| If his fingers are lifting colour off the fingerboard, it's probably "ebonized" (dyed black).
A good hard-drying, non-penetrating oil finish can be wiped on/rubbed off. It will seal the fingerboard, and stop the dye from bleeding.
They're hard to find, though. Most oil finishes ("Lemon Oil" products, Linseed Oil, Danish Oil, etc.) are designed with furniture in mind, and intended to penetrate deep and stay wet- not good for tone. You want something that will harden up to seal the wood, without gooping deep into the fibres.
A proper polymerized Tung Oil is just the ticket for fingerboards. It's thick, food safe (don't laugh, you're going to be getting it on your fingertips), doesn't penetrate too deep, hardens up nicel and fast. I get mine from Lee Valley (I think they do mail order into the States). It's the real deal, however, buyer
beware as most other "Tung Oil" products are actually Danish Oil in disguise.
If your buddy can't find that, a good substitute is Tru-Oil gunstock finish. G&L use it on their oiled necks, so it should be good enough for your friend's Tennesee...
--- On Thu, 6/18/09, klsluder <klsluder@hpcisp.com> wrote:
From: klsluder <klsluder@hpcisp.com>
Subject: [ChristianGuitar] double neck
To: christianguitar@welovegod.org
Received: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 8:38 PM
Thought you all might find this interesting. Our bass player bought a Tennessee brand guitar with a bass neck and a six string electric neck. It is a relatively inexpensive instrument but pretty sharp. The bass pickups sounded surprisingly good. Not quite the tone of his Fender but pretty close. The electric seemed a
little tinny - which was probably due as much to him using my processor patches set up for the Parker as it was his pickups. Can't say for sure until he gets an A/B switch to use with his processor. Otherwise it seemed pretty solid.
The big down side was that Scott commented the strings were no good on the electric and were turning his fingers black. I have a Washburn that does the same thing and it ain't the strings fault. The problem seems to be with the cheap quality of the rosewood fretboard. He commented the same thing I noticed on the Washburn, that he could feel his fingers dragging across the grain. Until I put Elixirs on I couldn't get a week out of a set of strings. I suspect he will have the same problem.
Is there a way to seal the grain so it doesn't come off on your fingers?
Peace
Kevin
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