(Excuse me for my not very good english)
Hi all,
I have a Fender Stratocaster Blacktop HH that I bought a few years ago and that I have modified to noiseless SSH as shown in this post (click here), I really like very much the guitar sound and tone, but I am having a problem with the fretboard that feels rough and dry, expecially when I do bendings I feel a very uncomfortable friction and sometimes the skin of my fingers gets "pinched" between the string and the fretboard.
In comparison, I have another gorgeous guitar (Blade RH4 from 1991, in my opinion a greatly underrated brand) with jumbo frets and ebony freboard, that feels wonderful, it is really great pleasure to play that guitar, fingers feels sliding with no effort and bendings are smooth and easy to play with great precision. (I have to say that for the Blade RH4 I payd 4 times the price of the Strat Blacktop HH)
The Strat feels very different as said before, it has medium jumbo frets and while playing I can feel friction and bending almost gets "stuck" at some point because the freboard feels dry and sort of rough.
I also have another acousting guitar, a $250 Washburn from the '90 too, that also has a rosewood freboard but actually it doesen't feel that dry and rough as the Strat.
Honestly, I didn't notice that problem since a few weeks ago, mainly because I was more concentrated on the tone and mods, maybe also because I started to play that guitar more than before after I changed pickups to something that I like a lot now. I don't know if the fretboard got dry after a very hot summer that we had or some similar problem.
I have been searching a lot how to solve that problem and I am very confused because I found any sorf of answer and the opposite of it: sanding, using oils, using "conditioners", using professional products, etc, and also many others posts that deny the same practices: sanding is useless, don't use oils on the wood, that professional product is going to damage the wood, etc...
I would like to know, in your experience, if you had a similar problem and how did you fix it, or what is possible to do to make the fretboard feels less friction and less dry.
Thanks in advance for any suggesion.
Hi all,
I have a Fender Stratocaster Blacktop HH that I bought a few years ago and that I have modified to noiseless SSH as shown in this post (click here), I really like very much the guitar sound and tone, but I am having a problem with the fretboard that feels rough and dry, expecially when I do bendings I feel a very uncomfortable friction and sometimes the skin of my fingers gets "pinched" between the string and the fretboard.
In comparison, I have another gorgeous guitar (Blade RH4 from 1991, in my opinion a greatly underrated brand) with jumbo frets and ebony freboard, that feels wonderful, it is really great pleasure to play that guitar, fingers feels sliding with no effort and bendings are smooth and easy to play with great precision. (I have to say that for the Blade RH4 I payd 4 times the price of the Strat Blacktop HH)
The Strat feels very different as said before, it has medium jumbo frets and while playing I can feel friction and bending almost gets "stuck" at some point because the freboard feels dry and sort of rough.
I also have another acousting guitar, a $250 Washburn from the '90 too, that also has a rosewood freboard but actually it doesen't feel that dry and rough as the Strat.
Honestly, I didn't notice that problem since a few weeks ago, mainly because I was more concentrated on the tone and mods, maybe also because I started to play that guitar more than before after I changed pickups to something that I like a lot now. I don't know if the fretboard got dry after a very hot summer that we had or some similar problem.
I have been searching a lot how to solve that problem and I am very confused because I found any sorf of answer and the opposite of it: sanding, using oils, using "conditioners", using professional products, etc, and also many others posts that deny the same practices: sanding is useless, don't use oils on the wood, that professional product is going to damage the wood, etc...
I would like to know, in your experience, if you had a similar problem and how did you fix it, or what is possible to do to make the fretboard feels less friction and less dry.
Thanks in advance for any suggesion.
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