Basic Guitar Maintenance

Guitar Maintenance

This premise is sort based on the old adage “take care of your heart and it will take care of you.” Grant it this is not as dire but there is a nugget of truth in here. Perform basic guitar maintenance on your guitar and you can expect a great and long life from your instrument. You would be shocked how many people ignore guitar maintenance. The really sad thing is this is one of the simplest ways to keep you guitar in great shape and maintain a good sound.

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Here is a great case in point. Do you have any idea how many people I have played with over the years when done playing their guitar just toss it in the case. You may think “so what’s the big deal?” Well let me put it this way. Have you ever gone to a museum? If they have older artifacts what don’t they let you do? Touch anything. That is what they will not let you do. The reason for this is because of the oils on your hands they can over time damage these items. This is no less true for your instrument. To help protect your guitar and strings for that matter when you are done playing is to wipe down the instrument. It doesn’t take long and will preserve your guitar and string.
You need to have a regular schedule for replacing your strings. This is very important to maintaining a good sound and believe it or not protecting your fretboard on the neck. How does replacing your strings protect your fretboard? Well just like the oils on your hands you have dirt that can get trapped on the stings. That dirt over time will build up on the fretboard and over time can damage the wood. I have seen fretboards with caked on dirt and it is not pretty.

Another schedule that should be administered is a cleaning or polishing schedule. There are tons of good guitar polishes and neck preservers on the mark. These are great to protect your instrument from dirt and harmful oils. I would recommend every two to three months doing an all over polish and cleaning.

These are some of the basics to guitar maintenance. These things are easy to do and should be done. Do not blow these schedules off or over time you may be sorry. There are other maintenance items we can perform such as adjusting the neck, intonation and string height. We will be getting into these in other articles but for now start on first base.

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