Rosewood fingerboard finish?

[Brian Burns]

Hello again All,

I've recently been favoring rosewood as a fingerboard wood, and have been looking around for a finish for them that keeps their wonderful appearance---standard fingerboard oil leaves them quite dull looking.

I've been applying Tru Oil, which looks great at first. A few days later it's back to dulls-ville. I've been thinking that I'll just put on a bunch of coats, but I don't want the boards to end up feeling gummy.

Suggestions?

Cheers,

Brian

[Brian Burns]

Hello Guys,

In searching around I came across:

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With 170 some reviews, 91% at 5 gold stars, I figured it wasn't much of a flyer at $8.00, and Amazon Prime.

Amazon Prime has to be one of the cleverest marketing tricks of all time! I plan to use it for getting my guitars into the hands of potential customers. My newly instituted sales policy---stolen from Lester DeVoe:

Send me a certified check for the full amount, and I pay the outgoing freight charges. Try it for a week. If you want to return it, you pay the freight back to me, and I refund your money, less the cost of any repairs. Minor cosmetic damage doesn't count as repairs.

Cheers,

Brian

[Roger Häggström]

Looks like a great product.

[LARRY KLOSE]

Can't speak to the oil issue as I haven't used it but I quite accidentally stumbled upon a great cleaner for removing "finger shmutz" (technical term) from fingerboards.  My daughter gave me a bottle of Jim Dunlop Guitar cleaner for Christmas a couple of years ago and I promptly forgot about it.  I was restringing one of my guitars a few weeks ago when I ran across the bottle and tried it on the body and then, the fingerboard.  It works great to remove all of the ugly differential finger residue stuck between the strings on the board, removing the residue and returning the board to a nice, even, flat sheen.  No need for abrasives or other scraping, just a soft cloth and this stuff.  Its effectiveness seems to be proven by the brown color left on the rag.  Does a great job of removing similar body residue from the rest of the guitar body, too.  I've used it several other instruments since with the same result.  All have ebony fingerboards.  I haven't tried it yet on a rosewood fingerboard as I don't have any.

Larry

PS: I love Prime.  I've ordered a number of things I needed quickly and they all arrived on time--often the same day.  Beats a 25 mile trip to town, even if it's available there.