Take care of your instrument instructions from the Gibson System for Guitar circa 1939.
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Take care of your instrument instructions from the Gibson System for Guitar circa 1939.
Things haven't changed much, have they.
A little fuzzy for my old eyes but it looks like 1939. Didn't the earlier instructions recommended cleaning with gasoline?
Here is Darryl Wolfe describing an old Gibson publication from the 20's if I recall.
Love the 1920s instructions, and the recipe for the polish, too. Sitting around the wood stove or fireplace on a cold winter's night, shining up the old mandolin—KABOOM!
Polish recipe :- GIBSON POLISH FORMULA :-
1 tablespoon of lemon compound or lemon oil.
1 tablespoon of parafine oil.
1 quart of gasoline.
One QUART of gas. ???. That's 2 pints !. The lemon & paraffin would be lost in the mix. I'm wondering if it should have been a quarter of a tablespoonful of gas. to thin it down a bit. Using 2 pints of gas,you might as well forget anything the lemon & paraffin might do. They'd be so dilute as to do nothing !.
The lemon compound / oil was to give the mixture a nice aroma,mixed with 2 pints of gas,do you reckon you'd smell it ?,:confused:
Ivan;)
They call it "Jim Beam" ~o)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ivan Kelsall
I think that may be where all of the "missing" Loars went...Quote:
Love the 1920s instructions, and the recipe for the polish, too. Sitting around the wood stove or fireplace on a cold winter's night, shining up the old mandolin—KABOOM!
Kirk
I re-strung my Lebeda mandolin yesterday. New strings / polish the frets with a Silver polishing cloth to shine 'em up / a wipe over the f/board with Teak oil -wipe on,wipe off / polish the body with Beeswax furniture cream - it looks like new & sound terrific !,
Ivan