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Re: Wood cleaning question

Author: Shoko2
Date: 2014-02-25 11:04

I suggest taking the whole instrument apart. Get a sheet of paper and label every rod you take out and where it goes. Don't bend anything. Next is heat up some water and put some dish washing soap in a bowl and get an old toothbrush. Use the toothbrush to clean off all the tone holes. After letting the bore dry out for an hour or two. Take some light key oil (I used yamaha key oil light) and oil everything. Take a feather and oil the inside. After letting the wood soak the oil up for a day or so, take a clean cotton cloth and start wiping off excess oil, by this point the wood would have absorbed the oil and hopefully you have that beautiful dark grenadilla look on your instrument. Make sure you take cue tips and clean the tone holes and make sure get any extra oil off of the chimneys of the tone holes, getting oil on cork pads is never a good thing. After that, reattach the keys and you should be good to go. If you can, try to hand buff all the keys and even try to get inbetween the posts. Good luck!

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