The fingerboard oil survey

[Delberthot]

I went into my local DIY shop in around 1990 and asked for a tin of lemon oil. I still have it and I still use it but maybe once every few years if the fingerboard is looking particularly grubby.

I actually had no idea what it was until a couple of years ago so checked the label and it's lemongrass oil.

My wife hates it, it smells like that perfume that old ladies wear

[Hellzero]

10 hours ago, Fingul said:

There you go again, not giving credit where it's due! 

The integrated circuit was invented by ze Germans and da Brits. 

Good ol' collaboration. 😎

[Hellzero]

11 hours ago, Fingul said:

There you go again, not giving credit where it's due! 

The integrated circuit was invented by ze Germans and da Brits. 

And with the usual Brits successful story :

"Another early proponent of the concept was Geoffrey Dummer (1909–2002), a radar scientist working for the Royal Radar Establishment of the British Ministry of Defence. Dummer presented the idea to the public at the Symposium on Progress in Quality Electronic Components in Washington, D.C. on 7 May 1952.[7] He gave many symposia publicly to propagate his ideas and unsuccessfully attempted to build such a circuit in 1956."

Meanwhile, in the Silicon Valley :

"Newly employed by Texas Instruments, Jack Kilby recorded his initial ideas concerning the integrated circuit in July 1958, successfully demonstrating the first working example of an integrated circuit on 12 September 1958. In his patent application of 6 February 1959, Kilby described his new device as "a body of semiconductor material … wherein all the components of the electronic circuit are completely integrated"."

Nice try @Fingul !

[Stub Mandrel]

What has the EU ever given electronics?

The SCART Plug, that's what.

[Owen]

I used Lemon Oil on a brand new fingerboard. It did something horrible to the frets. I needed a full fret workover polish thing (I am aware that there is probably a good word for this) from a tech. I do not know if it was a dodgy batch or what. I will never touch Lemon Oil again.

[Stub Mandrel]

59 minutes ago, owen said:

It did something horrible to the frets.

Can you explain? Did they discolour or move or something else?

[Owen]

It was a brand new neck and the frets became very rough and scratchy.

[Mokl]

4 hours ago, owen said:

It was a brand new neck and the frets became very rough and scratchy.

Is it possible the frets hadn't been polished properly? That reminds me of my guitar tech days when I used to dress frets often, and remembering how critical the final polish is in alleviating that scratchy feeling. Stainless steel frets were considerably harder work and as I encountered them less often would find I'd sometimes underestimated and have to repeat the polishing stage after restringing and testing. 

[Hellzero]

7 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

What has the EU ever given electronics?

The SCART Plug, that's what.

The CD invented by Philips in Holland, not Sony in Japan.

[Stub Mandrel]

9 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

The CD invented by Philips in Holland, not Sony in Japan.

CD? What's a CD? Didn't they go out with the wax cylinder?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Hellzero]

The internal combustion engine still used today invented by the local (to me) Belgian Etienne LENOIR. And certainly the most polluting idea ever !

[Owen]

3 hours ago, Mokl said:

Is it possible the frets hadn't been polished properly? That reminds me of my guitar tech days when I used to dress frets often, and remembering how critical the final polish is in alleviating that scratchy feeling. Stainless steel frets were considerably harder work and as I encountered them less often would find I'd sometimes underestimated and have to repeat the polishing stage after restringing and testing. 

No, it was fine and dandy before I put Lemon oil on.

[Stub Mandrel]

31 minutes ago, owen said:

No, it was fine and dandy before I put Lemon oil on.

I wonder if the frets had some sort of coating the oil washed off.

I have seen badly finished instruments with lacquered necks where a coat of lacquer has been left on the frets!