Dusting instruments

[MoonBassAlpha]

I keep most of my instruments on wall hangers. What are the best dusting implements? Normal cloth dusters tend to snag on the strings and other snaggy bits.

[TheGreek]

Wife/ girlfriend/ significant other???

[Bolo]

A soft lint free microfiber towel works well for me

[RhysP]

Microfibre cloths.

[Grangur]

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Microfibre cloths.
[/quote]... and a paintbrush to get into the fiddly bits.

[Bolo]

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... and a paintbrush to get into the fiddly bits.
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I have a shaving brush for this. Hardly ever use it thanks to the towel getting nearly everywhere.

[KingBollock]

A can of compressed air is brilliant for getting the dust out of bridges, tuners and from under the strings.

[BrunoBass]

I find an old t-shirt works well.

[dyerseve]

I just use a vacuum cleaner with a brush attachment. Use a paintbrush for the bridge to free the dust so the vacuum can do the rest.

[seashell]

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Wife/ girlfriend/ significant other???
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Mick! I'm surprised at you! :-0

[Krysbass]

As said - a micro-fibre cloth is great, but for getting dust out of the bridge, under the strings on the headstock and other hard to reach places; I use a synthetic-bristled half-inch wide paintbrush.

[MoonBassAlpha]

A paintbrush it is then folks. Thanks for the input kind folks!

[Mudpup]

Green scourer from the kitchen - oops, wrong thread, that should have been in the roadworn one thats kicking about at the moment :-)

[paul_5]

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[Geek99]

Relic finish - like the wire brush

[Rikki_Sixx]

Do most people just give it a wipe (ooh err)? I used to spray on the stuff my mum used to dust the TV but a guitarist friend bollocked me for that! 😆

[Bolo]

For a proper cleaning I add a few drops of Dr.Duck's Axwax. Works great on body, hardware, strings, ebony or rosewood fingerboard, in fact everything except the stingray neck (gunstock oil/wax).

[dmccombe7]

make up brush (courtesy of my wife i might add)

Gibson guitar polish and soft polishing cloth on the painted or lacquered basses.
Briwax on my Warwick Thumb.

Dave

[A.G.E.N.T.E.]

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I just use a vacuum cleaner with a brush attachment. Use a paintbrush for the bridge to free the dust so the vacuum can do the rest.
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I also use this hi-tech solution

[NJE]

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There is an old Billy Connoly joke there.....

[smaz]

Well, you can't dust for vomit...

[smaz]

My favourite out of the ones I've tried is the Dunlop Formula 65 - just seemed to do the best job & leave the nicest finish.

A friend of mine who went to ACM had lessons with a guitar tech as part of his course. The tech just used bog standard Pledge for cleaning guitars - he said we used it for cleaning expensive wooden furniture, what's the difference with a guitar?

[MoonBassAlpha]

That Dunlop stuff works really well for most finishes, but disagreed REALLY badly with my '74 Gibson SG, so I'd advise trying it on a really inconspicuous area on anything old or nitro finished.
I just found a small nozzle/brush attachment from a long deceased vacuum cleaner that I'll try next weekend. It may prove just the thing.

[KingBollock]

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1488289714' post='3247558']
make up brush (courtesy of my wife i might add)

Gibson guitar polish and soft polishing cloth on the painted or lacquered basses.
Briwax on my Warwick Thumb.

Dave
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I bought a cheap set of makeup brushes recently, for adding dust to things (weathering powders for models) and my wife has asked me to get her some because they're actually quite good.