- Thread starter mikeyg
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hey mikeyg
ive heard people say once a year
twice a year
lots of things
personally i do it everytime i change strings
mind you i only change strings every 1-2 months
so i would reccomend that
oil it before you change to
just so your new strings are nice and new
ive heard people say once a year
twice a year
lots of things
personally i do it everytime i change strings
mind you i only change strings every 1-2 months
so i would reccomend that
oil it before you change to
just so your new strings are nice and new
Raz
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If you wash your hands EVERYTIME before you play, and wipe the strings and fretboard down, (not too mention keeping it in the case while not playing) then once a year is plenty. It's more or less based on whether or not the fretboard requires the oil or not. Think about the extremes...would you want your fretboard saturated with oil?
beej
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Clean it when it's dirty. (If you have a build up of gunk, etc.) Otherwise, just apply a bit of lemon oil when the board looks particularly dry.
Raz
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Thanks for the summarybeej said:
CodeMonkey
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*smacks forehead* Lemon OIL, no wonder my frets are so sticky.
darchirnoj
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I'm not sure about the lemon oil.
I, myself, have used lemon oil on my rosewood and ebony boards. I was talking to Mr. Dean Campbell (owner of Campbell American Guitars) yesterday and when I mentioned using lemon oil on my boards, he freaked. He said he would not suggest the lemon oil, but rather recemmended something he offers on his site (although he does not make it) called Jam Juice. I might give it a try. I noticed that lemon oil on my rosewood does a good job, but on my ebony, I'm not sure it does much of anything.
-darchirnoj
I, myself, have used lemon oil on my rosewood and ebony boards. I was talking to Mr. Dean Campbell (owner of Campbell American Guitars) yesterday and when I mentioned using lemon oil on my boards, he freaked. He said he would not suggest the lemon oil, but rather recemmended something he offers on his site (although he does not make it) called Jam Juice. I might give it a try. I noticed that lemon oil on my rosewood does a good job, but on my ebony, I'm not sure it does much of anything.
-darchirnoj
Tim O'Sullivan
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I have never used it on my guitars, and I would not describe any of them as dry.
Tim O'Sullivan
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Well I probably meant fingerboard!
I only use lemon oil to clean, and then only when the neck is so dirty and sticky as to actually slow me down.
I actually like the look of a dirty neck, it looks well loved, but at a certain point it gets too sticky to play comfortably.
I actually like the look of a dirty neck, it looks well loved, but at a certain point it gets too sticky to play comfortably.
puppyonacid
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Erm, I wouldnt use lemon oil. On my ebony fretboard on my N4 (my JP hasnt arrived yet! Sorry!), I use the finest grade wire wool and boiled linseed oil. Put the oil on with ur fingers then rub along the grain with the wire wool. Im not sure wether you'd wanna do this on maple fretboards, but on hardwoods it really brings out the grain and the wood looks so healthy afterwards. And linseed oil actually preserves the wood I think. Anyhoo, ask a guitar tech, but I wouldn't use lemon oil. Lemons have citric acid. So that might not be good for wood. That's if they use real lemons when they make lemon oil mind. It could be called that cos it smells lemony. You know, like how the bacon bits you get at the salad bar at Pizza Hut aren't made out of actual bacon. Ermmm, I'm going off topic now aren't I?
puppyonacid
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I stand corrected.
beej
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There's not really a lot of lemon in the availble lemon oils. So it's not as bad as it sounds. Else I'd be using it in mixed drinks when I get desperate
