Do you treat maple fretboards??

[hugo]

I use lemon oil on my rosewoood fretboards but should I be doing anything to treat a maple fretboard? I also have a guitar that is a maple fretboard but it's not a cap.

 

[Jeffrey]

No. Most maple boards I've seen are polymer coated. No oiling is necessary.

 

[Pete Galati]

I just wipe the neck off after playing the guitar. I used to use one of those guitar polishing cloths, but now I just use a terricloth hand towel. Don't know if that's an approved meathod or not.

 

[Jack Wells]

I think you should treat a maple fretboard with respect.

 

[Tedecaster]

Take 'em out to dinner.

 

[enalnitram]

I have a guitar with an unfinished one-piece maple neck and fingerboard. I was wondering about this too. should I put tung oil on the back and lemon oil on the front? what's the best way?

 

[Jack Wells]

On a serious note ................. You're wasting your time trying to treat a maple fretboard if it has a hard finsh on it (poly or lacquer). Anything you put on it will just be wiped off.

 

[furrfurrfurr]

I think you should treat a maple fretboard with respect.

and then spank the crap out of it.

 

[slack]

I have rosewood necks half a century old and maple necks worn through the finish. I don't do anything to either, and prefer when instruments that I acquire have either not had any such treatment or if it was absolutely necessary (rosewood in extreme environments) that it was done sparingly and on rare occassion.

 

[Chimp #6]

I use Dunlop 65 to clean/treat the body and the gloss finish maple neck.
It works great.

 

[Blackstar]

and then spank the crap out of it.

Yeh & beat it to death with your fingertips

I just give mine a wipe with a towel after playing

 

[Joe-Bob]

When I change strings and wax the guitar, I do the maple fretboard as well.

 

[Parzival]

The back of my neck is bare wood. I don't use anything at all on it. Maple, even without a finish, is a very robust wood all on it's own. It's like the opposite of porus.