What’s your favorite guitar cleaning/conditioning products?

[shredi knight]

You're supposed to clean them?

 

[GreatRedDragon]

I use Dunlop's System 65 shit, always have.

 

[OnePingOnly]

Fret Doctor (for rosewood fretboards). I stopped using any petroleum distillate-based products (like "Lemon Oil") years ago, and Fret Doctor works amazingly well without the risk of over-saturating the wood. The wood will only absorb what it needs. It was originally formulated for woodwind instruments to keep the woods from cracking.

Many years ago I'd purchased a LesPaul Special that came from the factory as a great player, but with butt ugly fretboard wood- almost greenish in hue. This was a TV Yellow guitar, btw. The wood was dry. Anyways, I purchased it, took it home & removed the strings and treated it with Fret Doctor. It took two applications, but that guitar when I was done looked like it had a completely different piece of fretboard wood. And it played phenomenally well.

 

[Wetordry]

Dunlop 65 and sometimes lemon oil on fretboard.
Not opposed to old school Turtle wax but its rare I make the effort these days. Pledge if something funky spills/dries on one.
Cloth diapers or microfiber towels.

 

[sahlomonic]

So the yang to the yin - what should you avoid using?

Also, what do you guys use as a rust or oxidation preventative/mitigation for your hardware?

 

[sandman]

So the yang to the yin - what should you avoid using?

Also, what do you guys use as a rust or oxidation preventative/mitigation for your hardware?

I’m interested in this also. Hope to see some answers

 

[7704A]

Music Nomad String Fuel.

Also, what do you guys use as a rust or oxidation preventative/mitigation for your hardware?

For a while I just used bullfrog rust hunter as my string cleaner, and by proxy the hardware too.

 

[OnePingOnly]

For me, I avoid any petroleum distillate-based products for the fretboard entirely as I indicated above.

For hardware, I'm looking at something to try from the automotive industry and see how it fares on guitar hardware. I may (or may NOT) be onto something and if it works I'll give y'all a heads-up. I've no reason to think it won't. Will advise when I start the experiment. Date unknown as of yet.

 

[napalmdeath]

Music Nomad String Fuel.

For a while I just used bullfrog rust hunter as my string cleaner, and by proxy the hardware too.

For tarnish/patina, Flitz metal polish is the shitz..

 

[7704A]

For tarnish/patina, Flitz metal polish is the shitz..

Oooh, yeah. I think that got used for pinewood derby car axles when I was younger.

 

[Maguchi]

StewMac has some pretty good stuff. Wait til their annual free shipping promo though. The shipping will kill ya. With all these products a little dab on a rag will do. You don't want to saturate the wood.

 

[Subclavian2]

I’m slowly switching from Dunlop to Music nomad.