Lemon Oil

[hammer]

You must do a much better job getting all that leftover lemon oil that doesn’t get absorbed into the fretboard off your bass than I do. I have found that if I don’t put the old strings back on for a couple of days after Lemon oiling the backsides of my brand new strings are typically quite black as are my fingers. Leaving the old strings on doesn’t do anything about the fingers but certainly keeps the new strings looking new.

[BeenDown139]

well i don't put very much on, i work it in with an absorbent paper towel and do it twice or thrice.  seems to mop up all the finger schmutz as well. as i said, the weather here is so dry, the wood just soaks it up.

btw my hands suffer the same malady from this dry air, i get these fissures in my skin at the finger tips that i have to close up with locktite gel.  i've tried everything under the sun (lotion, band-aids, medicine).  an old time construction guy turned me on to the lock-tite trick, nothing else works.  don't wanna let my fingerboards suffer the same fate...

[cozmik_cowboy]

well i don't put very much on, i work it in with an absorbent paper towel and do it twice or thrice.  seems to mop up all the finger schmutz as well. as i said, the weather here is so dry, the wood just soaks it up.

btw my hands suffer the same malady from this dry air, i get these fissures in my skin at the finger tips that i have to close up with locktite gel.  i've tried everything under the sun (lotion, band-aids, medicine).  an old time construction guy turned me on to the lock-tite trick, nothing else works.  don't wanna let my fingerboards suffer the same fate...

I use Gorilla super glue - and yeah, the thicker brush-on gel is easier to use.

Peter

[pauldo]

<veering off topic>
The skin on my fingers splits regularly.  Painful.
The splits usually occur mostly on the thumbs and on the edge/ corner of the fingernail.  I found that the splits start on what is dead skin, when the split progresses into live skin the pain begins.

These days I stay ahead of it by using a nail clipper to periodically cut the dead skin back... it has greatly reduced the splitting.

Paul (who’s initials ARE “PhD” but am in no way a medical doctor)

[BeenDown139]

since we've veered slightly, let's roll with it...

These days I stay ahead of it by using a nail clipper to periodically cut the dead skin back... it has greatly reduced the splitting.

i've never noticed dead skin around the splits, i'll have to be more observant next time it happens.  it seems to go in fits and starts, last week i had 4, this week, none.  for some reason it's only my right hand this year.  i am on my 3rd bottle of locktite so far this winter...

btw, this is one of the few indignities that that old age hasn't visited upon me, it's been happening since i was a yoot yout yute.

[paulman]

This would used to happen on my thumbs when I worked in a dry environment handling a lot of paper.  Try to use a moisturizer on the thumbs and that may help the painful, painful cracking.  I fell you on this one.


Love the lemon oiling of a fretboard!  Still have the same bottle from 2006 and its amazing!