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Originally Posted by Jason
Yup. I am pretty sure that Fret Doctor itself is just white mineral oil with a scent added to it anyway. I just use some "lemon" oil that I picked up for cheap at the grocery store.  |
The guy that makes the stuff swears that it's an exotic formulation of some sort and not mineral oil based.
I've got a 1939 Epiphone Emperor (non-electric) that has had the mineral oil treatment all its life and the fretboard looks gorgeous. I have no idea how much better it could look with "fret doctor" but I'm guessing that a generous bottle of mineral oil purchased in 1939 for a few cents would have been enough for 70 years worth of treatment.
Honestly, virtually any oil will work on fretboards -- Neal Schon swears he uses salami <G>. Not HIS Salami, I'm thinking -- the store-bought kind. Other people I know use and swear by olive oil. Why not?
Spend what you want to spend, believe whatever advertising copy you want to believe -- but so far there's no evidence whatsoever that you need anything more exotic than plain old mineral oil.