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  1. Orange Glow wood furniture 2-in-1 Clean & Polish = Best thing you can treat a fingerboard with. Let sit for at least 5 mins to moisturize wood. If you have a microfiber rag (or glass/electronics cleaning rag) squirt some on and feel free to do it with guitar stings on because it is essentially Fast Fret for strings and will clean them/make them glide without oxidation. This is made for un-finished furniture and perfect for Ebony or Rosewood fingerboards. Another thing to remember with Ebony fingerboards is that dabbing a little distilled water on the fingerboard between string changes will help moisturize the board and give you an indication of how dry the wood is by how quickly or not it absorbs. Use distilled water only though - and not with strings on bc then you get the oxidization effect. Lemon oil can actually replace the natural oils from Ebony Fingerboards and can actually end up drying them out more in the long run. If you have your guitars in a room you might want to get a cheap vaporizer and put it into a power strep so you can just hit the switch when you go to bed at night (would not need to be all the time but a couple times a week at least especially in climate controlled environment and in winter). Keeping guitars in a humid environment will prevent cracking and ensure a nice tone as there is definitely a noticeable tone difference when guitars (especially acoustics) are dry. If you get a crack or multiple cracks as ebony can do in dry environment, don't freak out, hydrate the fingerboard and in time they will not be noticeable. Lemon oil can get in the cracks and make them worse so I highly recommend the Orange Glow instead. Distilled water too. Guitars can become dried out and sound nasty and crack, just like cigars if not kept in humidor. But you can restore cigars by putting them in a humidor and giving it time - same is true with a guitar.
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