Polish for a bass

[Kenny_K75]

Does anyone know of a good polish for a bass.
I know there are specialist guitar polishes but is there any highstreet
polish that can be used instead???

[Tinman]

Meguiars. Fender market it as guitar polish but AFAIK it's the same stuff as used for cars. You can get it in Halfords

[Kenny_K75]

Which one exactly.. would you recommend.

Meguiars Scratch X
Meguiars Deep Crystal Carnauba Car Wax
Meguiars Deep Crystal Car Polish
Meguiars Nxt Generation Tech Car Wax
Meguiars Gold Class Clear Coat Liquid Car Wax

Thanks for this help.

[Moos3h]

What do you want to do?

Is it scratched/scuffed? If so then a bit of Scratch X followed by Gold Class would do the job.

I used Autoglym Super Resin polish. Fabbo.

[GreeneKing]

Polish for a bass?

Basowa evidently

[7string]

As long as the polish doesn't contains silicones then you're fine.

Remember to give the bass a good clean first so you don't polish the dirt in (seen this happen before!).

[Tinman]

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='653676' date='Nov 13 2009, 03:12 PM']Polish for a bass?

Basowa evidently[/quote]


To the OP, I got mine from Fender so I don't know what it equates to in the car polish market but as 7string says, no silicones.

[OutToPlayJazz]

Final polish coming out of the Status factory is good old pledge. Great for poly gloss finishes. If you have a scratched up scratch plate on say a Fender, T-cut and car polishes work well, but don't get T-Cut on the body. Could be disastrous!

[pete.young]

It depends what the finish of the bass that you're trying to polish is.

All the above recommendations assume that you're trying to polish a cellulose finish - actually there's no need to spend serious money on megiuars because t-cut is just as good - my hand-made cellulose finish bouzouki was cleaned up with t-cut and it looks just fine, 30 years later.

I don't think it's gonna work on a Warwick!

[john_the_bass]

I use Gibson polish on nitro finishes and good old Mr Sheen on poly

[Moos3h]

Boring but true, microfibre cloth and fresh (or not) breath. Seriously, unless the guitar is caked, it brings it up a treat.

[allighatt0r]

I'd love to let one of these loose on a bass.... it would really cut down the elbow grease!!!

[Stacker]

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='653676' date='Nov 13 2009, 03:12 PM']Polish for a bass?

Basowa evidently[/quote]
I thought it was 'Bszwychii' ??

I jest, but that's what I thought the OP meant, too!

[7string]

[quote name='Moos3h' post='654140' date='Nov 13 2009, 11:35 PM']Boring but true, microfibre cloth and fresh (or not) breath. Seriously, unless the guitar is caked, it brings it up a treat.[/quote]

You can use saliva on really bad areas. Saliva tends to cut through any dirt. If you really don't want to do that try de-ionised water. Garages used to sell it for topping up car batteries and it's the stuff you can put in irons.

[Deep Thought]

I use Kyser Klassics 'Dr.Stringfellow' guitar polish , which I got from one of our local emporia. Does the job fine.

[henry norton]

[quote name='7string' post='654476' date='Nov 14 2009, 03:05 PM']You can use saliva on really bad areas. Saliva tends to cut through any dirt. If you really don't want to do that try de-ionised water. Garages used to sell it for topping up car batteries and it's the stuff you can put in irons.[/quote]
I knew a woman who restored violins and spit was one of the most important substances she used when it came to the finish. Yuk! TBH, I don't see much point in spending twice the money on half the amount of 'special guitar polish' when it's probably just car polish in another tin. Mind you, I'm not sure I'd use either if I was cleaning up a pre CBS Jazz

Edited November 14, 2009 by henry norton

[bh2]

I'd like to find the stuff that was plastered over my 78 Ray when I bought it... a sort of sweet , waxey smell it had. I remember this smell from guitar shops of yore but have never found out what it was!

[The Burpster]

I use the PRS stuff, its really good, but also Ernie Ball and Gibson make very good stuff. If I'm doing a repair job I use Autoglym (Maguires similar stuff!)to get a real finish then finally with the PRS polish....

[franzbassist]

Ken Smith makes some very good [url="http://www.kensmithbasses.com/accessories/smithpolish.html"]polishes[/url].

[4-string-thing]

you mean you can polish a bass.....

[mrcrow]

anything that mrscrow has under the sink

[retroman]

I've been using Autoglym Super Resin Polish on my basses for absolutely years. Always brings them up like new, be they nitro, or poly finish