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If you've taken the strings off of your guitar it's a great opportunity to clean up the fretboard.
Now you may have found that if you've been playing for a few months that just some dirt
will have accumulated, that's just dead skin from your fingers and it's come off on the
strings as well, it's sweat. And so you get some icky gunk on there that basically needs
to come off. Now this guitar has a rosewood fingerboard and that needs a particular kind
of treatment. We're going to use lemon oil. Now that will help remove the dirt and it
will also restore the wood to a really nice shine that's great to play on and it just
looks great too. Ok. If your guitar doesn't have a rosewood fingerboard it can just take
an ordinary clean. Just take a regular cloth and a regular guitar polish and just a quick
wipe over will suffice. Ok it's just that rosewood is bare wood and requires the oil
finish. So here we go, I'll show you how to do this. Now this, this bottle has its own
applicator, so rather than pouring it onto a cloth or anything you can literally just
wipe along. But if you just have a loose bottle you can just place onto a cloth and apply
like so. We'll be doing it like this. So just give it a squeeze...and that's enough. Now
you can actually wait a while before you start cleaning so that gives you a good opportunity
to go right the way along the fretboard and apply it to all of them. Ok so we've done
a small area here. We'll let that settle in and let it sink in for a couple of minutes
and then we can start giving it a clean. Like so. I say we'll come back and do this properly
and spend a bit more time on it, but just to show you, it's very simple. Now you can
see that this has come to a really nice shine. It probably won't stay quite so shiny by the
time it's all dried off but it's certainly an improvement and it will feel nice to play
as well. Personally I tend to go over the frets, the actual frets themselves as well.
Just a good opportunity to get any gunk that's right on the, right on the edge of the fret,
you just clean the whole thing off that way. So once you've finished the fretboard while
you've got the strings off it's a good opportunity to give these parts of the body a clean too.
Now don't use the same cloth because that's covered in oil. You'll need to find yourself
a new cloth. And you can just get into these parts here normally covered by strings so
you can't generally do that on a day to day basis.