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Cleaning permanent marker off a fret board


Jono Bolton
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Yep, you read that right, I've been given a Marlin Sidewinder (yep, a guitar!) to clean up by a mate, and someone's drawn on the fret board with a marker. I've had a go at it with lemon oil but that's not done much, I would normally go for nail polish remover for marker pen but I don't know how that would affect the rosewood as it's quite a porous wood. Any suggestions?

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Nothing. The solvent in the marker will have caused the dye in the marker to soak into the wood fibers themselves. It can't be cleaned off. The best thing to do is to take the same dye that classical bass luthiers use to cover the streaks in ebony fingerboards to give them a uniform appearance. Yes, it will be uniformly darker, which may or may not be a good thing depending on how the rest of the guitar is finished, but that is the reason they are called "permanent" markers.

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