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Location: Reno, NV | Dunlop 65 on the top.
Gerlitz Guitar Honey on the fretboard. I'll use a Q-tip and Guitar Honey the rosewood bridge too.
Once a year or as needed I'll use masking tape and tape off the fretboard leaving the frets exposed. Then with a 3 part fingernail buffer use the white side to smooth out any pits or edges, then with the grey side buff them to a shine. Folllow up with Mothers billet polish. This make the frets smooth like glass and shine like jewels. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by ladylaw:
Come on, guys, water on all wood!?
Anita Its a polyurathan finish
you litterally wip it off with a damp rag.
Dunlop 65 likes works better. |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Originally posted by an4340:
And how do you clean your instrument? On my ovations
Lemon oil on the fretboard, neck and headstock twice a year and Gibson polish on the round back.
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Fingerboard / bridge - mineral oil (AKA laxative), courtesy of a very generous OFC member -- you know who you are!
Wood top - Dunlop 65
Adamas top - no idea! Never done it! A damp cloth perhaps?????
Neck - Gerlitz No. 1 Carnauba Wax |
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| Originally posted by alpep:
car wash If you want to save a few dollars just take it down to the river when you're doing your laundry, soak er up real good and then beat er against the rocks along with the cloths etc. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Works every time!! :D
Saliva on the fretboard, just ask Dan Erlewine
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Location: south east Michigan | "Lizard Spit" brand top polish and "Lizard Spit" brand fretboard conditioner.
Just because I like the name. |
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Location: Long Island | i have a some vintage Tazmanian buff master & filth repellent i use sparingly.
on the back it says conceived in the brutish outland of Australia,manufactured in the former British colony of America.
Stringer Industries, Inc Warren NJ |
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Location: enid, ok | Hey, Hobo-maybe we should ask Mr. Hillage and see what he uses (or used) for cleanage.. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | "On my ovations
Lemon oil on the fretboard, neck and headstock twice a year and Gibson polish on the round back.
Anita"
OK, that's wrong. Remember we are talking cleaning here .... Most lemon oils have detergents, and the polish does nothing for the round back.
Clean the top, back of the neck, headstock and bowl with Dunlop 65 or a damp cloth.
To clean your frets, assuming you've been gigging and they're dirty use, wd-40, then clean the frets and fretboard and exposed wood surfaces with a soft tooth brush and naptha, if they are dirty. Once dry, about an hour later, apply mineral oil to areas where the wood is raw, the kind you get at the drugstore. On the back of the neck use butcher's wax. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I clean the finished surfaces (top, peghead) the way I would clean my eyeglasses. Breathe on a spot, then wipe with a clean white t-shirt. Do this all over the top, and you are not as likely to get fingerprints as you would if you use polish. If a guitar is really dirty, I will use Lemon Pledge though. It blows my mind the way people don't take care of their guitars. One time I had a guy bring one in for a re-string that not only had spaghetti sauce splattered on it, but there was a dead fly stuck to the peghead! I usually put the strings on for free if you buy them from me, but that guy got charged!! |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Thanks everyone for your help. I appreciate it.
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Anita,
With all this 'help', what's your cleansing game plan now?  |
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Location: Colorado | When needed, but usually at string change:
Strings off, mask off fretboard for some 0000 steel wool on frets (only if needed), lemon oil on fretboard, Butcher's Wax on neck/headstock.
Once a week:
Pledge on a rag for the guitar top. The Pledge actually gives the black carbon top a nice sheen to it. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Interesting, but I don't spend much time cleaning my guitars. They start off new or in very clean condition, and I don't really deposit much body acid on the guitars, so there isn't really anything to clean. Since everything is hanging on walls in a very controlled environment, they're not subjected to much bad stuff. The infrequently played gear will accumulate some dust which I'll generally just wipe off from time to time. The regular gear doesn't collect much dust. During string changes, I'll use some Dunlop 45 and Dunlop fretboard cleaner on the neck and frets, but that's about it. |
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Location: SoCal | What the Prof said. I'd only add that I go over the bridge with Howard's Feed N Wax. Darkens them a little and keeps them from getting too dry.... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Boil 'em in oil for 32 seconds right after we deep fry the Turkey on Thanksgiving. Kills all those nasty mould and mildewy things that grow around this climate.
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
I clean the finished surfaces (top, peghead) the way I would clean my eyeglasses. Breathe on a spot, then wipe with a clean white t-shirt. Do this all over the top, and you are not as likely to get fingerprints as you would if you use polish. If a guitar is really dirty, I will use Lemon Pledge though. It blows my mind the way people don't take care of their guitars. One time I had a guy bring one in for a re-string that not only had spaghetti sauce splattered on it, but there was a dead fly stuck to the peghead! I usually put the strings on for free if you buy them from me, but that guy got charged!! Better for the environment too. Spaghetti sauce? Well, that explains the fly! I wouldn't be able to take my guitar to be cleaned unless it was all polished up, but then I'd be the one who would clean before the maid came. ;)
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Location: SoCal | Boil 'em? In college, when I couldn't afford new strings, I would take off the wrapped ones one at a time and soak them in boiling water, then wipe them down with a rag. The green crap that would come off of them would be disgusting, and they would sound harsh and crisp for a while, but it got another couple of weeks out of each set..... |
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Location: Reisterstown, Maryland | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Anita,
With all this 'help', what's your cleansing game plan now?
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Anita,
Check your PM. I responded to yours. |
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How do you clean your instruments?
