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Location: notts | Hi guys, I know how much you like your pictures, follow this link below to see my pictures. You might have to copy and paste into your web browser.
http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd249/stuartbiggs/ |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Nice Stuart! That's a great guitar, enjoy! |
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Location: notts | cheers very pleased with it what a sound only had it a week two little chips the rest spot on will record a song post it on you tube.. |
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| Super nice, congrats. Mine has definitely become my favorite Ovation. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Beautiful,Stuart. What did you use on the bowl to make it look so nice? What kind of strap locks are those? I would like to replace the plastic ones on my 1718. |
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Location: notts | i have no idea all i know is they are gold in colour and solid i thought they were origanal i didnt put anything on the bowl its as it came out the shop not a mark anywhere cheers i just keep stareing at it its a work of art do you put anything on the walnut fretboard at all to moisten it |
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| Hey stuart - I rub lemon oil into the fretboard (on all my guitars) & then buff it out with a chamois whenever I change strings. |
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Location: notts | what is lemon oil normally used for cheers |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by stuart:
what is lemon oil normally used for cheers Making lemonade? |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Squeeky lemons!
sorry 'bout that.
An ingredient in furniture polish. |
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| Hey stuart - you can't just squeeze some lemons ('til the juice runs down your guit), even if you are a limey ;) .
Seriously tho', like Colin says lemon oil is a conditioning oil found in most furniture polishes. You don't want to use furniture polish, tho', as most contain other ingredients that will probably deaden your strings. Pure tung oil would also work, but it's hard to find pure tung oil. Most of it's been "cooked" or polymerized with other resins. You can find pure lemon oil at hardware stores here in the US, and pure tung oil at specialty woodworkers stores. Don't know about UK. If you use tung oil you'll want to let it "cure" for a day or so after applying it before re-stringing. |
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Location: notts | thanx will try and find some does it taste nice on pancakes |
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Location: UK | Stuart , looks a mighty fine guitar , just like mine , apparently maybe the only 2 in the country . I tried to get pictures of mine up but something has happened to my camera , when i connect it up to the computer nothing happens and i havnt got a clue what the problem might be , so any syggestions gratefully received , |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Batteries? :D |
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Location: Munich, Germany | We had this often before...
Lemon oil is a standard to clean and refresh a fretboard, but some say it's not the best choice. Meaning is that it strips out the original oil of the wood, replaces it with it's own (which evaporates quickly) and makes the fretboard, the more you use it, drier then it was before.
As it comes to maple fretboards: They are sealed/lacquered. No oil is needed! And some oils will even do harm to them.
And I think the walnut ones are sealed/impregnated as well.
To everybody it's own - but I wouldn't use lemon oil (even if it says fretboard conditioner).
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Location: Scotland | Kurt is right, actual lemon (citrus) oil should not be used. The stuff sold in guitar stores as "Lemon Oil" is actually just a light mineral oil to which a lemon fragrance has been added. Occassional use of this is OK |
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Location: CT | I use Fret Doctor , and am very happy with it. |
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Location: Tennessee | +1 on Fret Doctor. |
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