Cleaning your Instrument
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Cleaning your Instrument
Advice and recommendations for the following woods please:
Maple
Wenge
Poplar
Rosewood
Swamp Ash
Preferences for Chrome Hardware (Old Fenders)
Thanks.
Maple
Wenge
Poplar
Rosewood
Swamp Ash
Preferences for Chrome Hardware (Old Fenders)
Thanks.
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Re: Cleaning your Instrument
I bought some of this stuff for rosewood fingerboards about 15 years ago. Just getting to the end of the small bottle now — though admittedly there was a time when I only had guitars with maple fingerboards.
https://beafifer.com/boredoctor.htm
There's a lot of waffle on the site, but it makes rosewood really nice and dark. Couple of drops will do the whole board.
That said, I wonder if this stuff from the RS does the same thing:
https://www.rockshop.co.nz/music-nomad-bore-oil
https://beafifer.com/boredoctor.htm
There's a lot of waffle on the site, but it makes rosewood really nice and dark. Couple of drops will do the whole board.
That said, I wonder if this stuff from the RS does the same thing:
https://www.rockshop.co.nz/music-nomad-bore-oil
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Re: Cleaning your Instrument
Rosewood, use Lemon oil, PROPER Lemon oil, not Pledge. Available from guitar stores. For everything else, spit on it and buff it out.
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Re: Cleaning your Instrument
Combo.
Disposables when you're out of the house or the reusables are in the wash.
The reusable bamboo liners are fucking awesome for soaking up apple juice / chocolate milk / bodily fluids.
I only polish the guitars if they start getting tacky.
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Re: Cleaning your Instrument
My soap, my instrument, I’ll clean as fast as I want.
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Re: Cleaning your Instrument
Hair conditioner is less harsh.
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Re: Cleaning your Instrument
Before and after lemon oil.Slowy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 10, 2021 8:59 pm Rosewood, use Lemon oil, PROPER Lemon oil, not Pledge. Available from guitar stores. For everything else, spit on it and buff it out.
Tip for new Parents:
Debating whether to use disposable or re-usable nappies? Go the re-usable. Your kid will be potty trained before you know it and you will have a lifetime stash of wonderful, soft, lint free guitar polishing cloths.
As an aside, this guitar used to belong to Graham Brazier of Hello Sailor.
It's a total piece of crap.
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Nice. I did the photos for Hello Sailor last time around. They're a good bunch of dudes.
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Re: Cleaning your Instrument
cleaning - use naptha on everything, scrape off gunk with an old loyalty card.
for conditioning rosewood - don't fanny around buying special oils, buy a bottle of raw linseed oil from mitre10, it will last a lifetime - probably two.
for conditioning rosewood - don't fanny around buying special oils, buy a bottle of raw linseed oil from mitre10, it will last a lifetime - probably two.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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Re: Cleaning your Instrument
Lemon oil is mineral oil with lemon scent added. You can buy mineral oil in litres pretty cheaply from Bunnings etc and make it smell however you like with a few drops of essential oil.
If it's been forever the Dunlop 65 stuff is good. I think they call it "deep nourishing" or something along those lines. It comes in a black bottle and I use that when it's been a long while on rosewood or ebony boards.
If it's been forever the Dunlop 65 stuff is good. I think they call it "deep nourishing" or something along those lines. It comes in a black bottle and I use that when it's been a long while on rosewood or ebony boards.
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Re: Cleaning your Instrument
I start by using a dry old, soft toothbrush on fretboards, tuning machines, bridges and any hardware with angles to trap dust & grime. With a bit of elbow grease you'll get rid of 99% of the gunk they collect. Soft bristles are fine with human gums, so they shouldn't damage anything.
After that, a quick wipedown with a damp cloth works for finished areas like the back of the neck and most of the body.
I did quite a bit of research around oils for fretboards a couple of years back. As a result I bought a bottle of food-grade mineral oil, usually used for wood chopping boards. It's safe, non-scented, lasts forever and doesn't go rancid like vegetable-based oils. I think most "lemon oils" are just this + scent.
I bloody love isopropyl alcohol for cleaning amp and pedal bits, but don't use it on guitars.
After that, a quick wipedown with a damp cloth works for finished areas like the back of the neck and most of the body.
I did quite a bit of research around oils for fretboards a couple of years back. As a result I bought a bottle of food-grade mineral oil, usually used for wood chopping boards. It's safe, non-scented, lasts forever and doesn't go rancid like vegetable-based oils. I think most "lemon oils" are just this + scent.
I bloody love isopropyl alcohol for cleaning amp and pedal bits, but don't use it on guitars.
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Re: Cleaning your Instrument
This stuff is primo for regular cleaning/polishing:
https://coproducts.co.nz/shop/polishes/ ... oil-300ml/
Nitro, poly, oil, it makes everything look better.
https://coproducts.co.nz/shop/polishes/ ... oil-300ml/
Nitro, poly, oil, it makes everything look better.
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