Polish

I always like to keep my mandolin nice and polished. I have been using Martin i think and i havn't been real real happy with it. This week i am going to pick some of the Gibson polish up at my local music store. Has anyone ever used it? All i have heard is good things about it. I know its just polish but a clean and nice looking instrument is really important to me

Not as important as sound though. A pair of J-74's takes care of that problem real easy.
What do you'll recommend?

[J. Mark Lane]

Theees one: http://tinyurl.com/52vuy

Mark

[doublestop]

I swear by Petro's finish restorer and polish.

[John Flynn]

Ironic that you would start a thread about polish and show a picture of Monroe and his beat-up Loar. I wonder what polish he used?

[Jonathan James]

I think he used dirt and spit.

[Ken Berner]

Mando Johnny, I think Mr. Monroe used "elbow grease"; he certainly was slick!

[futrconslr]

Monroe used a product called "Monroe's Super Grundgy Deluxe" #It is made of a COMBINATION of spit, sweat, tears, dirt and elbow grease.

I use Gibson's polish. #It works well and its easy to use.

Not that Monroe actually cried. That ingredient is imported and is used figuratively as it relates to Monroe.

[J. Mark Lane]

No, those were the tears of his girlfriends.

[futrconslr]

budda ching

Good one J. Mark.

Im pretty sure ole Monroe used that spit and greasin and whatnot you all are talking about.:D
Thanks for the replys.:laugh:

[Andyp]

Don't forget you have to apply the Monroe polish with a pocketknife, and you have to put a little extra on the headstock logo area.
Does anybody know what is in that new stewmac polish? Does it have carnauba wax?

[AeroJoe]

I love the OLD Martin polish...whatever it was they used in those white and blue bottles...had the image of the "hand across the soundhole" that Martin used as a logo back then on it. Found an entire, dust-covered, un-opened box of them at a music store near Moorehead City that went out of business...bought every bottle...
Since this polish was suddenly discontinued after 20-some years ( I can remember buying it back in the '70's...) Martin changed their polish and it was made by Guardsman. The same stuff you can by at your local furniture store. ...this first attempt, if I remember correctly, caused alot of people to really get upset...the stuff was almost impossible to get off your instrument. A frend of mine used it on his '44 'bone and liked to have never got it off. It reacted very badly with vintage finishes. It clouded up white-ish and he had to have it buffed off. Martin evidently got a ton of negative feedback about the stuff, and had the formula changed again, but still the product is made by Guardsman. It does seem to work somewhat better.

But to me, nothing beats that old original Martin polish in those white & blue bottles...the stuff is likely mostly water, but it is wipe on, wipe off, no residue and leaves a very clean, slick feel, especially on the back of a mandolin neck...

[John Flynn]

Don't forget you have to apply the Monroe polish with a pocketknife, and you have to put a little extra on the headstock logo area.

I prefer to apply it with a fireplace poker. It has more "chop" to it!

I went ahead and picked up the Gibson set. It's the Luthiers Choice stuff. Great stuff.

[Tim]

This week i am going to pick some of the Gibson polish up at my local music store.

What is your local music store? #According to your profile you live close to my in-laws. #It would be nice to have a music store to visit while my wife visits her family.