gtr oxidation :'(

[MemoGtr]

hey my gtr gets oxidated pretty fast
what do you guys do to keep them clean and non-oxidated??

[AlChuck]

You mean your strings, right? And they get oxidized, not oxidated.

Wipe them with a cloth after playing. Not much else you can do. Some people use alchohol or some other fluid. I've heard of people taking them off, putting them in a pot of boiling water, then putting them back on. All these ways will help prevent a buildup of too much skin oil and dirt and grunge, which I guess can help slow down the oxidation of the metal surface.

Me, I wipe them if they get too nasty, and then just change them when they start to get too funky.

[Dr_simon]

GHS Fast-Fret is not bad, I de- gunk fret boards with Lemon oil every 2 months or so to

[MemoGtr]

douh! thanks for the word correction.
hey i would care if it were only on the strings but the hardware is also getting oxidized

[zer0sig]

do you live in an area with a lot of humidity? i know that mexico has a lot of very dry areas, but i know there are some more swampy spots as well, and rainforest-type spots.

my experience tells me that guitars left sitting out have oxidized strings much more quickly than ones sitting in cases. how is the room, humiditywise? high humidity? loose water particles often? i don't seem to have the trouble some of my friends do, and my guitars tend to stay in-case.

my solutions tend to involve GHS fast-fret, as mentioned earlier (a kind of mild wax i use both all over the fretboard when changing strings and on strings after playing), and when a fretboard is really gunked-up, taking a mild steel wool and cleaning the board (first rubbing crosswise, in the directions the frets point, then nut-to-bridge to match the grain of the board), and when my fretboard starts getting light-colored/dry, i like olive oil for treating it (a cheap extra-virgin olive oil works well, as they have little scent to them on the whole).

using fast fret regularly, i almost never have to change strings, though i generally prefer to do so once a string breaks, as i only break one every few months or so, usually during tuning, since i'm not much of a string-bender (i bend strings often, just not wildly as a great blues man might)

[MemoGtr]

do you live in an area with a lot of humidity? i know that mexico has a lot of very dry areas, but i know there are some more swampy spots as well, and rainforest-type spots.

the rainforest thing is in the south part. i live in the north almost in the border with the us so its pretty dry. i left my guitar in a stand and gets oxidized within 2 months or so. but when i put it in the gig bag and then took it out 2 weeks after and evertyhing was almost useless. i'll get new strings thats not a probelm. but what about the hardware?? the pickups are making me worry

i'll get a case and a bottle of fast fret

thanks for the replies