Hello, I have a Washburn Mercury MG72 that has barely seen the light of day for about 15 years, and when I got it out of it's case yesterday I noticed the frets have oxidised with a rather manky looking green tinge, so shame on me for not cleaning the thing before putting it away. I've looked via various search engines about cleaning and restoring nickle-silver but most of the suggestions seem like they may damage the rosewood fretboard & I would really would rather avoid having to remove the frets if possible.
Does anyone have any ideas to clean these while they are in place? Hopefully the solution will be something really simple that I've overlooked and I can feel a little sheepish instead of the alternaitve of removing the frets, thank you
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Just thought but.
If you were to treat the fretboard, oil and plenty of elbow grease, maybe the frets would shine up as well? If not, careful masking and the wirewool?
Dave.
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