Teek
Well-known member
I got Finger Ease spray for my hubby when he was trying to tackle our vintage 3/4 steel string acoustic guitars. It worked well on the D'Addario Phosphor bronze wound strings, but it REALLY did a number on my lil Epiphone Pee Wee guitar. Slick and fast all right. It had been full of grunge on the fingerboard and the frets were really dull and sticky-ish from dust and sitting out for a couple of years. I cleaned the fingerboard with super fine steel wool, polished the frets, oiled the fingerboard with lemon oil and wiped off. It was much much better, but the spray made it really responsive.
I cleaned off the dusty layer on my Halekoa when I restrung it with Worth browns yesterday, did basically the same procedure, and what a difference in the sound, I knew the uke had better potential than the strings it came with were showing, I could hear it through them, but the were too high a tension for the action and were throttling the sound. So it sounded great but I felt like I was wresting with it a bit. The back of the neck is satin, is part of it. So I sprayed the back of the neck and that was better, then thought what the heck and sprayed the fingerboard. Now everything is clearer tonewise and slides are easier.
Anybody else use this stuff?
I cleaned off the dusty layer on my Halekoa when I restrung it with Worth browns yesterday, did basically the same procedure, and what a difference in the sound, I knew the uke had better potential than the strings it came with were showing, I could hear it through them, but the were too high a tension for the action and were throttling the sound. So it sounded great but I felt like I was wresting with it a bit. The back of the neck is satin, is part of it. So I sprayed the back of the neck and that was better, then thought what the heck and sprayed the fingerboard. Now everything is clearer tonewise and slides are easier.
Anybody else use this stuff?