Hmmm... Have I ever noticed this name before???

John Cooley, hmmm... You sure you're not John Dooley? :)

Hang down your head John Dooley, poor boy your gonna die...

I should learn that song, it's got to be fairly simple.

To: ParagonGuitars@yahoogroups.com
From: jwcooley@...
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 14:23:48 -0700
Subject: Re: [ParagonGuitars] Re: LEMON OIL ON THE NECK?


























Well, now that you mention it...............



Actually, I have a regular annual routine for all my guitars. I take off the
strings (duh), and then clean the fretboard with 0000 steel wool. Go across the
grain like Rob described, and don't be afraid to polish the frets.........it
makes them shiny. Then I clean the body with generic glass cleaner from Wal-Mart
(a luthier trick I learned somewhere.........LOL). After that, it's a light coat
of Virtuoso polish on the shiny parts, and Ken Smith's Pro Formula on the satin
neck. Between body oil from playing and the Ken Smith's, the neck takes on more
of a gunstock finish. As for oil, I just use Dunlop Fretboard Oil. But
seriously, you have to really wipe it down afterward, and once a year is enough
in my humble opinion. Then I snug up any screws or nuts, but a little candle wax
on my bridge pins, and string them back up. Oh, and I always put a little oil on
the bridge too, as it's unfinished ebony as well. To do my five guitars takes a
full day, but

it's a labor of love.



John

--- On Wed, 6/3/09, robustos11 <rob.paragon@...> wrote:



From: robustos11 <rob.paragon@...>

Subject: [ParagonGuitars] Re: LEMON OIL ON THE NECK?

To: ParagonGuitars@yahoogroups.com

Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 12:25 PM



Hey Mike. I've tried a bunch of stuff for fingerboard oil, and this has been my
fave

http://www.lmii. com/CartTwo/ thirdproducts. asp?CategoryName =Finishes&
NameProdHeader= Fingerboard+ Oil



On new guitars, I first wipe down the fretboard with mineral spirits--takes any
gunk from masking tape off and really cleans it well. Then, apply this oil very
sparingly. It's synthetic so it doesn't go rancid and doesn't build up too much,
too. I used to use boiled linseed oil, but there's a big diff. I used lemon oil
for a while, because I liked the smell, but it leaves the fretboard looking a
little strange, the way it takes to the wood. It's actually not real lemon oil,
but just made to smell like that. There was a really good post on "The Canadian
Guitar Forum" about oils, and there are as many opinions as members there, just
about. Bottom line is that this LMI stuff works better than anything I've tried
in the past. I apply the oil across the grain, btw and make sure to get right up
to the frets. Disposable shop towels work better than regular paper towel.
Rember to really work it in and wipe off the excess till the towel is not really
looking

dirty anymore. And get it off the frets too. Hope some of that helps. I have no
experience with lemon pledge, but if it has wax in it, you will eventually build
up a gunk on your fretboard. The natural oils in the Ebony are very good, by
themselves, and you don't want to over maintain the fretboard unless it really
gets dry a lot. John Cooley has a pretty good program for maintaining his
fretboards. Maybe he'll chime in.



Rob



--- In ParagonGuitars@ yahoogroups. com, mike fred <thevernorsguy@ ...> wrote:

>

>

> Tom;

>

> > And here is a link to other opinion (Ernie Ball Forum?):

> > http://www.erniebal l.com/forums/ music-man- guitars/7982- lemon-oil-
neck-cleaning. html

> >

> > Good luck in your decision,

> > Tom

>

> Thanks for the info! Hopefully Rob will poke his head in here soon and give me
"smore" info. I want to start recording this weekend and want to change strings
probabaly Thursday night.

>

> MikeY

>



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