Fret Doctor fretboard oil/cleaner/conditioner! :)

[BigAlTheBird]

http://www.beafifer.com/

This stuff (Fret Doctor) was an oil originally made for fifes and other woodwinds. The oil seeps in tiny microscopic cracks and blah blah blah.

Long story short, this stuff kicks ***!

I put it on my board today (just like 10 drops for the entire thing total - more than one application), and my board went from nice looking but scuffed and dull to dark and vibrant and smooth and just plain awesome! I've never in my life seen a better fretboard oil, and I mean it! This stuff is cool. Kinda expensive, but definitely worth it.

I'm not trying to advertise per se. I have no connection with the company. But I got my first bottle in the mail today, cleaned my board and the difference is dramatic. It's really incredible. Check it out!

 

[MojoMonster]

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Double +1!
I've now reconditioned 5 fretboards with the stuff and it is amazing.
Definitely recommending it to my friends.
MM

 

[shredaholic]

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Just remembered I had some spare cash in my Paypal account, so I've ordered some of this stuff. Hopefully it'll do the job with my Warmoth's ebony fretboard, as it's started to dry out quite a lot in this recent heatwave.

 

[Robert Delahunt]

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http://www.beafifer.com/

This stuff (Fret Doctor) was an oil originally made for fifes and other woodwinds. The oil seeps in tiny microscopic cracks and blah blah blah. Long story short, this stuff kicks ***! I put it on my board today (just like 10 drops for the entire thing total - more than one application), and my board went from nice looking but scuffed and dull to dark and vibrant and smooth and just plain awesome! I've never in my life seen a better fretboard oil, and I mean it! This stuff is cool. Kinda expensive, but definitely worth it. I'm not trying to advertise per se. I have no connection with the company. But I got my first bottle in the mail today, cleaned my board and the difference is dramatic. It's really incredible. Check it out!

Me, I just use lemon oil that's meant for furniture. Works just fine.

But thanks! If I ever buy fretboard oil, I'll get some!

 

[DonP]

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http://www.beafifer.com/

I use it.

 

[metallicaxlxl]

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lemon oil can sometimes actually dry youre fretboard. i mean yeah of cource at first it looks nice and vibrant and clean and full of life... thats all because you just put some liquid on it, but after a few days, it seems dryer than it used to be.

i just use windex to clean it and vaseline to moisturize it.

 

[Robert Delahunt]

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lemon oil can sometimes actually dry youre fretboard. i mean yeah of cource at first it looks nice and vibrant and clean and full of life... thats all because you just put some liquid on it, but after a few days, it seems dryer than it used to be. i just use windex to clean it and vaseline to moisturize it.

I dunno about that. Mine never seemed to dry out. I would think vaseline would be the wrong thing to put on them because it's not natural to the wood, and neither is Windex. So I'll do more research, but in my experience, lemon oil works fine.

"Rosewood fingerboards should not be treated with the gunstock oil; instead they should be treated with a high grade of lemon oil." Ernie Ball FAQ

 

[metallicaxlxl]

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i think it was in some carvin manual or some other manual that someone on some other forum found this. ive been doing it ever since he told me to do it, and it works flawlessly. my necks are absolutely gorgeous, especially my nylon acoustics fretboard. i did it a few months ago, and it hasnt to date lost that dark, full of life look. my electric starts looking a bit dry after 3 or 4 months. also 3 in 1 oil works just as well, if not better than vaseline, because its meant for wood and stuff, but vaseline is something everyone has, and it works just great.

(make sure the windex is the original blue one with amonia D!!)

 

[Metalman_666]

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For everyone who uses vaseline etc, read the long paragraphs on the fifer site, it seems like it could be true .

Is this Fret Doctor ok to use on inlays and everything?

 

[Robert Delahunt]

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i think it was in some carvin manual or some other manual that someone on some other forum found this. ive been doing it ever since he told me to do it, and it works flawlessly. my necks are absolutely gorgeous, especially my nylon acoustics fretboard. i did it a few months ago, and it hasnt to date lost that dark, full of life look. my electric starts looking a bit dry after 3 or 4 months. also 3 in 1 oil works just as well, if not better than vaseline, because its meant for wood and stuff, but vaseline is something everyone has, and it works just great. (make sure the windex is the original blue one with amonia D!!)

Well, I'm thinking it's probably not a good idea to put anything unnatural on a natural fretboard. In this case, with rosewood, lemon oil is a lot more natural (it comes from lemon trees), where as vaseline is not (it comes from oil refining). Since oil comes from the ground from compressed plants and animals....

But still, maybe it's best to use a product MADE for that purpose, and in this case, Fret Doctor fretboard oil is probably better than both lemon oil and vaseline. However, if you wanted to go the ultra-tree-hugger ultra-analytical obsessive-compulsive-disorder route, buy rosewood oil lol

 

[RW James]

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I use Guitar Honey

 

[Robert Delahunt]

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I use Guitar Honey

Nice psalms quote in yer sig.
I was thinking about taking used guitars and processing them for their oil, but alas....
LOL

 

[metallicaxlxl]

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ive heard many goods about guitar honey. if i ever try anything different, thatd be it.

 

[BigAlTheBird]

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Is this Fret Doctor ok to use on inlays and everything?

Yeah dude. The molecules themselves are smaller than normal oil molecules, so it doesn't get clogged in the inlay joints. And it doesn't hurt the inlays themselves either.

Vaseline on a fretboard? Throwing your guitar off a building is probably being nicer to it.

 

[big_black]

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Me, I just use lemon oil that's meant for furniture. Works just fine.

But thanks! If I ever buy fretboard oil, I'll get some!

Most of the "lemon oil" used for furniture contains petroleum distillates. This is what dries out the fretboard.

 

[Robert Delahunt]

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Most of the "lemon oil" used for furniture contains petroleum distillates. This is what dries out the fretboard.

Oh. I'd better check mine then and make sure it don't have any....
Thanks!

 

[Mephis]

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lemon oil can sometimes actually dry youre fretboard. i mean yeah of cource at first it looks nice and vibrant and clean and full of life... thats all because you just put some liquid on it, but after a few days, it seems dryer than it used to be.

i just use windex to clean it and vaseline to moisturize it.

Do you also use hardwood cleaner on your guitar's body? Geeze, some people have no idea how to take care of guitars....

 

[Sludgenutz]

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I just have to mention that Fret Doctor seems to be a great product, and Ed Boyle gets 100 percent thumbs-up for not only the product, but even International shipping speeds! My own (money order) order went from West coast, to East Coast, and back in less than 7 days!

I have nothing but praise for Fret Doctor. I have used "petroleum distillate" based products like generic "lemon oil" (of unkwown blends) before, and they just seem to sit on the surface of the fretboard...until you have to wipe the excess off. With Fret Doctor the actual penetration of the product is amazing...even on hard ebony. Ebony one of the few woods on Earth that is so dense, it sinks in water! On rosewood, Fret Doctor disappears into the grain(!), and the next morning, you just buff the surface of the fretboard with a piece of cotton cloth for good measure. Make sure you lay the guitar down horizontally for an overnight treatment.

I have read of countless converts (100% so far), and the positive response in this "all-to-easy-to-be-negative" world of the internet...Fret Doctor is unique!

If someone were to steal my bottle, I would buy another.

 

[metallicaxlxl]

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Do you also use hardwood cleaner on your guitar's body? Geeze, some people have no idea how to take care of guitars....

dude im telling you this stuff works really well, ive been doing it for a while now, ive heard about it all over the net too, found it in a few guitar manuals, bunch of forums, cyberfret forums are all for it. it wont harm youre guitar in any ways, it but of cource it wont work AS WELL as pro stuff, but its thigns you find in almost every home.

 

[Sludgenutz]

Re: Fret Doctor fretboard oil/cleaner/conditioner!

dude im telling you this stuff works really well, ive been doing it for a while now, ive heard about it all over the net too, found it in a few guitar manuals, bunch of forums, cyberfret forums are all for it. it wont harm youre guitar in any ways, it but of cource it wont work AS WELL as pro stuff, but its thigns you find in almost every home.

What is the PRO stuff? :dance: :dance: :dance: I gotta know!:yell: