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Title: Cleaning an acoustic fretboard
Post by: goddamn electric on September 18, 2008, 06:34:39 PM

I know that its a stupid question and they are bound to be the same, but as i rarely use them apart from playing around at home i'd rather be sure.

Am i ok to clean an acoustic fretboard (rosewood) with lemon oil just like i would a rosewood electric?

cheers

Title: Re: Cleaning an acoustic fretboard
Post by: AndyR on September 18, 2008, 09:36:07 PM

I would. In fact, I have, and everything's still fine! :D

Title: Re: Cleaning an acoustic fretboard
Post by: Elliot on September 18, 2008, 10:56:48 PM

I play acoustic more than electric - lemon is fine.

Title: Re: Cleaning an acoustic fretboard
Post by: _tom_ on September 19, 2008, 09:19:43 AM

I use this for my fretboards and  the rosewood tailpiece on my acoustic - http://www.beafifer.com/boredoctor.htm

Title: Re: Cleaning an acoustic fretboard
Post by: the guitar repair workshop on September 19, 2008, 09:53:03 AM

hiya,
lemon oil doesn't really clean the neck, but yes you can use it just like on your electric. You dont need much, a bottle should last you years. If you soak it too often the wood can get a bit mushy, which i've noticed when doing refrets....all be it on older guitars.
If the neck is pretty encrusted i use a shaped plastic card (my wife's credit card preferably) and a specially shaped stanley blade that gets under the fret. The plastic card can be sharpened like a blade to really get under the gunk.
A good plain cotton cloth and elbow grease is always good too.
After removing the gunk, I polish frets up with an extra fine cutting compound and rotary mini felt wheel on a dremel flexi shaft,  then clean up with a spray that disolves grease very gently. Then I oil the neck and buff the whole thing up.
comes up a treat and gives a nice slick feel,
cheers,
steve