Hi one and all, when I play my fretting hand sweats like a pedo in a children's home. I keep a towel hanging out of my left hand trousers pocket and wipe my hand whenever I can. PLUS I give the neck a good wipe any chance I can. Consequently however much I wipe the sweat off the neck after a gig it still feels greasy the neck time I pick the bass up to play.

Is there anything anyone can recommend to remove the surface grease without damaging or discolouring the neck. To all intents and purposes the neck looks like new as it should will all the toweling it gets.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Any tips on controlling my left hand sweat would also help. Have read that a spray of deodorant works but everyone I have tried leaves grease when dry.

Just a general hard surface cleaner like flash will wipe away any body fat, just clean it when you get home from a gig and make sure you dilute it.
I suffered with a sweaty hand when I started out and was wiping it, best advice I got was to stop wiping. The more you wipe the more you will sweat, the sweat regulates the palm temperature, take that away and your hand will just keep heating up!

Interesting, but my hand sweats so much my fingers slip off the strings, a quick wipe helps for a while. The last band I played with would seque a 45 minute set with very little breaks for any of the rhythm section. So what I really need is a deodorant sprayed on my hand but one that doesn't leave a sticky residue when dry.

Hi Wal, had a quick look to see if anything came up to help your predicament.

http://www.prlog.org/10210957-stop-sw...-fast.html

lots of different things to try on this site.

"sweats like a pedo in a children's home

Best line I've heard for a while..I'll be using that one, thank you!!:D

Cheers Steve,

Will check it out.