Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: mikeluke on August 15, 2007, 03:47:42 PM
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Any suggestions for cleaning a rosewood fingerboard? I don't think that the guy who had the guitar before me has ever washed his hands in his life!! It is FILTHY!!!
Lemon oil appears to be working but it is a slow process - anything else that I could use to get the grime off before applying lemon oil to condition the fingerboard?
Thanks
Mike
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a good rub down with 0000 wire wool will work wonders:
http://www.axminster.co.uk/product-Liberon-Steel-Wool-23679.htm
just put some masking tape over the pickups first to keep the mess out
another good trick for cleaning stuff is to use some lighter fluid for petrol lighters (naptha) on a rag - but this will remove oils from the fetboard as well so it will need reconditioning with the lemon oil.
I assume you are using proper lemon oil (i.e. lemon essential oils) rather than a lemon smelling cleaning product that is sometimes sold for guitars
http://www.simplysupplements.net/lemon-essential-p-150.html?gclid=CJikx5vi940CFQQdEgodcBXTOQ
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some say ethanol, but I'd get that confimrd first
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lol a wild guess here, but maybe some CILIT BANG!!
It works on everything else, i must try that sometime haha.
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i probably wouldnt want to use something that corrosive :wink:
Lighter fluid is good because it evaporates away quite quickly - just dont smoke aroud the guitar... dont you all know Jimi hendrix was frustrated by the dirt on his guitar at the montery pop festival, thats why he soaked it in lighter fluid!!!!
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
If I ever see Barry Scott, I'm gonna bitch slap him for shouting in my front room :lol: :lol:
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Mmm - might try white spirit then - less agressive/dangerous than alcohol/lighter fluid...
I usually use wire wool on the frets but I try to keep it off the fingerboard as I have found that it can mark it.
Thanks folks
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what, the really fine 0000 wire wool!!! it dont scratch at all in my experience. but i do tend to finish off going along rather than across the fretboard so i am following the grain for the final polish!
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0000 grade wire wool shouldn't scratch. So soft that could probably wipe your backside with it (although I really wouldn't recommend that)
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My mate was singing the praises of the Dunlop Lemon Oil he got the other day. For myself I couldn't say, my fretboard is minging - I did clean it with linseed oil when I bought the guitar (in 1993) :lol:
:twisted:
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If you have a cat, you can smear the fretboard with fishpaste (avoid mackerel as it is oily) and get your cat to eat the paste off the board and when he or she is licking off the last remnants, the abrasive tongue is perfect for bring up the 'board a treat.
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Water and a hard bristle toothbrush and then lemon oil works for me.
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If you have a cat, you can smear the fretboard with fishpaste (avoid mackerel as it is oily) and get your cat to eat the paste off the board and when he or she is licking off the last remnants, the abrasive tongue is perfect for bring up the 'board a treat.
ROFL
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Water and a hard bristle toothbrush and then lemon oil works for me.
just be sparing with the water if thats what you are going to do!!