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.
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.
we take for granted the ease with which information flows now days.
I only started guitar this year and the first thing I did with my first guitar was clean the human slime off the fret board, oil it, then set it up to factory specs. I could imagine buying my first guitar even 20 years ago and just getting used to however it was setup and potentially not even thinking about cleaning the fret board.
I could imagine not even knowing what a truss rod is much less that you should be adjusting it occasionally.
This is the best time in history to have literally any hobby.
That’s exactly how I started playing guitar. I had a cheap strat, with no setup. I got used to it and I could play it fine.
I bought more guitars over the years, and when I moved out, I didn’t even bother bringing that guitar with me. Earlier this year l, my mom asked me to clean out some crap from my old bedroom, so I decided to take the guitar, give it some much needed attention and sell it. I cleaned the grime off of the fretboard and set it up properly. All of a sudden it went from a shitbox to a very decent guitar.
The new owner has a better strategy than I ever had, haha.
I also had a shitty guitar floating around that I would tweak out, over tighten etc just to see what would happen. Kinda fun