Keeping Your Neck Clean and Fast!

[herndonbassist]

uhm... Petroleum oils are organic... When talking about anything outside the food industry, organic means that the substance contains carbon. Petroleum is an amalgum of complex carbon-based molecules. Refinement separates and changes these molecules into the multitude of organic products we use today (plastics, finishes, fuels, food addtitives, etc. etc. so on and so forth)

I can see not using a vegetable or animal-based oil, since they can and do become rancid... since the wood of your neck is ALSO vegetable-based (being wood), rotting oil could possibly rot your neck. I still wouldn't trust motor oil on my neck *L* I'll stick to something made by a guitar manufacturer

You are correct in your very patronizing definition of organic, with all the beer that I drank in college, I actually remembered that. I was simply referring to edible or food based oils that would become rancid over time. I was lifting the thoughts from the articles, and thought that I did a good job of narrowing the focus, but thanks for straightening me out.

 

[bassman314]

You are correct in your very patronizing definition of organic, with all the beer that I drank in college, I actually remembered that. I was simply referring to edible or food based oils that would become rancid over time. I was lifting the thoughts from the articles, and thought that I did a good job of narrowing the focus, but thanks for straightening me out.

oh, My apologies. I didn't mean to sound patronizing..

 

[NJL]

I find that keeping my neck clean starts before I even touch my bass. I wash my hands with soap, and dry them really well before I even pick it up. My family teases me that I "scrub in" like a surgeon to get ready to play my bass.

-Mike

+1

i do this especially after a load in...

 

[JoeyZ]

I use Fast Fret to keep my strings new sounding and it has done it's job quite nicely! It cleans off the sweaty gunk i leave on my strings....OHH, and i don't wipe down the back of my basses neck..I leave the sweat and the blood on there as a reminder!!



ok, maybe not blood.

 

[JimmyM]

A reminder of what???

 

[43apples]

A reminder of what???

Of his lack of hand hygiene