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Have you ever oiled your fretboard? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by phonics@lemmy.world to c/guitars@lemmy.world

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I've had guitars for I donno, 20 years now. Only this week did I first ever oil one of the fretboard. Learned you should be doing it +/- every 6 months haha. I don't know about that. But it does bring out the color kinda nice.

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[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Any chance you mean lemon oil, not lemon juice?

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hope so, lemon juice is acidic and will strip the oil off/out of the wood. Probably still wouldn't use lemon oil either, just in the off chance it has some acidic properties left.

[–] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the info. It’s just called lemon oil because of the smell, it’s a mineral oil, no actual lemons involved.

[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately I meant lemon juice, I saw a video once that said that if you don't have oil you can use lemon juice, and it kinda worked well for me somehow, however after reading your replies I just searched and it seems that using lemon juice is really not a thing.

Thank you for calling this to my attention as I will stop using lemon juice.