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Guitar
I just started Guitar, the 15th to be exact. Its my first time ever playing the guitar and It really comes easy. I have played the Piano since I was 7 so that helps.
What I'm asking you about is My guitar is brand new and very shiny. What do you do to clean/polish it? I'm afraid to use anything for fear of ruining it. I could ask my teacher but I don't see her till next week and my sister, husband are coming tomorrow and she has been thinking of getting a guitar and has asted like she knows all. I really wanted to have my guitar all clean and beautiful with out the fingerprints.
If you could give any information that would be greatly appriecated.
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I have used some of the commercially available guitar polishes, such as the spray-on/wipe-off stuff from Gibson and PRS. Car wax also works, but only on guitars that have that style of paint (aka, Fenders, but not Gibsons {or at least not the Les Paul}).
I would not recommend Windex, unless you are sure the pain is fairly thick, and even then, don't use it on the neck at all.
Some guitars, you can use a bit of lemon oil on the fret board.
I think Endust is ok, but I'm not sure about furniture sprays like Pledge.
You can also check the website of the guitar maker - many of them have site, and might offer cleaning tips for their particular instruments. I know any cellulose-based paint jobs like what you find on the Les Paul need to be handled very differently from the multi-layer acrylic paints of Fender, Ibanez, etc.
Another thought is to be a little more careful with cleaning acoustics - there is more bare wood exposed, like on the entire inside of the guitar - than on an electric. Generally, I use the same techniques, but might apply the polish to the cloth instead of directly to the guitar, just to make sure I have absolute control over where the polish is applied.
But yeah, I like the spray-on polishes. They are generally pretty cheap - about $5 a bottle, and last a really long time.
a few links to some polishes that I would use or have already used:
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