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Post by billyguitar on Aug 27, 2006 5:45:47 GMT -7
WD40 HAS to be a bad idea! Especially on a rosewood fingerboard let alone the health concern.
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Post by tele1962 on Aug 31, 2006 20:08:20 GMT -7
The natural body acids in some guys cause premature blackening of the strings and can't be helped to a degree. Keeping hands clean is a good thing however, as dead skin and bacteria build up easily on guitar necks. It's not only a corrosion issue, it can be a basic health issue. And THAT"S telling it exactly like it is. No Karma please...I'd hate to be popular for belaboring the obvious!
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Post by tele1962 on Aug 31, 2006 20:11:26 GMT -7
WD40 HAS to be a bad idea! Especially on a rosewood fingerboard let alone the health concern. True enough Billy. But watch some of these guys give each other high fives and karma for dirty guitars, toxic substances, and and graduating from Swinery 101 with distinction! It is truly a wild world!
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Post by billyguitar on Sept 1, 2006 3:41:16 GMT -7
It seems dirt has become cool for some reason. Dirty looking fake faded jeans, don't cut the string tails on the headstock, piercings all over with silver jewelry that has intentional black fake dirt in the grooves, bed-head hair. It's all too nasty for me!
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Post by johngourlay on Sept 1, 2006 7:01:01 GMT -7
And me! YeuK. I joined the Royal Navy at 16 and if you didn't shower at least twice a day they'd do it for you...with a scrubbing brush. Ouch. All this talk of dead skin and bacteria, where's the handy antiseptic guitar wipes when you need em?
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Post by tele1962 on Sept 1, 2006 16:04:02 GMT -7
LOL Exactly. It's cool ( dirt and grime) until you break it down into it's real components. Cars and guitars were meant to be kept clean and driven or played. A car that is not washed regularly is more suseptable to rust and corrosion, and guitars can suffer some of the same fate.
Ask Zack Childs how much he flinched when they put mud on Paisley's Crook for the CD jacket. ( Mud on the Tires). He carefully cleaned it all back up again, but the point is clean is a very good thing. The job of most guitar Techs on the road is strings, tuning, cleaning and electronics. In the shop, cleaning pots, bridges, necks, fret dressing, etc. can sometimes make a customer ask" Hey, what did you do to this thing...it plays great and feels awesome!" When told it was a clean-up and set -up, they usually don't believe me. They're convinced I added something, or performed magic.
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