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bass cleaning
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I remeber using mirror glaze machine glaze (car oily polish) on my rosewod fretboard not recommends it, it dont make nothing wrong tothe fretboard but I only use one time and works but maybe using it a lot is bad.
I like the products from music nomad.....they have a cleaner/polish that's the best I've ever tried
Thanks a lot! And what about sanded maple fretboard? Should I cover it with laquer or wiping\oiling is enogh?
I personally do not recommend anything along the lines of lighter fluid or oils for cleaning your bass. Oils can be beneficial when combined properly with other elements to create waxes or pastes, but a pure oil will introduce unwanted moisture to your instrument. Wood is porous. It's important to maintain the natural moisture of the wood and not allow it to dry out, but you want to prevent any moisture from getting in that doesn't belong there.
When I played upright in college, my fingerboard got so caked up with grime from where I was plucking the strings that I could scrape it off with a butter knife.
I could have put the shavings on pasta and told someone to try some great black truffles.
I could have put the shavings on pasta and told someone to try some great black truffles.
I often use mild furniture polish and a polishing rag on the body. Being that my fretboards are all rosewood, I generally do a cleaning with olive oil.
Dunlop 65 on poly/painted parts.
Howard's Feed and Wax on oil finishes. That stuff is the best. Cleans, nourishes, and protects.
The Zymol kit piques my interest though.
Howard's Feed and Wax on oil finishes. That stuff is the best. Cleans, nourishes, and protects.
The Zymol kit piques my interest though.
You can clean a bass???
Lol yeah, i just let it get a dirty and dinged up as possible....Lol pretty sure jamerson said "the dirt keeps the funk"
I NEVER use car oriented products (polishes or wax) on vintage instruments or ANY nitro finish. That's a disaster you just decided a location for.
However, poly finishes are damned-near indestructable and I've used Maguire's or Mother's car care products (good stuff that I actually use on my cars) to great effect and with NO harmful side effects.
Absolutely NONE of that stuff should EVER go on a rosewood 'board...period. Besides the fact you'd be rubbing permanent white streaks into the 'board, those chemicals severely dry the oils in the wood (check your hands after you polish your car sometime).
Used lemon oil for years, but there IS a really good rosewood 'board cleaner/polish/oil that actually puts vital oils back into the wood (yes, it's specifically for guitars & basses), but I forget who makes it (one of our guitar players "borrowed" mine). Doesn't put a shiny gloss on the fingerboard, just a nice, healthy, natural luster. Got it at GC, so it should be readily available everywhere.
However, poly finishes are damned-near indestructable and I've used Maguire's or Mother's car care products (good stuff that I actually use on my cars) to great effect and with NO harmful side effects.
Absolutely NONE of that stuff should EVER go on a rosewood 'board...period. Besides the fact you'd be rubbing permanent white streaks into the 'board, those chemicals severely dry the oils in the wood (check your hands after you polish your car sometime).
Used lemon oil for years, but there IS a really good rosewood 'board cleaner/polish/oil that actually puts vital oils back into the wood (yes, it's specifically for guitars & basses), but I forget who makes it (one of our guitar players "borrowed" mine). Doesn't put a shiny gloss on the fingerboard, just a nice, healthy, natural luster. Got it at GC, so it should be readily available everywhere.
