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Okay, so this is nothing like Sully's handy topic, but hey, I need some questions answered. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
Tonight was the first time I ever cleaned and oiled a fretboard. Started with the ebony board on my Soloist since the finger dirt residue crap tends to be more prominent on this ebony board than on my other guitars' rosewood boards.
Blocked the Floyd using a white plastic eraser, unlocked the locknut, loosened the tuners, took the strings off at the Floyd, and proceeded to work the fretboard using Weiman lemon oil on a new toothbrush. I let the oil sit on each fret space perhaps a minute or two, ooooh-ing and ahhhhh-ing at how slick the board looked, the wiped the fret spaces with a clean dishcloth. The board looks great and feels slick, and the frets themselves are shiny and smooth, but then I looked at the dishcloth and saw that it was BLACK where I had wiped the board with.
Now, the questions.
1.) Is that ebony dye coming off the board? [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]
2.) Can you directly lemon oil the frets themselves?
3.) Not really a question, but it was damn near impossible to avoid lemon-brushing the friggin' MOP sharkfins, so I just went over them gently with the toothbrush. Seemed to have made 'em a little sparklier, if anything. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Hopefully I'm not grinding away at the inlays.
Then I strung 'er up, let it sit to dry for a while, then tucked her in back to sleep. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
The ebonizing project thread is coming soon, so stay tuned, boys and girls! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Expect a huge topic with detailed instructions and pictures. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Tonight was the first time I ever cleaned and oiled a fretboard. Started with the ebony board on my Soloist since the finger dirt residue crap tends to be more prominent on this ebony board than on my other guitars' rosewood boards.
Blocked the Floyd using a white plastic eraser, unlocked the locknut, loosened the tuners, took the strings off at the Floyd, and proceeded to work the fretboard using Weiman lemon oil on a new toothbrush. I let the oil sit on each fret space perhaps a minute or two, ooooh-ing and ahhhhh-ing at how slick the board looked, the wiped the fret spaces with a clean dishcloth. The board looks great and feels slick, and the frets themselves are shiny and smooth, but then I looked at the dishcloth and saw that it was BLACK where I had wiped the board with.
Now, the questions.
1.) Is that ebony dye coming off the board? [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img]
2.) Can you directly lemon oil the frets themselves?
3.) Not really a question, but it was damn near impossible to avoid lemon-brushing the friggin' MOP sharkfins, so I just went over them gently with the toothbrush. Seemed to have made 'em a little sparklier, if anything. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Hopefully I'm not grinding away at the inlays.
Then I strung 'er up, let it sit to dry for a while, then tucked her in back to sleep. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
The ebonizing project thread is coming soon, so stay tuned, boys and girls! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Expect a huge topic with detailed instructions and pictures. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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