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Location: notts | what wax, polish,oils do people recommend |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Fretboard
1)DW-40
2)Naphtha
3)Mineral oil
Back of neck
-Butcher's wax
Rest of guitar
-Dunlop 65
To get out scratch in the wood top ovation polyester, maybe once every 10 years, use meguire's scratch-x. I don't know what you'd use on an adamas top.
If you do a search you'll see that over the years this has been pretty well hashed over. Various opinions. Use your common sense. |
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Location: Vermont USA | Dunlop 65 for the body
Mineral oil for the fret board
Butchers wax for a satin neck
Now for the Guitar :) |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | What is Butchers wax? Is that just a beeswax polish or something different? |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Dunlop 65 for the body
Mineral Oil for the fretboard and bridge
Gerlitz Carnauba Wax for back of neck |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Finger sweat/oil for the fretboard and neck. Old tee shirt to polish the sound board once in a while. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Dunlop 65 polish for the finished top and back of the neck if it's got a hard finish on it.
Dunlop 65 "ultimate lemon oil" for fingerbd, bridge and back of the neck if you have an oiled neck rather than one with a hard finish on it. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Is the varnish on the shiny top Adamas the same varnish they use on the wood top guitars? Last time I actually used a bit of glass cleaner on a soft cloth and it came up beautiful. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | pledge, lemon flovor, an old terry cloth towel(clean).
for fingerboards and bridges I use the old Bees wax from Warwick basses |
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Location: NJ | Butcher's Wax is a paste wax used for flooring.
Their claim-to-fame is "bowling alley paste" . . . |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Being lazy I use:
Fender Fret board Treatment/Mineral Oil, found in most Music Stores
Dunlop 65 for quick polishing
High Carnuba car wax or Howard's Feed-n-wax Beeswax stuff for hard polish
Tung Oil for bare wood knobs
True-oil for bare necks
Dad-spit and Thumbnail for quick cleanups
Triglycerides from my skin oils when the shiny parts need a little attention.
I hope this helped. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard):
What is Butchers wax? Well, first you catch and kill a Butcher.... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | 
Butcher's Wax
The Butcher's Whacks... |
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Location: GA USA | If Damon were here he'd say Gerlitz Guitar Honey for the fretboard. |
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Location: East Tennessee |  |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I only use t-shirt material, and unless the guitar is really dirty, just a little breath in small spots at a time. (Kinda like cleaning your glasses.) If the guitar is really dirty, Lemon Pledge is fine. The only exception would be OLD guitars, because they have a lacquer finish, and the Pledge could damage the lacquer. Most guitars today have a urethane finish, and Pledge was made for that. Oil on the fretboard and bridge. I never wax my necks, just the occasional Pledge. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Old Diapers
Depends |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | cheese cloth |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
I never wax my necks, just the occasional Pledge. I personally like the grease off of my palms...
Especially if it is a natural wood neck.
The grease stains give it Character! :p |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | that is true, and ear wax is good for bridges. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Micro-fiber cloths |
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Location: NJ | My primary guitar-cleaning cloth is a souvenir concert-tee from the Yes "90125"Tour(83?84?Dave??).
Heather-GreyCotton that's been worn/washed to the pointthat it's GossamerSoft.
Just make a fold in it, and it'll swab-out the smallest corner/crevice. Opened up, it glides over top/neck/fingerboard like a ghost.
Still has a slight, perceptible "hint" of the album-art on the front (screen-printed w/dye-based-ink that became PART of the fabric instead of the cheap "plastisol"-inks that would stretch, crack, peel/chip off . . .)
LoveThatCloth. |
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Location: Jet City | Finished areas - Dunlop 65
Fretboard & Bridge - Gerlitz Guitar Honey Fretboard Conditioner (really just mineral oil with a touch of beezwax)
Hand rubbed Urethane Necks - Butcher's Wax |
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