What are you using to clean and treat your fretboards?

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Wanted to know what other RT members use to clean their fretboard and frets.

Anybody using a murphy's oil soap and water solution to clean the board before conditioning?
Anyone polish their frets regularly? If so, what are you using?

Thanks
 
0000 steel wool to clean the fretboard and polish the frets. Fretboard sealer from Stew Mac maybe once a year. :thumbsup:
 
0000 Steel wool and Guitar Honey. Best I have ever used and I have literally tried them all.
 
Fret Doctor(Bore Oil) and Gorgomyte first to clean the frets.
 
Old English lemon oil... Frets need next to nothing, a good plectrum scrape on the inside edges, done.
 
Didn't I have a thread about this not long ago?

No, sereously, I just use lemon oil on the board. I clean it with alcohol if it's bad. The frets I use Blue Magic metal polish. It works wonders. I used to use OOOO steel wool, but it wears your frets down quicker. Metal polish works great, and leaves a protective coating on the frets.
 
0000 steel wool here as well, and orange oil pledge in the plastic bottle. That stuff is so good! Love what it does for my guitars.
 
Using anything with citrus will eat the adhesive that holds your frets in over time.
 
steel wool the fretboard every once in awhile, maybe every 5th string change or so or when it looks dirty. Lemon oil sparingly after steel wooling. Other than that I don't put anything on it. I went to a Taylor guitar clinic and this is what they recommended doing when you change strings, use the lemon oil sparingly and not real often also.
 
I use just a pinch of dish soap in warm water and a soft toothbrush to clean the board, steel wool for frets, and bore oil for conditioning.
 
killertone":3i2y942o said:
0000 Steel wool and Guitar Honey. Best I have ever used and I have literally tried them all.
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+1 on this same combo.
 
For the real fast feel. :lol: :LOL:
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The BEST thing you can use on Rosewood is pure mineral oil. It's the main ingredient in all of the other fretboard cleaners. You can get a whole bottle of it dirt cheap at CVS. Just apply to a cloth that won't shed, wax on, wax off.

Ron Kirn is an expert guitar builder on Strat-Talk and he's a firm advocate of it as well.
 
Nothing. Never needed to. I wipe the strings down after playing.
 
Blue Magic metal polish cleaner from my assortment of car care products in the garage. Use it with a polishing wheel on a Dremel. Serious shine when done.
 
Jimmy R":1xjtv8ot said:
The BEST thing you can use on Rosewood is pure mineral oil. It's the main ingredient in all of the other fretboard cleaners. You can get a whole bottle of it dirt cheap at CVS. Just apply to a cloth that won't shed, wax on, wax off.

Ron Kirn is an expert guitar builder on Strat-Talk and he's a firm advocate of it as well.
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There are a lot of experts, and they don't all agree.

Just shows that there really isn't concensus on what is "best"... but there is a variety of oils that all work very well.

And for the record, mineral oil is not the main ingredient of ALL fretboard cleaners. It isn't for Fret Doctor, anyway. There are people who say mineral oil is the best treatment for leather as well, and it absolutely is not. Infact it is bad for it in the long run.
 
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