I don't do much maintenance to my shit. I don't bash or abuse my guitars, but they're guitars. I keep em playing nice, fix things that go wrong, keep em clean-ish, but I don't baby them.
But today I treated my two Les Pauls to a fretboard cleaning and oildown massage with a happy ending. I got some F-One oil, dumped it on a rag, and got to scrubbing. Man, I didn't realize how much gunk had built up on my fretboards. The fretboards drunk that shit in and now they're super smooth and dark and look and feel really nice. Frets are slick and smooth. Like butta. Do it if you haven't.
I do it about annually - have a bit restringing / cleaning frenzy - but I don't play nearly as much as you, I expect, but they do come up nicely afterwards.
I don't play as much as I used to so they don't get too grungy anymore. I have an old bottle of Martin polish I use on the body/back of the neck whenever I change strings. I tend to change strings one at a time so it's not as easy to get at the fretboards.
People want something for nothing, they want it right now. Either they can't tell quality or don't care but feel it is important that everyone agrees with them.
LOL, we need Victory Pete over here with his talcum powder!
I baby oil all my rosewood fretboards every string change. I rarely polish my guitars, though. I occasionally WD40 my bridges and attack them with an old toothbrush, then WD40 them again and quickly soak the shit up with kitchen roll. Seems to keep the gunk under control.
JD01 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:47 am
I think I'll buy some lemon or almond oil for my fretboard.
You should get some of Crimson's oils. They seem to think they reinvented the wheel with that stuff. Try it out.
Could give it a go I suppose if they're not taking the piss with the money. Someone has used almond oil in the past on my acoustic and it smells great.
Plans for making guitars for yourself which you can buy - obviously I short listed a pair of guitars there which I thought would be your favourites but there's plenty of others on the site.
Could give it a go I suppose if they're not taking the piss with the money. Someone has used almond oil in the past on my acoustic and it smells great.
I think the most common fretboard oil is simple lemon oil, which to the best of my knowledge is just mineral oil with a nice lemony smell. It's possibly carcinogenic, but it works good and guitarists will die from a multitude of self-inflicted reasons before their fretboard oil gets to them. Crimson seems to think they've whipped up a non-toxic version of fretboard oil. I'll never buy it but I know you like them and they're more local to you than me, so try it out.
Plans for making guitars for yourself which you can buy - obviously I short listed a pair of guitars there which I thought would be your favourites but there's plenty of others on the site.
If they have a double-cut LP Jr plan I'd consider it. I'm not building any of their PRS/Nickelback wank shit though.
Plans for making guitars for yourself which you can buy - obviously I short listed a pair of guitars there which I thought would be your favourites but there's plenty of others on the site.
If they have a double-cut LP Jr plan I'd consider it. I'm not building any of their PRS/Nickelback wank shit though.
I've found several LP Jr kits already cut out and shit. I'd just need to glue, assemble, and finish. I'd rather go that route since I'm not too handy with woodworking or have the tooling required to actually build a guitar. I can machine and build a 2500hp drag engine, I can machine and square a lifter bore dead nuts straight with less than .0001" clearance, but planers and routers and shit, not my thing.
