Ever use NEVR DULL wadding polish on frets?

[john1880]

I found some of this laying around at work and tried it on a couple of frets. It seems to work well to clean them up and add a nice shine. Anyone use this? Any opinions? Thanks.

John

[RSVampire]

it work really good on metal but it's gunna kill your fretboard if you let it touch it so it's not worth it IMO

[john1880]

OK. Thanks for the warning. What does it do dry it out?

[RSVampire]

yeah it'll dry out the wood a lot and your fretboard has a huge high risk of cracking or splitting. IE wood filler or new fretboard. Rich should have a tutorial on his website on how he shines and polishes frets.

http://www.ibanezrules.com/tech/grunge/grunge_3.htm
http://www.ibanezrules.com/tech/grunge/grunge_4.htm

[nightfiend14]

just tape off the wood between frets and then hit the frets with some 0000 steel wool, will look nice and shiny in no time.

[buddroyce]

I use it on my guitars to do a final polish for my frets. Like nightfiend said, just tape off the frets before you use it.

[albee1952]

I have used it as well but prefer to use steel wool or a polishing wheel with compound on a dremel. I always use those stainless steel pieces from stewmac to protect the fingerboard.

[Rotti]

Okay here is my super top secret fret polishing method. Go to a jewelry store and get a jewelry pollishing cloth. (like this http://www.watchpolishing.com/polishingcloth.htm) They have two sides, usually the white side cleans and the grey or pink side buffs. Spend a little time polishing your frets with this and you will have the shiniest frets in town. It also seems to be very gentle to fretboards.