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01-20-2010, 02:43 PM
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quick question:what is a good and safe for cleaning my bass? |
01-20-2010, 03:07 PM
|  | Basement Clef | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | If you're removing funk, try Dunlop 65 guitar polish.
If you want to remove even more, you may need 100 or 60 grit sandpaper. Just remove the parts you don't want sanded before you start.
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01-20-2010, 03:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: central new jersey | | Quote:
Originally Posted by P. Aaron  If you're removing funk, try Dunlop 65 guitar polish.
If you want to remove even more, you may need 100 or 60 grit sandpaper. Just remove the parts you don't want sanded before you start. | whoah.... 60 grit? i think you may mean 600 |
01-20-2010, 03:19 PM
|  | Supporting Member and fetch player | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Colorado, USA | | My approach: A damp soft cloth for most everything. Sticker residue - WD40. Fretboard final cleaning with fretboard oil. After body is reasonably clean, then I'd use polish. 
No way I would use any kind of sandpaper or steel wool for cleaning. Polish is as abrasive as I would get.
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01-20-2010, 03:25 PM
| | | | The Dunlop polish looks good. Thanks. |
01-20-2010, 03:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: U.S.A. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rmessick2 The Dunlop polish looks good. Thanks. | It is excellent.
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01-20-2010, 03:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: melbourne victoria australia | | | ... clean my jazz funk? |
01-20-2010, 03:47 PM
| | | | Believe it or not, I use the new Pledge Multi-Surface Clean & Dust..........I kid you not! It cleans metal, wood and doesn't mess up the electronics............and it doesn't leave steaks and residue on your finish or on any metal parts. It really cleans the gunk off the strings, too.
I use it on my MM StingRay 5. If I didn't trust it, I wouldn't use it.
So laugh at me if you want, but my bass looks awesome, especially when that center stage flood light hits it and the damn thing lights up like the star that it is!!!!!! |
01-20-2010, 03:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: AZ mountains | | | I just run mine down to the carwash.
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01-20-2010, 04:16 PM
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Owner, builder: jworrellbass | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Colorado Springs CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by snyderz I just run mine down to the carwash. | Or a good sandstorm. Cleans it to the bone. |
01-20-2010, 07:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | Virtuoso sells a cleaner and a non-abrasive polish. I like the cleaner a lot, and have used it to take old cigarette funk off a bass. I like the Virtuoso products a lot. http://www.virtuosopolish.com/
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01-20-2010, 08:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Virginia Beach, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by snyderz I just run mine down to the carwash. | Or if you don't have enough quarters... 
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01-21-2010, 01:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Portland, OR | | | Naptha, or lighter fluid, is a great cleaner and is available at 7-11 as Ronsonol in a yellow bottle. It is safe on poly and nitro finishes and dissolves gunk like nothing. I like Meguiars Scrarch-X to buff out scratches on the body and bring back shine. Finish with a good paste wax. I have yet to use anything that rivals this formula, but I have seen amazingly similar results from the Virtuoso line on a few nitro finished Les Pauls... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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