Okay all you wise people, whats the best thing to use when cleaning our Statii's?
You can get cleaning kits but they always seem to have various 'oils' for the neck wood which is okay if your neck's made of wood :o but what if is phenolic?
Answers on a postcard to-----
(No prize is given for the correct answer !) :(

Hi Status5, for phenolic fingerboards, Rob Green suggests:

"The dry look on the fingerboard is where the laminated phenolic material is actually 'drying' out a little. It is often caused by being cleaned with a water or solvent based polish which can take the natural 'oils' out of the board. You can fix this very easily by cleaning the fingerboard with a very small amount of oil. Something as simple as WD40 is fine. Use a soft cotton cloth and wipe a VERY small amount of oil on the fingerboard and rub it in.... then clean it all off again leaving just a trace which has 'soaked' into the surface. This will bring back the dark colour of the board. 'Non waxy' types of furniture polish are fine for the gloss lacquer on the body or the lacquer on the BACK of the neck but not for the fingerboard."

That's a start :-)

Lemon oil would probably work OK on the fingerboard as well.

Thanx guys!
The funny thing is, I would have avoided wd40 like the plague but if the 'man' sez its okay then it must be :p
I usually use a vinegar based cleaner for the frets so I guess thats not helping too much :(
I suppose lemon oil makes it smell nice toooooooo B)
Cheers
M

Hi there
I have always used Lemon as it strips any grotty hand grease away. Great tip with WD40 on the fingerboard and some times on the body lightly with T Cut to remove small scratches
Cheeeers

I bought the early Series II which was a bit of a mess (plays like an absolute dream though, thanks Kev)...



I stripped it down taking off all the brass and spent a few hours with some brasso etc. and now it looks a million times better...



took me back to my days in training with the Royal Marines... :(

nice tip on the neck!

I need to address the lacquer on the body next... "Hello Rob"!!!

:D

I use wd40 on the phenolic fingerboards as suggested (even disguises the scratch marks from using round-wound hotwires on a fretless!) and Mr Sheen original on the bodies:D

(maybe its just be ) but I find cheap lipstick and cotton wool works wonders on the bridge.

you do what with cheap lipstick and cotton wool ?

and which bridge is this ?

somewhere local to you ?

;)

P.

Lmao - The bridge of my S2000 :P

Cover it in lipstick, leave for a few minutes and rub off with cotton wool - So much better than brasso or other polishes. Im sure there is some sort of law about putting lipstick on bridges, want&destruction of public property?