Oiling Rosewood for Dummies.

[MetalManiac]

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Just so you know, there are people that maintain a fretboard should not be oiled whatsoever. Seems counterintuitive, but the reasons are laid forth as legit..I think having the frets to tend to sprout is one reason.

 

[RorySquier]

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Is this one you made? Was the fb unfinished to start with?

Well the fret board was originally pretty good looking but I wanted to go a darker look and the raw linseed oil has sort of put a gloss on the FB and looks more like ebony in some ways. I got lots of raw linseed oil and it's fairly cheap at the hardware store.



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[Nostalgic Distortion]

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I know they are a bit late to the party but here's some before & afters.

This stuff did amazing things to my SG's dry a$$ fretboard!!! Before the Rosewood had a very dry roasted Maple look to it, now it almost looks closer to Ebony than Rosewood. The second one, my ES139, wasn't quite as drastic but you can still tell it put some moisture back into the board. Even though they have a nice glossy shine to them they aren't at all greasy to the touch....

 

[Darg1911]

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Personally, I wouldn't use anything with wax on a fretboard (not including a board with a finish). I cant see how, eventually, it wont load up the grain. But maybe that wont matter. I usually use fractionated coconut oil. It's probably no better than the commercial products containing mineral oil as the primary ingredient. I do use Gerlitz Guitar Honey sometimes, just because I have some left. I suspect that fractionated coconut oil is the primary ingredient in the Bore Doctor Bore Oil / Fret Doctor Fret Oil.

 

[Rich_S]

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Man, this thread has some longevity. To follow up, the Ibanez I originally posted about is long gone, however, I recently noticed that the fretboard on my acoustic hasn't been touched in nearly thirty years. It was tan instead of rosewood-colored. After consulting this thread, I got some plain old mineral oil from Walmart. I wiped on a heavy coat with a rag and let it soak in, then repeated a few hours later, then wiped off the excess and gave it a half-assed polish with another rag. The board looks new again. Big improvement. It looked so pretty, I took it away with me for a week-long business trip, to play in the hotel instead of my usual Telecaster.

I also treated the board on my son's Squier CV P-Bass. The dark rosewood looks great against the Sonic Blue.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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I’m just glad none of the information out there on fretboard care is contradictory at all.

 

[ehdwuld]

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