the neck on my axe is like totally thrashed bro


anyone familiar with cleaning the old wax residue off the fretboard, and/or what kind of wax i should use to seal and smooth it back up?

dunlop has a great guitar clean/wax kit out now that is awesome!
get it at gc or daddys

id use some sort of fretboard conditioner or linseed oil, apply liberally to the fretboard. give it a few minutes for the gunk to get loose, then use a credit card to (lightly) scrape all the junk that has come loose. when thats all done, wipe down the board with a dry cloth, and reapply the fretboard conditioner. this time do a thorough drying with a dry towel, as to remove any excess oil.

no need for a wax. you dont seal fretboards, just give it a oil every other restring or so.

To clean, first use a plastic razor at a 90 degree angle to crape off grime, and for cleaning I strongly suggest lemon oil. it will do the job better than dunlop cleaner/conditioner.

If you do reoil, use boiled linseed oil or tung oil (tung oil has a natural orange dye, so it will darken the wood).

a little oil goes a long way, and boiled linseed oil is spontaneously combustable, so don't just throw it in the trash.

for best results, tape off your pickups and finish the fretboard with 1000 grit steel wool.

The guy is guitar OCD.
He fuckin knows...

haha.

niccolai said:

good tip with the steel wool.

although i try to stay away from using straight lemon oil, as i find it to dry out the fretboard a little quickly. using one of the many fretboard conditioners available on the market (particularly dr stringfellows 'lem-oil'), has a less concentrated amount of lemon oil, and allows the fretboard to not dry out as quickly.

guitar string lube is also good....

I should have mentioned that:

conventional lemon oil that you might find in a home depot or furnature store is a very strong concentration and can sometimes have strongly concentrated alchohol which will dry the fretboard and can cause hairline cracks, so you should use a lemon oil specifically formulated for a guitar. string fellows and dunlop work fine.

buy a new guitar

hey thanks for the tips guys

im pretty sure i can get the stuff i need at home depot or sears, i also got those new strings that apparently never rust... they got a coating in the strings or some shit...which is very cool cause my setup is in a basement.

thanks again doods

Animal_Magnetism said:

never leave your guitar in a basement. EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER.

guitars need to be kept between 50-65 degrees with a hygromatic humitidy level between 35-50.

Otherwise, say hello to your newly warped neck, rusted strings, rusted hardware, and hairline cracks in your guitar.

Any steel string shouldn't rust. Blue steel and elixurs are common, but you shouldn't use a pack of strings long enough for them to even develope rust.


You can get plastic ravors(or use a credit card like blue said) and steel wool at homedepot or sears, but as mentioned, don't buy lemon oil there.

Also, after practices, take your head upstairs with your guitar. it doesn't do metal components any good to be sitting in a basement.


I would advise to take your cab up too, but I realize that will probably be annoying carrying up and down ever practice.