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Old 11-11-2009, 09:51 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I really don't have many problems with my guitar, 'cept maybe that green **** that gets in the ends of my frets. I can't clean really clean it out for some reason, or maybe I'm not trying hard enough. Oh wait, one more thing, my neck pickup is noticeably louder then my bridge and when I turn it down it bleeds tone and it just pisses me the **** off when I want both pickups to be active.
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Old 11-11-2009, 10:27 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I really don't have many problems with my guitar, 'cept maybe that green **** that gets in the ends of my frets. I can't clean really clean it out for some reason, or maybe I'm not trying hard enough. Oh wait, one more thing, my neck pickup is noticeably louder then my bridge and when I turn it down it bleeds tone and it just pisses me the **** off when I want both pickups to be active.
To avoid getting grim on my fret board I wash my hands before I play and then I wipe down the string and the neck with a dry linen after playing. I read in a guitar mag that you should avoid using water to clean the neck because it swell the wood and pshes up the frets.

To clean frets that oxidizes or that bit of dirt & grim that gets on it, chrome polish. I use Turtle Wax I pour a little dab on a old T shirt, I give it a twist so it absord into the cloth. and then let it dry. I wrap the clothe around my index finger, the carefully touching the fret (not to get the junk on the fretboard) just point and slide along the fret, that shines them up nicely.

To prevent you high frequencies from bleeding off use a shunt (a capacitor and resistor in parallel) on your volume control, between the lead and variable terminal on the volume pot.
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To avoid getting grim on my fret board I wash my hands before I play and then I wipe down the string and the neck with a dry linen after playing. I read in a guitar mag that you should avoid using water to clean the neck because it swell the wood and pshes up the frets.

To clean frets that oxidizes or that bit of dirt & grim that gets on it, chrome polish. I use Turtle Wax I pour a little dab on a old T shirt, I give it a twist so it absord into the cloth. and then let it dry. I wrap the clothe around my index finger, the carefully touching the fret (not to get the junk on the fretboard) just point and slide along the fret, that shines them up nicely.

To prevent you high frequencies from bleeding off use a shunt (a capacitor and resistor in parallel) on your volume control, between the lead and variable terminal on the volume pot.
Thanks man, I've heard of those things that prevent tone bleeds but, to install it that would require me to use a soldering gun and I can't trust myself.
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