My daughter was given a second hand acoustic guitar by a friend he wasn't using it. It's a cheap guitar, but it looks nice and plays pretty well, now. I changed the strings on it for her and discovered the worst case of fingerboard scum build up I've ever seen. I had to sand it off with steel wool. The photo is half way through the job. There were mountain ranges of the the stuff!
Current:
GTH-1
Completed:
AST-1FB
First Act ME276 (resurrected curb-side find)
ES-5V
Scratchie lapsteel
Custom ST-1 12 String
JBA-4
TL-1TB
Scratch Lapsteel
Meinl DIY Cajon
Cigar Box lap steel
Wishing:
Baritone
Open D/Standard Double 6 twin neck
crikey Fretty, I've seen some fretboard scum but thats a classic case. If you did a triple bend the strings would be covered in scum. Keep up the steel woolling !
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
The guy who owned it before must have worked in a fish and chip shop. That's a lot of grunge!
i get that on my guitars from when ive been working on bikes then gone and played my guitar without cleaning my hands. nice mucky black buildup on the maple fretboard yumm
That's years worth of love right there.
Looks like my SG before I gave it a clean recently. Westy can attest to the grot :P
It's just mojo, maaan.
That's not mojo, that's funk./<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from Nickosaurus on September 25, 2014, 21:19
It's just mojo, maaan.
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