Today I...

Today I....

change guitar strings and cleaned my acoustic guitar!!! weee!!!

Well, what made this time soo special compared to the hundreds of times of me replacing my guitar strings>?? I cleaned the whole guitar body!!!

Before that...and why is that such a big deal?? Well...before this, i NEVER bothered to really2 clean my guitar or maintain it from scratches of watsover..When the neck gets broken, repair, when the wood cracked, put in some wood filling, when the guitar strap connector came off, just repair it..So yea, that acoustic Yamaha of mine has gone through all sort of pain.. miahahaha. and i never bother to take care of it as long as it nails it's responsibilities.. teheee


My Yamaha Acoustic Guitar. Bought it for rm500 back in August 1998 by my dad, used by the whole family mainly my elder sister who's like me like to do acoustic covers and create original materials(me less in that) and post them online. Back den it was Xanga blog and (shyt i forgot the name of that music website) it has charts and she was somewhere behind switchfoot in the leaderboard. LOL. Now the guitars' price is around rm300 at Lee music Centre Hock Lee. And now the guitar belongs to me since my dad bought a new acoustic guitar which is wayy cooler than this yamaha. I hatethe new ashton guitar, nice body but not the type of sound and neck feel that i want. xD. So since lately, the yamaha is definitely mine! xD

So today i went shopping with alex bought Ernie Ball Xtra Light Strings and Fast Fret to maintain my new strings, i wanna maintain them this time(for the first time). Alex taught me this NEW habit to take good care of guitars...HAHAHAHA.. SO, FIRST TIME TAKING GOOD CARE ON MY OWN GUITAR...



So i took off all the old strings, all 6 of ems...Reason why i bought Fast fret is to clean the strings and the fretboard...BUT!!!! MY OH ZZZOMG!!!! i just realised today that my yamaha's fret board is soooooo mouldy, dusty, dirty!!!! It has this thick2 coklat2 substance on it. EUWWW!!(i wonder, all this while i play the guitar touching comfy2 cushion mould on the fretboard..errr...dont wanna think any further..maybe it's just a way of my guitar showing revenge for not taking good care of it..) hahahahahah!!! So i had to scrub it off, brush it off, dry it off, den scrab even more without damaging the fretboard and luckily it works!! my oh my...how come i never knew..So the cleaning process of my acoustic guitar took me longer time than expected!!! HAHHAHAHA...coz i NEVERRR cleaned the fretboard my entire life!!! all i do i just dust of the loose dust if there's any. LOL.

Once done getting rid of the heavy duty dirt on the guitar, i start polishing the fretboard with fast fret. It a white mineral oil thingy dat u glide on the strings and board to clean off and polish at same time. Den start pasang string..

End result?? My Yamaha guitar felt 10 years younger!! LOL.. it's 11 years old already.