Kotton Klean

[steelbuttplate]

JYD was talking about using this stuff on his Victrola's last week, and I ordered some. Would this old guitar be a use for it ?. It's a '68 Framus, (Texan) 12 string made in Bavaria. I can't do anything to hurt the original finish. Maybe just pledge?

[Junk Yard Dog]

Kotton Klenser, my hands still smell of it from the Victrola I just scrubbed clean with it. I have no idea what the finish is on a vintage Guitar, if it has a shellac finish like my Victrolas ( and Russian Mosins) then it will work very well. That guitar doesn't look like it was abandoned in a corner of the attic for 80 years while it served as a public toilet for mice. KK is for the really filthy jobs, it will work on light mess also, but why go to the expense of a professional cleaning product when a slightly damp rag with dawn dishwashing detergent on it will do the job. KK is a process, it's not just one product, the cleanser lefts the dirt, then you dry the wood and apply the wood feeder, this shit can create miracles on dry wood. It darkens scrapes and scratches so they are less noticeable, and brings back the woods natural color. Final product is the polish made with beeswax. Most Victrolas I get look like crap right out of the box, or off the flea market table, dark, smelly, moldy, stained, KK products take that, and make it into a $500 or more machine once I am done

[Junk Yard Dog]

Oh yea, no product is going to repair the cracks in the finish, only a refinish will do that, and then the value to collectors goes out the window. Patina is king these days, old has to look old or it isn't. On the Victrola I just sold the buyer insisted that I not replace the badly faded, stained and slightly damaged felt on the turntable, and I can forget about selling any machine that has been refinished. It's not like the machine was cheap either.