What Do You Use To Clean Your Bass

[Phalex]

Originally Posted by klejst

Clean my bass?! I have never done such a thing....



However perhaps Windex...it cleans and can be used for just about everything right? (according to the dad in My Big Fat Greek Wedding)

Actually, I've heard for wetsanding it's the schiznit.

[scottfeldstein]

I asume one has to care for a painted guitar differently than a natural finish. But .. how?

[Flabass]

Originally Posted by PazzoBasso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4eapzZePrM

Too funny!

[alembicbones]

I've used Alembic Supreme Polish for years now. Seems to work very well.

Bones

[D.M.N.]

I use my own special blend of blood, sweat and tequila.


No, but in all seriousness, on the rare occasions that I do actually clean my bass, I use a Fender/Meguiar's. Use the swirl & haze stuff first, and then the finish polish, putting it on the sponge to rub in, and then using an old cotton shirt to wipre it off.

[Immigrant]

Originally Posted by scottfeldstein

I asume one has to care for a painted guitar differently than a natural finish. But .. how?

I'll try.

I use Dunlop 65 on painted and poly finishes, some car wax works. I wouldn't use car wax on a Peavey Grind I once owned, because the wood, although smooth, had pores and grain that would've grabbed the wax and it would've stayed there. There was a thread not too long ago about a Fender Select J Bass that came brand new with what was believed to be polishing compound in the grain of the fretboard. A nice, dark fretboard with white specks all over it.

I use Howard's Feed and Wax on the neck and fretboard of my FBB, but the builder warned me to not get it on the poly body finish because it could cause damage. He even suggested I tape it off.

Some stuff is harmful to some finishes, and some stuff probably just doesn't work.

Just guessing.

[Rob Martinez]

Windex. Yes. Windex.

It gets the grime off and cleans. Which is all it's supposed to do.

I want to clean my basses, not wax them!

[wolfmancharlie]

I use lemon oil for my rosewood fretboards, and Turtle wax ICE for all Painted surfaces. I use lemon oil for the oil finishes like on my Tobias Growler. For my sunburst's and instruments with stained finishes instead of paint I use Old English Polish.and I only use microfiber cloths to put on or take off.

[Oracle]

Windex for fretboard, virtuoso for my RW, Dunlop 65 for poly

[arsie]

Originally Posted by DiabolusInMusic

If it is really dirty I have had lots of luck with Ernie Ball Wonder Wipes, I took a lot of gunk off my Stingray with them. Other than I usually use some Dunlop #49 or whatever it is called, maybe some lemon on the fretboard, depends on the fretboard.

When you say gunk, you mean the gunk on the maple fingerboard of a Stingray? If so, I'll have a go at it.

[Marko5657]

I’m Greek, but I never heard of the windex-for-everything growing up. In any case I use… windex.

And sometime those Clorox wipes (don’t contain bleach) cause I tend to have them around.

[bluewine]

Thanks for all the help guys.

Blue

[scottfeldstein]

Originally Posted by wolfmancharlie

I use lemon oil for the oil finishes like on my Tobias Growler. For my sunburst's and instruments with stained finishes instead of paint I use Old English Polish

Maybe I should use one of these on the Ibanez SR505?

[Mykk]

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[scottfeldstein]

For reals. You would clean a natural finish piece of mahogany with dishwashing liquid.

[Templar]

Windex for cleaning.

Lizard Spit polish.

Lizard Spit fretboard oil.

[Green1]

Originally Posted by mjac28

I use music nomad "one" it cleans and polishes works great.

I use this as well, far and away the best polish I have ever used

[Stilettoprefer]

If my basses get dirty enough to gross me out (last time it was blood all over the front from a split finger) I use water on a paper towel.

If I need to shine one up for a classy show, I use some Dunlop 65 polish with a clean rag.

[EvilJekyll]

Depends on how dirty it is.

Usually Dr. Duck's Axe Wax as an all around cleaner.

Fretboard wipes if it's been a while for the fretboard.

Gorgomyte for the holy crap what happened to that fretboard gunk.

Steel wool for those fairly oxidized metal pieces.

Edit: Also, Meguires Cleaner Wax for after cleaning the metal pieces.

[autodidact]

Bleach and an abrasive metal scrubby.