here are some pics of my new squier strat - twas made in the 80's - question about cleaning and stuf

nickp

nickp

it looks like the photo upload didn't work .

the guitar needs a fair bit of sorting - see my other threads on pickups as a starting point. 

anyway before i spend £160 on pickups, something easier; the fretboard is filthy and needs a clean and maybe oiling and a fret polish.

I guess I can do all this myself - can anyone point me towards some good instructions that I can read to start restoring it to luvverly playability

ta

nick

nickp

Adam_MD

Liberon 0000 wire wool is excellent for rosewood boards and frets. I use Gerlitz guitar honey to oil mine excellent stuff.

guitargeek62

You just need the Direct image address from photobucket, none of the HTML or IMG links.

drwiddly

If you use wire wool to clean the fingerboard, remember to mask the pickups first otherwise they'll end up very furry!

nickp

@guitargeek

well done on the photos - thanks!  have a wisdom!!!

thermionic

Have a look on youtube for videos showing a fingerboard being scraped by a Stanley knife blade (although they usually wrongly call it a razor blade). If you're going to oil it, you need to make sure there's not decades worth of finger-gunk on there first!

Flanging_Fred

If the fingerboard is all gunked up try using the edge of an old credit card to scrape it off. You have to be really careful scraping with a Stanley or razor blade or you can accidentally cut into the fingerboard.

Once you have scraped off as much gunk with the credit card, use can use naphtha / lighter fluid to clean the rest up. You can then rub some lemon or linseed oil in to feed the wood a bit (only on a rosewood neck though).

My newly purchased '90s Squier Srart is about to get the same treatment.

thermionic

Here's the one I was thinking of:

nickp

brilliant guys.  have ordered wire wool and oil.  fender website looks like it has some useful videos as well

cheers

nick

nickp

I have just found out (axesrus are brilliant) that that my plan of upgrading the trem won't work as the body is too thin to take a Wilkinson Trem so I think I'm just going to tidy it up and sell it

and then look for a mex strat.  

live and learn,