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Post subject: Doubt about finished/unfinished fretboard... :(%$??
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:41 am
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Hi there. I need to clean my rosewood tele fretboard :?: I started to search for a good cleaning product that does this and that (clean up and shine the body and fretboard).

I saw some fender products but I don't know what to use for my guitar 'cause I've read something about finished and unfinished woods...

Now I need some advice here... :)

It's a 2002 tele 3 color sunburst.
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:56 pm
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I have only used furniture polish like lemon pledge on Rosewood necks. I did every time I changed Strings. I have mostly Maple Fretboards though and those I just keep clean using a good polishing cloth and a little guitar polish


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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:51 pm
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idahored wrote:
I have only used furniture polish like lemon pledge on Rosewood necks. I did every time I changed Strings. I have mostly Maple Fretboards though and those I just keep clean using a good polishing cloth and a little guitar polish


I was told that pledge and such leave a greasy residue because they are wax based. I found this stuff at my local guitar shop.

"Planet waves "Shine" spray cleaner & maintenance instrument cleaner [step 3] "

its not expensive, it takes the fingerprints off its great in my opiniion. I used to use pledge. I think this feels better to me. IMHO.

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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:30 am
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Thanks. But do you know if a rosewood fretboard is a unfinished piece of wood? and what does it means 'cause I've heard that maple is finished and you can use the general kind of cleaning products...

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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:28 am
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bytewax wrote:
Thanks. But do you know if a rosewood fretboard is a unfinished piece of wood? and what does it means 'cause I've heard that maple is finished and you can use the general kind of cleaning products...


ah sorry i realize i didnt answer your question. I was told that it is all finished (the rosewood fretboard) and a general cleaning product wont harm it, but there are better things to use.

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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:32 am
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Most rosewood fingerboards are unfinished. Rickenbacker is the only company I can think of that puts a finish on rosewood boards.

Here is some info about woods used as guitar fingerboards:

http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Necks/NeckWoods.aspx

What I do for my rosewood fingerboard guitars and basses every few string changes is use 0000-grit steel wool - that's four zeros.

I do this outside so the little shards of steel wool fall on the ground instead of on my carpet. Also remember that pickups are magnets and will catch all those little bits of steel wool if you don't tape over them. Rather than tape over each pickup, I take a sheet of paper - sometimes a full page of a newspaper, depending on the instrument - and cover the pickups, soundhole, bridge, knobs, etc.

I stand outside with the neck of the guitar pointing down at the ground and lightly wipe or scrub the 0000 steel wool pad along the length of the neck in the same directions as the strings run - not side-to-side.

This will polish your frets to a mirror-like shine and clean any funky stuff off the board too. I then finish with a light spray and wipe with Pledge or whatever dusting spray we have in the house. I've been doing this to some rosewood necks for 20 years now and they look great. Some say not to use Pledge but I've never had any trouble with it.

Do not use steel wool on a finished maple fingerboard!


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