I’ve had guitars for I donno, 20 years now. Only this week did I first ever oil one of the fretboard. Learned you should be doing it +/- every 6 months haha. I don’t know about that. But it does bring out the color kinda nice.

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    19 days ago

    That’s exactly how I started playing guitar. I had a cheap strat, with no setup. I got used to it and I could play it fine.

    I bought more guitars over the years, and when I moved out, I didn’t even bother bringing that guitar with me. Earlier this year l, my mom asked me to clean out some crap from my old bedroom, so I decided to take the guitar, give it some much needed attention and sell it. I cleaned the grime off of the fretboard and set it up properly. All of a sudden it went from a shitbox to a very decent guitar.

    The new owner has a better strategy than I ever had, haha.

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      19 days ago

      I also had a shitty guitar floating around that I would tweak out, over tighten etc just to see what would happen. Kinda fun