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hendixclarke
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Post Number: 70
Registered: 6-2007
Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 8:16 am:   Edit Post

Daaaammm, it looks great!

Wood and olive oil works great. I clean my Series I from head to base, with a dry cloth (Lams wool) and then added a dab of olive oil, and rubbed lightly, and it looks great. The shine on the fret ebony wood shines too.

I never thought of using olive oil would work so well, but it does a great job. If someone posted this discovery or other methods, please share.
adriaan
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Post Number: 1680
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 8:24 am:   Edit Post

Paul TBO mentions using it, on one of the earlier "oil" threads.
bsee
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Post Number: 1829
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 9:07 am:   Edit Post

Is there any issue with odor down the road from use of olive oil? Maybe the use of such a small amount makes it okay.
hendixclarke
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Post Number: 71
Registered: 6-2007
Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 9:29 am:   Edit Post

You mean "the ah-roma" (I wish it did... I love the smell of Olive Oil), I can't detect any smells.

However, if you consider olive oil an "odor" then I would simply fray this idea. But interms of shine, and care...BAM! I win doubles.
bsee
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Post Number: 1830
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 3:13 pm:   Edit Post

Fresh olive oil smells fine. Olive oil that's been sitting out exposed to light and air for a few months is a lot less appealing, though. I would still be afraid to do this to one of my instruments until I heard a positive response from Alembic, or at least a long-term report.
lbpesq
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Post Number: 2705
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Friday, November 09, 2007 - 11:34 am:   Edit Post

I've heard if you add some anchovy paste and raw egg it can be used to shine up the brass. I think they used this formula on the May, 2004, COTM, the "Roman Conqueror"

Bill, tgo
bsee
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Post Number: 1832
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Friday, November 09, 2007 - 5:56 pm:   Edit Post

Worcestershire sauce, maybe?
crgaston
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Post Number: 454
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Friday, November 09, 2007 - 6:28 pm:   Edit Post

I used to use canola oil on my first bass, an Ibanez with a rosewood fingerboard. I don't recall it smelling, and it seemed to actually mellow the tone a bit.
davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 5657
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 2:59 pm:   Edit Post

Putting pure essential peach oil on the fretboard will give you more of that Allman Brothers sound. I've even heard that the really grungy sound of the MC5 can be attained by adding just a little pure essential motor oil.
lbpesq
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Post Number: 2711
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 3:04 pm:   Edit Post

I understand Barry White's bass player used KY jelly. And if you play for Barry Manilow, you're required to use pure pepsi syrup.

Bill tgo
glocke
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Post Number: 271
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 4:25 am:   Edit Post

I use hash oil on all my basses to get that pyschadelic groove going.
davehouck
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Post Number: 5663
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Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 7:14 am:   Edit Post

Hash oil! What a great idea! Hmmm ... do they carry that at the health food store??
lbpesq
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Post Number: 2712
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Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 9:53 am:   Edit Post

They do in California!

Bill, tgo
hendixclarke
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Post Number: 72
Registered: 6-2007
Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 10:00 am:   Edit Post

From Olive oil to hash oil?

You guys have way too much time on your "hands"...

:-)
kimberly
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Post Number: 139
Registered: 1-2007
Posted on Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 10:49 am:   Edit Post

Great thread. :-)
byoung
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Username: byoung

Post Number: 822
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 - 12:00 pm:   Edit Post

I always oil with the tears of my vanquished enemies.

muhahahahahaha.
mele_aloha
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Username: mele_aloha

Post Number: 295
Registered: 1-2007
Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 8:36 pm:   Edit Post

I've found through the years that if I use to much or to heavy of any oil especially on my fingerboard it can clog my strings and takes the brightness out of them.

Has anybody experienced that?

Paul
adriaan
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Post Number: 1689
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 1:01 am:   Edit Post

You should apply oil in small quantities, never soak the fingerboard - that can actually harm the fingerboard.
jacko
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Post Number: 1469
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 2:21 am:   Edit Post

paul.
The general consensus on this forum has been to put the old strings back on after oiling the fingerboard and play with them for a week or so to pick up the loose residues. Then change the strings.

Graeme
mele_aloha
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Username: mele_aloha

Post Number: 299
Registered: 1-2007
Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 10:59 pm:   Edit Post

Excellent Jacko,

Thanks for the secret. Have you heard about boiling the strings where it not only cleans them but brings them back to life?

Actually I'm watching "Emerill Live" right now so maybe I'm watching to much "cooking channel", haha!!!

P
white_cloud
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Username: white_cloud

Post Number: 43
Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 12:01 am:   Edit Post

Hey Paul, I have been boiling my strings for 20 years. It really gives them that brand new crisp lively sound, but only for a relatively short time! They also taste great with spaghetti sauce:-) John.
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1692
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 1:25 am:   Edit Post

Boiled strings also lose the ability to produce a steady pitch - they kind of go out of focus. Then again, I never really noticed that before I got my first Alembic!
cozmik_cowboy
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Post Number: 229
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 7:15 am:   Edit Post

I once read an interview with Harvey Brooks in which he said that he hated the sound of new strings, so he'd play them until they broke - then he'd rub the new ones with barbeque sauce. Yummy!

Peter

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