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Rice to clean guitars?
Need to clean the innards of a very old guitar. I have vacuum cleaner attachments. But I have also read in a number of places that pouring rice (uncooked!!!) into the soundhole & swishing it around for a while helps, idea being I guess that dirt & dust will be dislodged and adhere to the rice when it's poured out.
Does anybody actually do this? Does it work? Does all the rice come out or do you end up with a lifetime's worth of old rice bits stuck in various crevices of the guitar? |
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The last one I did was a particularly dirty arch top body and the final results were everything I could have hoped for. I used two "applications" of a pound of white rice, lots of shaking, followed with the air blow out procedure. |
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I tried it one time and it didn't really work. It was more trouble getting the rice back out than it would have been to clean it by other means, and it left white powder all over in there, and several grains wedged into the lining kerfs.
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sounds like a reasonably safe idea - sort of like ultra gentle sandblasting
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I use the rice trick from time to time, and sometimes go even closer to the edge of insanity:
If that seems a bit much, here's the full explanation, over at FRETS.COM: http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Luth...riceclean.html
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Ok honestly it does seem a tad on the excessive side. Are you sure that's baking soda Frank? |
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Rice is good, I have a plastic media blaster in the shop, I distill some of the beads and use them instead, same close the sound hole and shake process.
Steve
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BROWN RICE! BROWN RICE! BROWN RICE!
White rice leaves a white dust inside. Whatever dust brown rice leaves blends with the wood. When you're through shaking the rice around, shake it down to a shoulder near the sound hole. Vacuum it out with the crevice tool. Jon Z. |
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I was wondering about that, thanks! |
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works well on Chinese guitars
have used rice to clean up a couple of guitars with excellent results. |
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Although some might cry racist....that was pretty funny.
Last edited by Kerbie; 01-17-2018 at 07:00 PM. Reason: Removed masked profanity |