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Location: Phoenix AZ | You don't want to use anything with citrus or solvents as those will dry out your fretboard. Dave |
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | I use a piece of Scotchbrite pan scourer (the kind with a shaped sponge back glued to it: just cut off a slice an inch wide). That's very good at removing the finger poo that can accumulate on the fingerboard, especially right up against the frets). Rub briskly across the fingerboard. I'm another lemon oil user too; wipe on; then wipe off.
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Scotchbrite That's my secret as well...it will also clean and polish the frets using a lite oil…fretboard oil available at Stew. Mac. works great; go across the fret board parallel to the frets; and light pressure, not heavy! It works like magic! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Y'know how guys are with new tools? You look for ways to use it everywhere?
Well, I just got this high pressure water cleaner....
man does it take off the gunk! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I thought this topic was a euphemism... |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Wrong channel and don't you hate that?
It was years before I could watch "Three Men and a Baby". (And then I regretted it anyway) |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Are you wanting to clean, or oil the fretboard?
If you want to clean it, use naptha, and use a tooth brush to get out gunk from the frets, (take the strings off first!), and be gentil, then apply mineral oil (the kind you get at the drug store) and wipe up the excess.
Simple, and you probably already have the stuff in your house and it's cheap. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I wouldn't use baby oil, because it's got scent put in it and other stuff. You want the mineral oil that you can eat when you're constipated. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | "You want the mineral oil that you can eat when you're constipated."
Interesting. Wonder if my m-i-l's meatloaf would work. |
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Location: CT | I just ordered a bottle of the Fret Doctor stuff. Can't wait to see how it works. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by dvd:
...His recommendation was to use the pure mineral oil located in the pharmacy/medicine dept...I picked up enough at Bimart to last me for years for less than two bucks. Fleet Laboratories has been the #1 provider of Pure Mineral Oil.
Musicians ask for it by name at their local pharmacy.
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Location: Omaha, NE | Frank Ford has a great web site called Frets.com. This is the single best overall guitar repair and maintenance resource on the net (IMHO). He's covers about everything...including fingerboard cleaning . |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Originally posted by an4340:
I wouldn't use baby oil, because it's got scent put in it and other stuff. You want the mineral oil that you can eat when you're constipated. All mineral oil is not the same. What you want is heavy mineral oil. It's very cheap and can be taken internally as a laxative. Baby oil is light mineral oil. I've also used the Old English Lemon stuff and I've found that it works OK as a cleaner with very fine steel wool. Now I use mineral oil and I clean the fretboard with steel wool and a few drops of it. I do it each time that I change strings. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Weaser P:
It was years before I could watch "Three Men and a Baby". NOT to be confused with "Three Men & a Babe"... a completely different genre.
Though they do use a lot of mineral oil,
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cleaning the fret board
