Guitars have now become very popular musical instruments in the world, but most people don’t do guitar cleaning routinely. Many people introduce music to their children with guitars as their first instrument, particularly acoustic guitars. Even so, although many people succeed in learning how to play guitars well, their guitars often get damaged fast due to seldom cleaned. This is why in addition to playing guitars, we also have to know the steps of properly cleaning and maintaining our guitars to keep their quality.
The following are some tips that you can do yourself at home to clean and maintain your guitar’s condition. Before cleaning your guitar, it is best to prepare these things:
- Metal sponge grade 000, which is the softest
- Specialty masking tape for paints
- Dry cloth
- Special guitar polish oil, purchasable at musical instrument stores
- Tissue paper or used newspapers
The steps to clean your guitar can be started after you get the above ready. The following are the steps to clean your guitar at home:
- First, cover the frets with masking tape. Then gently rub the guitar’s neck and body with dry cloth. Make sure to exercise care not to scratch the guitar.
- Next, rub the guitar wholly with another dry cloth which is made damp with a few drops of guitar polish. Do not use too much guitar polish as it could instead weaken the gluing on frets.
- And then, clean the strings by rubbing it with tissue paper or used newspapers made damp with a little water.
- If you are cleaning an acoustic guitar, you may also have to clean the seams between the string setting mechanism on the guitar head. Remember to be careful in reinstalling the string setting mechanism. If you install it with lacking tension, the guitar’s sound quality can be influenced.
Those are the steps you can follow to clean your guitar yourself at home easily. May this article be of help for you.
