Originally Posted by: suicidalmooseOK so I got my guitar a few months ago, and it's coming that time of the month where i should probably do a few maintenance things. The guitar itself is working awesome, and the strings are fine.
what do i do to clean the fretboard, do I oil any parts like tuners or the bridge (it's tunomatic, not a whamy bridge), is there anything you use to polish a guitar (it's a Matte black guitar)?
Also, cable maintenance? My guitar cables aren't cheap but they are already starting to screw up (i'm kinda voilent with my cables), is that just a fact of life or are there any tricks?
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If its a rosewood fretboard a little lemon oil will clean it up nicely, if its maple, scrape any crud off with somethin blunt (end of a plastic ruler) and give it a wipe over with a damp, NOT WET, cloth, you don't need to oil anythin just give all the hardware a wipe over with dry lint free cloth, there are numerous guitar polishes on the market, your local guitar shop should be able to advise you according to the type of finish on your axe, with regard to your cables the only advise i can offer is, look after them, the wire inside eventually breaks down, basically the cheaper the cable the quicker they break down, hope this helps dude :)
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