NightTrain
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I got my son an older Les Paul for Christmas. My neighbor did the fret board with lemon oil and it made it look much darker.
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I got my son an older Les Paul for Christmas. My neighbor did the fret board with lemon oil and it made it look much darker.
That's a great gift for a kid, a real guitar. Yes, lemon oil will darken the fretboard somewhat. It'll lighten up after a few weeks.
Make sure the ends of the frets aren't sharp. The newer stuff I'm seeing come from China is terrible. If it's an Epiphone, it's probably Chinese; if it's Gibson it's of course USA made and only somewhat likely to need fret work to be playable.
NightTrain
Veteran XX
That's a great gift for a kid, a real guitar. Yes, lemon oil will darken the fretboard somewhat. It'll lighten up after a few weeks.
Make sure the ends of the frets aren't sharp. The newer stuff I'm seeing come from China is terrible. If it's an Epiphone, it's probably Chinese; if it's Gibson it's of course USA made and only somewhat likely to need fret work to be playable.
It's a Gibson Les Paul Studio made 12/98. He loves it
By the end, I was doing one every 20 minutes, so it took....about 15 hours worth of work, total. The quote was for tree fiddy. Really
I had to replace one nut that I filed too low at a cost of $6.50, and used maybe $2 in shop materials (sandpaper, oil etc.), so it basically works out to around $22/hour. That's a lot less than what I make at my day job, but it was something I did in my spare time for fun, more or less.