Hmm... it appears I have mail.
Is it can be string tiem?
IT CAN BE STRING TIEM!
As some of you will recall, I ordered some gigantic fucking strings for an adventure or two in F#. How gigantic?
This gigantic.
But first, we have to show the Blackjack some love.
Yes, that is a broken E string. A 52, tuned to E, succumbed to my absurdly heavy-handed playing a good while back, and rather than put on a new set of *normal* strings I ordered these.
That is what happens when the core wire snaps on the bridge. No fun.
We proceed to observe the fretboard that hasn't been oiled or cleaned in a good while, and the strings that have been sitting there doing nothing since the E broke.
Toothbrush and furniture oil to the rescue!
But there's one problem...
Fuck imperial units!
Ounces = fail.
I prefer to squirt some oil into the bottle cap, dip an old toothbrush in it, and use that to apply (side-to-side, parallel to frets) to the fretboard. It's wide and brushy enough to cover evenly, and the bristes also get in under the frets well enough.
I'm fairly generous with oil. It's cheap.
After the oil has set in, the board looks much better.
There's a very subtle but very nice-looking streak of lighter brown near the thin-string side of the neck that I felt like taking pictures of.
Is pretty colour.
And now it is time for strings.
(To be continued...)
Is it can be string tiem?
IT CAN BE STRING TIEM!
As some of you will recall, I ordered some gigantic fucking strings for an adventure or two in F#. How gigantic?
This gigantic.
But first, we have to show the Blackjack some love.
Yes, that is a broken E string. A 52, tuned to E, succumbed to my absurdly heavy-handed playing a good while back, and rather than put on a new set of *normal* strings I ordered these.
That is what happens when the core wire snaps on the bridge. No fun.
We proceed to observe the fretboard that hasn't been oiled or cleaned in a good while, and the strings that have been sitting there doing nothing since the E broke.
Toothbrush and furniture oil to the rescue!
But there's one problem...
Fuck imperial units!
Ounces = fail.
I prefer to squirt some oil into the bottle cap, dip an old toothbrush in it, and use that to apply (side-to-side, parallel to frets) to the fretboard. It's wide and brushy enough to cover evenly, and the bristes also get in under the frets well enough.
I'm fairly generous with oil. It's cheap.
After the oil has set in, the board looks much better.
There's a very subtle but very nice-looking streak of lighter brown near the thin-string side of the neck that I felt like taking pictures of.
Is pretty colour.
And now it is time for strings.
(To be continued...)
