboards.
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Post by grayn on Aug 10, 2018 11:50:55 GMT
I'm with Keith, on the huuuuurrrring. I think the less you rub a guitar, the less wear it gets. Dust is the only thing I try to get rid of, oh and dribble, too.
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Post by bleatoid on Aug 10, 2018 18:01:38 GMT
I've been doing the huuuuuurrrrring-and-gentle-wipe-with-a-clean-old-white-tee-shirt routine for ages - doesn't work for my poisonous pustules - I still have a couple of haze patches built up on the top of my Martin. So for £5.99 I've ordered a pot of these. I shall post a comprehensive review on the reviews page, and if they're completely and utterly useless, I shall list the remnants for sale on the classifieds page. Peter
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Post by bleatoid on Aug 21, 2018 11:47:13 GMT
Kyser KDS500W Instrument Polish WipesThe pot of these that I referred to in the post above just arrived yesterday. As I mentioned, I got them because as a life-long "huuurrrrrrr" protagonist I noticed a haze building up on the top of my Martin at the top of the lower bout where my arm touches it. The packaging is a bit of a faff - and a tad irritating if, like me, you find packaging generally to be a life shortening experience. The product is a perforated roll of soaked wipes - first time around you need to take the whole top off the pot, fish out the middle one, feed it through the thingy and put the top back on. Unnecessary, slightly messy palava - plus the top is a very loose fit - I'm going to put some tape around where it joins the pot to make sure they don't dry out. Do they work? Yes - to a pretty good degree - the guitar looks lovely (and for those secret guitar sniffers amongst you, it smells very nice too). Has all of the haze gone - no - but it's much reduced and I decided not to go at it too much but to do a little more in a few weeks. The wipes are well loaded with polish and it doesn't evaporate quickly (like those kitchen worktop wipes) so 1 wipe out of the pot will easily do 2 maybe 3 guitars even putting it down for a bit while you buff with a clean dry cloth between applications. They're intended for polished tops but one guitar I have has a rosewood bridge that appears a little dry so I put some on that and it looks pretty good. Are they worth it? Yep - I think so - they seem to have gone up in price to about a tenner now but I nabbed these at £5.99 on amazon as I baulked at the price of the Martin branded ones - these come recommended by the Faith / Eggle chaps. If one wipe does 3 guitars and you buff your fleet once a month or so, they should keep you pleasantly shiny and smelly for a couple of years, even assuming the last few dry up a bit. Obviously these economics don't apply to Martin who will need to look at bulk purchase options. Peter
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Post by andyhowell on Aug 22, 2018 6:56:29 GMT
I’m in favour of the Quentin Crisp approach. He was talking about not doing housework, but I think he’d approve. “After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse” Very wise. An occasional damp cloth works for me but only when I’m feeling responsible.
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