I have an electric guitar, and its fingerboard in is rough shape after years of barely touching it and being lent to my younger brother (big mistake). I unfortunately don’t have an instrument shop close, so I would have to order oil for it, and even the closest one only carries like 1 or 2 kinds of string kits and a few arranger keyboards, not cleaning products.
While I probably could get mineral oil (not at the moment of writing this, due to weekends), I’m wondering how well cooking oil would work. Tried some grapeseed oil on some other piece of wood, where it wouldn’t be a problem.
NOTE: Likely will go with the mineral oil, so I also have something to clean strings with.
Vegetable oils for cooking are oxidizing but will oxidize slowly, like raw linseed or tung oil. It may have a slight odour as it may go rancid, though probably not significant. Mineral oil is a different kind of oil with a different purpose and won’t harden.
Did some reading, they also apparently get acidic, so it’s not a good idea.
Mineral Oil would work and is food safe
I’ve used rapeseed oil to oil the handles of my knives and whatnot since I couldn’t be arsed to buy an oil for that purpose.
Seems to work fine since it’s a half-hard oil iirc.
(edit Canola oil for the Americans )
Linseed oil is a good choice because the oil will partially polymerize as it oxidizes. Tung oil is also excellent. Most commercial products are a blend of these.
I recommend this also, but put a REALLY thin coat on. Like you should think you’ve barely got any on, and you should then wipe it off and think you’ve wiped too much off. There is a lot of bad advice out there about these oils. You can put more coats on if you think it needs it, 24 hours apart. If you put too much on, it will tend to look matte, or worse, get gummy.
Preach!
Yes, you can, but most would recommend against it because they do spoil, and it’s noticeable when they do
Can you order some proper stuff online?
Yes, but will arrive after a while.
In pur country there is problem, and that problem is transport.
How much do you like your guitar? Worth a bit of a wait?
You may as well use your own cum if you decide to use vegetable oil. That shit has organic compounds that break down when exposed to oxygen and go rancid. Mineral oil based instrument and gear oil are better suited.
