where to buy lemon oil or similar?

[ninx]

where can i find them?

i'm also interested in looking for dye to darken a rosewood board.

 

[nitrovo]

yamaha shop in plaza singapura have a range of em

 

[SoulJah]

You can find them in hardware stores all over the place, prefably a homefix outlet. I try to stay away from ones that contain wax or silicon, my experience with them is that they cause certain amounts of build up on your board.

I've been using "old english Red oil" with pretty good results on darker woods.

 

[subversion]

i'm using:

as for lemon oil, guitar stores should have them.

 

[redjackal]

i'm using the dunlop 01 qnd 02 fretboard treatment.
i guess that's the safest way that i could trust my board to that product as i know nuts about fretboard wood conditioning equipments

 

[subversion]

some luthiers argue that guitar-based products contain commercially unfavourable ingredients, best fluid for wood will be from the people who are wood specialists, regardless of their guitar-ignorant background. rosewood/ other porous wood are wood after all.

for best results- pick the one which works for you 8)

 

[ninx]

any specific locations? i just kinda want to pick it up and go, without going to too many places.

i was also advised that black leather dye used for shoes will work. any opinions?

 

[ciel21]

i just use tung oil on my fret board. once or twice a year is more than enough

 

[SoulJah]

Ciel21: Where do you get your Tung Oil from? I've tried the one sold at Maestro guitars but it seems to give my fingerboard some residue.

 

[ciel21]

got a small bottlefrom G77 a whikle back. What residue u talking abt?

 

[popeye]

i just use tung oil on my fret board. once or twice a year is more than enough

hi man, do you know if it's advisable to use tung oil for the body of the guitar with oil stain finish?

 

[ciel21]

That im not sure.

 

[ShredCow]

On your S540LTD, it should be okay, best to check with Malcom.

 

[fade2b14ck]

i've got some problem wif my rosewood fretboard. it seems dat when i bend e strings against the fretboard, after some time e grains on e fretboard seem 2 wear off. dunlop lemon oil does put e fretborad 2 its original colour, but aft some time of playing n bending it happens again... can any1 giv me some advice on this?

 

[ciel21]

I used yamaha's lemon oil on my fretboard and it seems it was drying my board even further. Very light color on the board and looks way dry, Mark turned me onto tung oil, put my board back to its nice deep color.

It might look ok when u first put the lemon oil but when it dried out the color gets lighter cuz its drying the board.

I dunno abt this it might just be me but im staying away from lemon oil on my board. Most of them contains peteroleum distillitates and they are defintely not good for fretboards.

 

[fade2b14ck]

so e reason my fretborad's like dat coz it's 2 dry???

 

[ciel21]

i donch know. must look at it to tell.