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09-03-2005, 06:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Fingerboard treatment...
I'm wondering if it's acceptable to use a product such as Guitar Honey on the fingerboard of my Shen upright. I typically use this stuff on my electric every few months when it becomes clear that the wood could benefit from it, and it seems like the concept would apply to the upright as well...is there something better out there for URB fingerboards?
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09-03-2005, 06:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | | To clean my fingerboard, I always use a rag and 99% rubbing alcohol. |
09-03-2005, 09:50 PM
| | AES Fine Instruments | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Brewster, NY, USA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by PaulCannon To clean my fingerboard, I always use a rag and 99% rubbing alcohol. | I sure hope you oil it after that... |
09-03-2005, 09:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Chicago, IL | | | All I've ever had to do is scrape dead skin off the board. For that I usually take the strings off one at a time and lightly go over that area with 0000 steel wool (the really fine stuff).
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09-03-2005, 10:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by arnoldschnitzer I sure hope you oil it after that... | The fingerboard? Never have. |
09-04-2005, 12:57 PM
| | Supporting Member/Luthier | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio | | | I don't know what Guitar Honey does or is, but Watco Danish Oil (buy it at Home Depot/Lowe's) is an excellent self-drying product that works great and is used in many instrument repair shops. Ebony is a naturally oilly wood, and it's good idea to put on a light coat of Watco after the rubbing alcohol.
0000 Steel Wool will get rid of the dirt, and not the Watco, by the way... |
09-04-2005, 01:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Bend, Oregon | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by arnoldschnitzer I sure hope you oil it after that... | I don't oil my fingerboard either because in my experience oil attracts dirt. Am I missing something? |
09-04-2005, 01:32 PM
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Owner: Ken Smith Basses, Ltd. | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Perkasie, PA USA | |  oil attracts dirt?
Well, maybe so, if you don't wipe it down good. BUT.. "Dryness promotes Cracks in wood".. I'll Lube my FB as needed. I keep a rag in the tailpiece to wipe the Bass as I play. |
09-04-2005, 04:38 PM
| | Supporting Member/Luthier | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio | | | If a fingerboard is over-oiled, it will attract dirt. But if you just wipe on a thin layer and let it dry, it gives the board a smooth, easier-to-clean surface. A little goes a long way. |
09-05-2005, 05:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Seattle, WA | | | thanks
Cool thanks for the replies. I'll try out the guitar honey. |
09-05-2005, 10:51 PM
| | Jeff Bollbach Luthier, Inc. | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: freeport, ny | | | The most important aspect of sealing the board is protection against exuditory elements of the digits. I'm sorry, but not treating the board with something is a mistake. |
09-06-2005, 12:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: San Diego, Calee'forn'knee'a | | | If you wipe down the strings and fingerboard after each use your always clean and oil'ed (finger oil!!).
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