Patchouli oil for fretboards?

[Vinny_G]

I use baby oil. I do it myself with a fruit press.

 

[somebrains]

Everyone who knows the recipe to dirty hippie stench should be sacrificed in a volcano.
It should be reclassified as a substance more harmful to society than crack cocaine.
Possession should be 4 strikes.
Servers housing the recipe should be EMPd.
All books mentioning it should be banned.

 

[Marc DLarosa]

Ahhh. "Eau de Hippie" hehe

I've heard of strings going dead. But smelly, and DREAD?

 

[Marc DLarosa]

Is soap, and shampoo getting as difficult to come by, as toilet paper?

 

[jamro217]

It would probably work best on an Alembic.

 

[HG1180]

And he bases this on?
Not saying he's wrong, but...

Well he said he’s tried it but I figured I might should ask an established community of players before I go conditioning anything with any kind of oil

 

[2F/2F]

I love the smell of patchouli, though I don't wear it, or any scent, myself.

However, the amount of it needed to oil a fretboard would NOT be subtle in the slightest. People would HATE you. No joke. People hate that stuff...and breathing it can also cause allergic reactions with some people.

But the main point I wanted to make is that "patchouli oil" as we know it is largely just a carrier oil – basically one of many forms of vegetable oils – with relatively low amounts of patchouli essential oil. The only thing you'd really be doing would be putting [highly] scented vegetable oil of some sort on your fretboard. I wouldn't imagine that it'd be any more beneficial than applying just the carrier oil, without any essential oil mixed in.

 

[210superair]

 

[-Asdfgh-]

A longtime friend of mine recently told me that, Patchouli, of all oils, is an excellent fretboard conditioner. Now I love the smell of the stuff, and it makes my skin mighty soft but, on a fretboard?

Does anyone know if this is accurate?

Are you in Kula Shaker? Yes? Use patchouli oil. No? Use lemon oil or something else.

 

[JBassDeluxe]

An old friend of mine, gone a few years now was a remarkable string and fret tech as well as luthier. He warned me to be careful what I purchased when shopping for fretboard oil.

Many of the slightly lower priced (as compared to the real deal), labeled as lemon oil and orange oil products are nothing more than mineral oil that has wee bit of either of the genuine citrus oils in the bottle. The reason for even bothering with the relatively minuscule amount of added, citrus-sourced oil is to allow the primarily mineral oil containing product to be passed off as the genuine article.

 

[Hundred proof]

In the past I’ve used clarinet bore oil with good results ... doesn’t take much

 

[MNAirHead]

I just about puked reading the title

Smells like dead people and stoned hippies

 

[Pops OB]

Back when I was a long-haired, but clean, hippie... I thought it smelled like dirty old hippies. Couldn’t stand the stench.

I don’t want my bass to be smelling like a dirty old hippie, thank you. I’d have to divorce it.

 

[HG1180]

Back when I was a long-haired, but clean, hippie... I thought it smelled like dirty old hippies. Couldn’t stand the stench.

I’d have to divorce it.

 

[monkeyfinger]

Pure lemon oil is really bad for fretboards. Most lemon oil products contain little of no lemon oil. They are lemon scented and dyed yellow. If you are going to oil your fretboard, use a fine grade mineral oil such as bore oil. It's the stuff used on clarinets. You can get it in a woodwind shop.

 

[74hc]

So I did some web searching on what this oil is and found this:

"Our Patchouli, Dark is steam distilled and has the depth and richness expected from aged Patchouli. Our Patchouli, Light is much like Patchouli, Dark, but with lighter notes and color, and we offer an Organic Patchouli from Sri Lanka as well"

So I guess using their Dark oil would give your bass a vintage, warm style sound full of depth and richness coveted by those that pay vintage prices.

If you want modern-voice, light notes without putting on some Super Brights, you would get their Light oil.

And finally, if you want your bass to sound like a Rabana, you would put on their organic Sri Lankan oil.

 

[FugaziBomb]

An old friend of mine, gone a few years now was a remarkable string and fret tech as well as luthier. He warned me to be careful what I purchased when shopping for fretboard oil.

Many of the slightly lower priced (as compared to the real deal), labeled as lemon oil and orange oil products are nothing more than mineral oil that has wee bit of either of the genuine citrus oils in the bottle. The reason for even bothering with the relatively minuscule amount of added, citrus-sourced oil is to allow the primarily mineral oil containing product to be passed off as the genuine article.

Lemon oil IS mineral oil. It's not really oil from lemons...

 

[Kukulkan61]

Really????

 

[bassinplace]

No. When the quarantine ends, you’re going to regret that choice.

 

[Ross W. Lovell]

A longtime friend of mine recently told me that, Patchouli, of all oils, is an excellent fretboard conditioner. Now I love the smell of the stuff, and it makes my skin mighty soft but, on a fretboard?

Does anyone know if this is accurate?

Yuuuughhh!

My olfactory senses feel bludgeoned around this stuff.

Made any excursion to see the Dead hard, especially if the band had one of their "off nights"