firsttime fretboard cleaning

[Spivonious]

So I cleaned up the fretboard on my Predator last night.

I didn't have any lemon oil/bore oil/guitar fretboard cleaner, and it was too late to go to the store and get some, so I improvised! I figured if I ruined the neck then I have an excuse to order that custom Carvin I'm gassing for

First I tried using Windex All-Purpose cleaner. It has vinegar in it. This didn't really do anything except help loosen the finger junk. Next I tried Pledge. Holy crap, never use this on a fretboard! It dried it out in roughly five seconds and didn't clean a thing. Next I got out our other cleaner. It's made from "natural ingredients" and has sage and citrus in it. Using that and a toothbrush I was able to get the board pretty clean, but it was still really dry looking. So I went down and got some good old vegetable oil from the kitchen and rubbed that on with a paper towel. Let it sit about 5 minutes, wiped off the excess and the neck looks better than ever!

[toejam]

Bad idea to use vegetable-based oil on your fingerboard... it'll rot the wood!

Use any kind of mineral oil... Vaseline, motor oil, baby oil, etc.

[emperor_black]

all of a sudden, we are all cleaning our fretboards, are we? this is like the 5th thread about cleaning in the past couple of weeks.

[shobet]

I'm not, mine are covers in fwoppjuice

[Spivonious]

all of a sudden, we are all cleaning our fretboards, are we? this is like the 5th thread about cleaning in the past couple of weeks.

Yeah I read all those threads and it got me into action.

Bad idea to use vegetable-based oil on your fingerboard... it'll rot the wood!

Explain?

[kelly user]

organic material promotes bacteria growth......... bacteria starts growing then it is all down hill from there.

[Bengal65]

Oh no Your going to be growing a garden in that fretboard!

[Jason slsh]

Yeah, look at my dkm2-sl2h-kv3-rr1-asdf. Its screwed.

[emperor_black]

maybe you can grow real "vine" inlays on your fretboard....just like the JEM's

[kelly user]

wow, the inlay quality on the jems suck major ass.

[Axewielder]

I've read that "food grade mineral oil" is ideal for use on a ebony fretboard (somebody chime in if I am mistaken). I guess if it won't fuck up your stomach, it won't fuck up your fretboard, either.

[Robert Burns]

wow, the inlay quality on the jems suck major ass.

Thats not "missing filling in the blue"... they miss on purpose to give it
some 3D effect.

[Nazgul]

Thats not "missing filling in the blue"... they miss on purpose to give it
some 3D effect.

Well, they failed .

[Bengal65]

maybe you can grow real "vine" inlays on your fretboard....just like the JEM's

Wow, I have never seen that up close. Doesn't look good IMO.

[kelly user]

Thats not "missing filling in the blue"... they miss on purpose to give it
some 3D effect.

i wouldn't care about the effect visually, i would care on how finger grime can collect in there.