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Rob Laing

"You owe your guitar the chance to be its best": How to clean and polish your guitar frets a better way

MusicNomad guitar fret cleaning.

It's ok if you put it off – I've done it too, but sooner or later you will need to clean and polish your guitar frets. You owe your guitar the chance to be its best, and grimy oxidised frets are not going to get there.

Even the cleanest hands shed material when playing guitar and it doesn't just end up on your strings; oils and sweat tarnish the frets underneath too. So the next time you change your strings, use it as an excuse for a fret polish – and I'd like to introduce you to two different ways to get great results and perhaps even less of a chore, both with different needs in mind.

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