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Roscoe Club

#721
Got my new Roscoe today!! It is amazing!!! Plays fantastic!!

I think I need a new strap though because I'm getting slight neck dive. Very slight.

Going to throw a fresh set of strings on her tomorrow.

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Is it silly that I want a ramp mainly because I think they look cool? ;)
 
#726
Ok, in with a 'new to me' Century Standard Plus 6 :)

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So what do you guys clean your instruments with, if it doesn't have the thick poly finish? I'd like to get some of the fingerprints and such off mine without messing it up with polishes that will just cloud it up worse.
 
#727
jim777 said:
Ok, in with a 'new to me' Century Standard Plus 6 :)

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So what do you guys clean your instruments with, if it doesn't have the thick poly finish? I'd like to get some of the fingerprints and such off mine without messing it up with polishes that will just cloud it up worse.
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Nice bass Jim!

This may sound strange but try Windex. It works great on the satin finishes.
 
#729
It's a chemically cured finish, you won't hurt it. Don't soak it is all, maybe spray whatever onto a cloth and rub with the cloth. Then rub it again with a dry cloth.

I use wax on my Roscoe's oil finish. It's not necessary to replenish anything (like, say, on a Warwick which has a true oil finish), but it can make the oil look glow quite nicely.
 
#730
jim777 said:
Really? OK, sounds...good LOL. Will try it tomorrow, thanks :)
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Believe it or not Joe Zon recommends cleaning his satin finishes with Windex so I figured that it would work well with the Roscoe satin finishes. I would think that they are similar but Gard can confirm that.

I, like Greg, vary using a Mylands wax or oil on my oil finished LG but the Windex cleans the satin finish of the Zon quite well (and leaves no messy streaks). Zon says using Windex also prevents the build up of various chemicals on the finish. Go figure.

He also recommends using a drop of WD-40 to clean the Phenolwood fingerboards which is pretty much the same as Roscoe's Diamondwood used on fretless basses.
 
#733
I use Weinberg's Bore oil on all of my unsealed fretboards when they look like they need it. My tech turned me on to it, and he apprenticed at Fodera before spending 12 years at Roger Sadowsky's shop. It's what clarinetists use on their ebony instruments, and what they've been using on ebony since before there were electric stringed instruments. I'm sure there are lots of good products out there though, but bore oil is what I use.

I do remember getting a pamphlet from Martin Guitars once that cautioned against lemon oil. Martin said it could eat through a nitro finish over time if the lemon oil and nitro came into contact with each other, so while lots of guys use lemon oil I personally avoid it like the plague.
 

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